Brandon Straka: "Two weeks ago I released a video that I thought was really beautiful, and really harmless, it really did not occur to me that this would be controversial..." * * * * * Lauper, who launched her longtime career with the 1983 opus “She’s So Unusual,” also used the title of the song for the True Colors Fund nonprofit initiative geared at eradicating LGTBQ youth homelessness. So it should come as no surprise that the Grammy and Tony Award-winning Brooklyn native has taken umbrage to Straka’s appropriation of the tune — which was immediately blocked from YouTube on copyright grounds. “I have not heard this version and won’t be listening to it,” Lauper tells The Daily News. “I recorded ‘True Colors’ to be a healing song and it’s not appropriate for anything MAGA related.” “We have free speech in this country, which I would never change,” she continued. “But we also have the freedom not listen to things that are coming from a place of hate and divisiveness and we have the right to not want our beautiful music co-opted for the wrong reasons.” Source for statement on Lauper: https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-cyndi-lauper-weighs-in-brandon-staka-walkaway-maga-true-colors-20201021-nj23ke5tnvebhoi4n6gufi4lly-story.html * * * * * Cyndi Lauper, who admittedly did not, nor would not, watch the video - is against it. How would she know unless she gave it a chance? The video was created by Brandon Straka, a gay man and former Democrat, about the struggles Americans of all colors have faced recently together. The video shows what the media will not show: people of all colors coming together fighting against what the left promotes which, ironically, is *actual* hate and divisiveness, not to mention violence, destruction, and chaos. As Lauper is someone who has supposedly advocated for gay people in the past, here she is, showing her "true colors" with her hypocrisy, hate, and close-mindedness toward one of her fans. * * * * * * * "Darkness cannot drive out