Shine was an album released exclusively in Japan in 2004 by singer Cyndi Lauper. The album was ready for release in 2001 but Edel Records, the label it was recorded with, folded. The leaked tracks from a demonstration disc quickly circulated on the Internet and by 2002 Lauper realized there was no point in trying to release it in a widespread fashion. Two EPs were released instead: One was also called Shine and the other was called Shine Remixes .

The album expounds on the sound Lauper developed with her 1997 album Sisters of Avalon. Mostly pop songs, it flirts with electronica and New Wave while incorporating old-fashioned instruments like sitars and fiddles. The songs are not lyrically linked, and explore themes ranging from the Madonna-Whore Complex to celebrity life. The track It s Hard to be Me was penned about Anna Nicole Smith; Smith attempted to buy it as the theme song to her reality show, but Lauper declined.
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Tracklist:
1. Shine
2. It s Hard To Be Me
3. Madonna Whore
4. Wide Open
5. Rather Be With You
6. Who Let In The Rain
7. Comfort You
8. Eventually
9. Waiting For Valentino
10. This Kind Of Love
11. Higher Plane
12. Water s Edge