Bring Ya to the Brink
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Bring Ya to the Brink is Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

's tenth studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 and was released on May 27, 2008 in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The song "Set Your Heart
Set Your Heart
"Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper and Richard Morel for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay....

" was released as a promo-only single in Japan in early 2008 and "Same Ol' Story
Same Ol' Story
"Same Ol' Story" is a Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1 single released by Cyndi Lauper from her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink...

" was the first official single released worldwide on May 6, 2008. "Into the Nightlife
Into the Nightlife
"Into the Nightlife" is a song written by Cyndi Lauper, Peer Åström, Johan Bobäck and Max Martin, and produced by Lauper, Åström and Bobäck, for Lauper's tenth studio album Bring Ya to the Brink. It peaked at #1 on the U.S Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and on the Cashbox Top Dance Singles...

" was released as the album's second official single.

Album information

Lauper visited England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 during early 2007 where she wrote songs with dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 artists such as The Scumfrog
The Scumfrog
Jesse Houk is a DJ/remixer/producer/artist from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is better known by his pseudonym, The Scumfrog, under which he has remixed songs by artists as varied as Britney Spears, David Bowie, Dido, Enrique Iglesias, and J-Pop Superstar Utada Hikaru. His first release was a...

, Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

, Digital Dog
Jack Rokka
Digital Dog are now a SE London-based team, Steve Cornish and Nick Mace. They have produced/remixed for everyone from Cheyrl Cole, Timbaland, Katy Perry, Britney Spears,  Rihanna, Ciara, Pussycat dolls, 50 Cent, Taio Cruz, Tinchy Stryder, Cyndi Lauper, Chipmunk, JLS, Pink, Fatboy Slim, Armand Van...

, Dragonette
Dragonette
Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer....

, Kleerup
Kleerup
Andreas Kleerup, known professionally by his last name, is a Swedish record producer, drummer, and member of the Swedish group The Meat Boys, from Stockholm, Sweden. His first mainstream collaboration was as the producer of fellow Swedish artist Robyn's #1 UK single, "With Every Heartbeat", also...

 and Axwell
Axwell
Axwell is a DJ, remixer, record producer and record label owner from Sweden. He is part of a three person group dubbed the Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello...

. She also wrote and produced four of the album's tracks with Washington DC DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 Richard Morel
Richard Morel
Richard Morel is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, remixer and record producer from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively with Washington D.C.-based duo Deep Dish, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on many of their tracks, most notably on their albums Junk...

. Art direction on the album was credited to Cyndi Lauper, Sheri Lee & Meghan Foley, with photography by Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie Schneider is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Stefanie Schneider is known for using expired Polaroid instant film material to achieve an effect of washed-out colors and random artifacts from the deprecation of the chemicals...

.

Tour and Promotion

Lauper embarked on the Bring Ya to the Brink World Tour
Bring Ya To The Brink Tour
The Bring Ya To The Brink Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American singer-songwriter and actress Cyndi Lauper to support her album Bring Ya to the Brink. It was the tenth official Cyndi Lauper's own tour that she was promoting an album. The shows were in Japan, Europe and South America, in a...

 in support of the album. The show ventured to Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

 and had 32 dates in total.

The album listed at #7 on the Attitude Magazine's top ten albums of 2008 and also came in at #8 on Amazon's Best Pop albums of 2008.

"Echo" was featured in the Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl (TV series)
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007...

episode "Bonfire of the Vanity". "High and Mighty" was in an episode of Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...

.

Lauper performed "Into the Nightlife" live on The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show is a British comedy chat show that is broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It was originally shown on BBC Two from February 2007 to May 2009 until it moved to BBC One from October 2009...

, in series 4 episode 2, first broadcast on October 9, 2008.

Floor Remixes

A remix album, Floor Remixes, was released February 18, 2009 as a limited edition CD/DVD set and a regular edition in Japan.

A single called "Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart
Set Your Heart
"Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper and Richard Morel for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay....

" was released in Japan on January 21, 2009. It is a mashup of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "Set Your Heart", mixed by Richard Morel.

Track listing

Lauper co-Wrote and co-produced all tracks. Additional writers and producers listed below.
#TitleLengthSongwritersProducers
1 "High and Mighty" 4:43 Jesse Houk
The Scumfrog
Jesse Houk is a DJ/remixer/producer/artist from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is better known by his pseudonym, The Scumfrog, under which he has remixed songs by artists as varied as Britney Spears, David Bowie, Dido, Enrique Iglesias, and J-Pop Superstar Utada Hikaru. His first release was a...

Scumfrog
The Scumfrog
Jesse Houk is a DJ/remixer/producer/artist from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is better known by his pseudonym, The Scumfrog, under which he has remixed songs by artists as varied as Britney Spears, David Bowie, Dido, Enrique Iglesias, and J-Pop Superstar Utada Hikaru. His first release was a...

2 "Into the Nightlife
Into the Nightlife
"Into the Nightlife" is a song written by Cyndi Lauper, Peer Åström, Johan Bobäck and Max Martin, and produced by Lauper, Åström and Bobäck, for Lauper's tenth studio album Bring Ya to the Brink. It peaked at #1 on the U.S Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and on the Cashbox Top Dance Singles...

"
4:00 Peer Åström
Peer Åström
Peer Åström Peer Åström Peer Åström (born in Ljusdal, Sweden is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer and partner with Anders Bagge. The two songwriters / producers are known as Bagge & Peer. They have together written and produced songs for Lara Fabian, Celine Dion, Madonna,...

, Johan Bobäck
Johan Bobäck
Johan Bobäck also known as "Kermit" is a record producer and songwriter from Sweden. "Kermit" has written and produced songs for many artists like Garou, Chris Norman, Darin, Troy This, Jeanette Biedermann , Linda Sundblad, Play, Ola Svensson, Elin Lanto etc...

, Max Martin
Max Martin
Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...

Åström, Bobäck
3 "Rocking Chair" 3:39 Felix Buxton
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

, Simon Ratcliffe
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

4 "Echo" 3:55 Åström, Bobäck, William Wittman Åström, Bobäck
5 "Lyfe" 3:38 Roger Fife, M. Greene, Sammy Merendino DJ Emz
6 "Same Ol' Story
Same Ol' Story
"Same Ol' Story" is a Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1 single released by Cyndi Lauper from her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink...

"
5:54 Richard Morel
Richard Morel
Richard Morel is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, remixer and record producer from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively with Washington D.C.-based duo Deep Dish, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on many of their tracks, most notably on their albums Junk...

Morel
7 "Raging Storm" 5:23 Morel Morel
8 "Lay Me Down" 3:28 Andreas Kleerup
Kleerup
Andreas Kleerup, known professionally by his last name, is a Swedish record producer, drummer, and member of the Swedish group The Meat Boys, from Stockholm, Sweden. His first mainstream collaboration was as the producer of fellow Swedish artist Robyn's #1 UK single, "With Every Heartbeat", also...

Kleerup
9 "Give It Up" 3:23 Steve Cornish
Jack Rokka
Digital Dog are now a SE London-based team, Steve Cornish and Nick Mace. They have produced/remixed for everyone from Cheyrl Cole, Timbaland, Katy Perry, Britney Spears,  Rihanna, Ciara, Pussycat dolls, 50 Cent, Taio Cruz, Tinchy Stryder, Cyndi Lauper, Chipmunk, JLS, Pink, Fatboy Slim, Armand Van...

, Nicholas Mace
Jack Rokka
Digital Dog are now a SE London-based team, Steve Cornish and Nick Mace. They have produced/remixed for everyone from Cheyrl Cole, Timbaland, Katy Perry, Britney Spears,  Rihanna, Ciara, Pussycat dolls, 50 Cent, Taio Cruz, Tinchy Stryder, Cyndi Lauper, Chipmunk, JLS, Pink, Fatboy Slim, Armand Van...

Digital Dog
Jack Rokka
Digital Dog are now a SE London-based team, Steve Cornish and Nick Mace. They have produced/remixed for everyone from Cheyrl Cole, Timbaland, Katy Perry, Britney Spears,  Rihanna, Ciara, Pussycat dolls, 50 Cent, Taio Cruz, Tinchy Stryder, Cyndi Lauper, Chipmunk, JLS, Pink, Fatboy Slim, Armand Van...

10 "Set Your Heart
Set Your Heart
"Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper and Richard Morel for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay....

" †
3:42 Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden
Gene McFadden
Gene McFadden was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.-Biography:McFadden met John Whitehead as a teenager...

, Morel, John Whitehead
John Whitehead (singer)
John Whitehead was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with Gene McFadden.McFadden and Whitehead wrote many hits for...

Morel
11 "Grab a Hold" 3:27 Dan Kurtz
Dragonette
Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer....

, Martina Sorbara
Martina Sorbara
Martina Sorbara is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of Greg Sorbara, who is a Member of Provincial Parliament, formerly the Minister of Finance in Ontario....

Dragonette
Dragonette
Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer....

12 "Rain on Me" 4:24 P. Chou, Axel Hedfors
Axwell
Axwell is a DJ, remixer, record producer and record label owner from Sweden. He is part of a three person group dubbed the Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello...

, Alexander Kronlund
Alexander Kronlund
Alexander Kronlund is a Swedish producer and songwriter.Kronlund co-wrote Meja's one million selling debut album on Sony and co-wrote two songs for Britney Spears' second album, Oops I Did It Again. Kronlund co-wrote her hit single, "Lucky", with Max Martin and Rami and also co-wrote "Don’t Go...

Axwell
Axwell
Axwell is a DJ, remixer, record producer and record label owner from Sweden. He is part of a three person group dubbed the Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello...



† Contains an interpolation of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco...

' "Where Are All My Friends", written by Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden
Gene McFadden
Gene McFadden was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.-Biography:McFadden met John Whitehead as a teenager...

, and John Whitehead
John Whitehead (singer)
John Whitehead was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with Gene McFadden.McFadden and Whitehead wrote many hits for...

.

Bonus tracks

Japanese edition, Special edition
#TitleLengthSongwritersProducers
13 "Got Candy" 3:53 Morel Morel
14 "Can't Breathe" 3:58 Chou, Kronlund Wittman


U.S. iTunes deluxe version
#TitleLength
13 "Got Candy" 3:53
14 "Can't Breathe" 3:58
15 "Set Your Heart" (Pink Noise Remix) 6:47
16 "Same Ol' Story" (Ralphi Rosario
Ralphi Rosario
Ralphi Rosario was a founding member of the influential Chicago DJ group, The Hot Mix 5. When this group formed in 1981 on radio station WBMX, Rosario, the youngest member of the group, was still in high school...

 Vocal Mix)
8:46

Singles

  • "Set Your Heart
    Set Your Heart
    "Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper and Richard Morel for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay....

    " was released as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay. Peaking at #11 on the Billboard
    Billboard (magazine)
    Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

    Japan Hot 100 Singles.

  • The first single of the album was "Same Ol' Story
    Same Ol' Story
    "Same Ol' Story" is a Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1 single released by Cyndi Lauper from her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink...

    ", it was released worldwide on May 6, 2008. It topped the U.S.
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
    Hot Dance Club Play
    The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

     and stayed on the chart for several weeks.

  • The second single of the album was "Into the Nightlife
    Into the Nightlife
    "Into the Nightlife" is a song written by Cyndi Lauper, Peer Åström, Johan Bobäck and Max Martin, and produced by Lauper, Åström and Bobäck, for Lauper's tenth studio album Bring Ya to the Brink. It peaked at #1 on the U.S Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and on the Cashbox Top Dance Singles...

    ", it was released on August 8, 2008. The music video
    Music video
    A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

     for the song was partly filmed at Splash Bar in New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

     on May 20, 2008. Fans were invited to come be extras in the video. It was a huge club hit in the U.S. topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and peaking at #5 on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay
    Hot Dance Airplay
    Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it...

    .

  • Dance radio station Energy 92.7FM in San Francisco announced that "Echo" would be the third single, but no release eventuated.

Accolades

|-
|rowspan="1"|2009
|"Bring Ya To The Brink"
|Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album
Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album
The Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronica Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the dance music and electronica genres...


|

Chart performance

Chart (2008) Peak
Position
Austrian Albums Chart 48
French Albums Chart 129
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese Albums Chart
11
U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Billboard
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

41

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

Sony Music Japan
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....

CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 with bonus tracks
EICP 968
United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...


UK
Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

CD 706592
Paid download
Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

Sony BMG CD 706592
Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

Epic CD 88697065922
Paid download
Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

Sony BMG  CD
Cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...


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