Cyndi Lauper Is All About Chappell Roan’s ‘Performance Art’ Style: ‘You Know I Love Those Visual Things’

There are so many reasons Cyndi Lauper loves Chappell Roan. But if you’re looking for a starting point, it’s “the hair alone.” That’s what Lauper told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live on Sunday (Sept. 15) when asked about the mutual admiration society the “She Bop” 1980s legend has with the rising “Good Luck, Babe” singer.

“And the fact that it’s performance art,” continued Lauper, who made a name in the early 1980s with her outrageous sartorial sense and quirky sensibility in videos from her 1983 She’s So Unusual album that helped push the boundaries of what artists could do in the then-new music video format. “And it’s visual, it’s so visual. You know I love those visual things, obviously,” added Lauper.

Asked to share some advice for Roan now that her profile has blown up and paparazzi are chasing her all over, fellow guest Paris Hilton said she doesn’t think the “Hot To Go” singer needs any advice from her, but she did say, “I think everyone should always be nice with everyone,” noting that she’s also a huge fan of Roan’s.

Roan proved that she’s more than up to the task at last week’s VMAs, when she made her awards show performance debut with a Joan of Arc-like look for a run through “Good Luck, Babe” that included swords, flaming arrows, knights and medieval mania that proved her best new artist win was well deserved.

In the midst of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun farewell tour, Lauper was also asked by a call-in fan if she’d ever consider doing a Las Vegas residency. Without much dithering, the 71-year-old pop icon groaned, “I don’t know,” with host Andy Cohen saying, “kinda seems like a no from her response.”

“It’s just, you know what? The weather is really tough,” said native New Yorker Lauper, lamenting that the frequent triple-digit temperatures are too much for her. After playing Rock in Rio on Friday (Sept. 20), Lauper will kick off her final tour in earnest on Oct. 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

Watch Lauper talk Roan on Watch What Happens Live below.