Editing She's So Unusual (section)

== Accolades ==
''She's So Unusual'' and its singles earned Lauper six [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] nominations, including [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] and ultimately winning the awards for [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package|Best Recording Package]] and [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]]. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]], and "Time After Time" was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]. Lauper earned ten [[MTV Video Music Awards|MTV Video Music Award]] nominations. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" received six nominations including [[MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year|Video of the Year]], and won for [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video|Best Female Video]]. "Time After Time" received three nominations and "She Bop" received one nomination.

''She's So Unusual'' was ranked at number 494 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|list of the 500 greatest albums of all time]] in 2003,<ref name="RS2003">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/shes-so-unusual-cyndi-lauper-19691231|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: She's So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 11, 2003|access-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219094120/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/shes-so-unusual-cyndi-lauper-19691231|archive-date=December 19, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> rising to number 487 in a 2012 update of the list,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/cyndi-lauper-shes-so-unusual-47052/|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=May 31, 2012|access-date=August 23, 2019}}</ref> then to number 184 in a 2020 update.<ref name="RS2020">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/cyndi-lauper-shes-so-unusual-4-1063049/|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=September 22, 2020|access-date=November 29, 2021}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' also placed ''She's So Unusual'' at number 41 on its 2002 list of 50 essential albums by women in rock,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=New York|issue=908|date=October 31, 2002}}</ref> and the record retained the placement on a similar list published by the magazine a decade later.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/women-who-rock-the-50-greatest-albums-of-all-time-160558/cyndi-lauper-shes-so-unusual-3-229576/|title=Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=June 22, 2012|access-date=November 29, 2021}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' listed it as the 22nd best album of the 1980s, calling it an "absolutely peerless collection of profound pop jewels".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/best-albums-of-the-1980s/|title=The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s|website=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=March 5, 2012|access-date=November 29, 2021}}</ref> In 2019, the [[Library of Congress]] selected ''She's So Unusual'' for preservation in the [[National Recording Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="Andrews">{{cite news|last=Andrews|first=Travis M.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jay-z-a-speech-by-sen-robert-f-kennedy-and-schoolhouse-rock-among-recordings-deemed-classics-by-library-of-congress/2019/03/19/f7eb08ea-4a58-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html|title=Jay-Z, a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 'Schoolhouse Rock!' among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=March 20, 2019|access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref>

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| rowspan="9" | [[1984 MTV Video Music Awards|1984]]
| rowspan="6" | "[[Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]"
| [[MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year]]
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| [[MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist]]
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| [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video]]
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| [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Concept Video]]
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| [[MTV Video Music Award – Viewer's Choice]]
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| [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance]]
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| rowspan="3" | "[[Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper song)|Time After Time]]"
| MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
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| MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
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| [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction]]
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| rowspan="7" | 1985 || Cyndi Lauper || [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist]] || {{won}}
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| rowspan="2" | ''She's So Unusual'' || [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package|Grammy Award for Best Album Package]] || {{won}}
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| [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year]] || {{nom}}
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| rowspan="2" | "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" || [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year]] || {{nom}}
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| [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]] || {{nom}}
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| "Time After Time" || [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year]]|| {{nom}}
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| "[[She Bop]]"
| MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
| {{nom}}
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