Editing She Bop (section)

== Recording and composition ==
"She Bop" moves at a [[tempo]] of 137 beats per minute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BPM for "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper |url=https://songbpm.com/@cyndi-lauper/she-bop-3f827e3a-b14b-49c9-8259-8ba03a08a249 |access-date=January 12, 2025 |website=Song BPM}}</ref> The song was recorded at [[Record Plant|Record Plant Studios]] in [[New York City]] and was produced by [[Rick Chertoff]].<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=[[She's So Unusual]] |type=album liner notes |others=[[Cyndi Lauper]] |publisher=[[Portrait Records]] |year=1983 |id=38930}}</ref> Lauper said she recorded the song naked in an interview with ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2022 |title=Cyndi Lauper {{!}} “She Bop” was released as a single 38 years ago this month! |url=https://www.instagram.com/cyndilauper/p/CfuVQDzpW6i/ |access-date=January 12, 2025 |via=[[Instagram]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/archive/peoplearchive.php/Cyndi_Lauper/biography/|title=Cyndi Lauper Biography|work=Monsters and Critics|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829165412/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/archive/peoplearchive.php/Cyndi_Lauper/biography/|archive-date=August 29, 2009}}</ref>

=== Lyrical content ===
The track is an ode to [[masturbation]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Grow |first=Kory |date=September 17, 2015 |title=PMRC's 'Filthy 15': Where Are They Now? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/pmrcs-filthy-15-where-are-they-now-60601/cyndi-lauper-she-bop-2-179572/ |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=January 12, 2025 |website=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> It was included on the [[Parents Music Resource Center]]'s "Filthy Fifteen" list in 1984 due to it being considered "profane or sexually explicit";<ref name=":0" /> this led to the creation of the [[Parental Advisory]] sticker. Lauper has stated that finding a copy of gay men's magazine ''[[Blueboy (magazine)|Blueboy]]'' lying around in the recording studio provided the impetus for writing "She Bop".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/cyndi-lauper-she-bop-_n_5083703.html|title=Cyndi Lauper's 'She Bop' Was Inspired By Gay Porn Magazine Blueboy |website=[[HuffPost]] |date=February 2, 2016 |access-date=September 18, 2016}}</ref> The magazine is mentioned in the first verse.<ref name="BACAF">{{cite web |url=https://www.bacaf.org/history |title=Blueboy History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Blueboy Archives & Cultural Arts Foundation |access-date=18 January 2023}}</ref>