She Bop - Live, The Summit, Houston, TX 10 Oct '84

This song is about masturbation: "They say that if I do it I'm going to go blind...," "I can't stop messin' with the danger zone."

Lauper wrote this song with Rick Chertoff, Gary Corbett and Stephen Broughton Lunt. Corbett is a keyboard player who has worked with Lou Gramm and Cinderella; Lunt also co-wrote Lauper's song "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough." Chertoff produced the album along with Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, who had some hit songs with their group The Hooters a year later, including "And We Danced" and "Day By Day." They also played backup on the album.

The video takes place in some kind of dystopian future where everyone conforms. It opens the "Burger Klone," where smiling, lobotomized customers get their meals. Lauper finds herself a bad boy with a motorcycle and rides off in an animated landscape (a coy reference to the song's meaning: when they stop a gas station marked "self service"). By the end of the video, she has apparently gone blind. The video was directed by Edd Griles, who also did the Girls Just Want To Have Fun and Time After Time clips; the animation sequence was done by Mark Marek, whose work shows up in the kids' shows Team Umizoomi and KaBlam!