Cyndi Lauper Still Wants to Clear Up Misunderstanding Between Her and Steven Spielberg That Arose While Making “The Goonies” Music Video

Angela AndaloroTue, June 30, 2026 at 4:30 PM UTC

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Cyndi Lauper served as musical director on The Goonies and performed in the single "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough"

Lauper, 73, recently talked about the experience of making the music video, explaining how it led to a misunderstanding between her and Steven Spielberg

Lauper regrets that she never cleared the air between them after all was said and done

Cyndi Lauper is looking to clear the air with Steven Spielberg.

The "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" singer, 73, recently appeared on Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, where she talked about a situation that arose between her and the famed director while she was making the music video for "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" in 1985.

"He wanted to do a green screen. I was hoping I'd be on a Hollywood set, I came all the way here to work with you on a Hollywood set, and a green screen.. we'd do that with MTV," she explained.

"But instead I said, 'I was hoping we could do something a little more creative…' He got up, very indignant. He was very upset with me, but I didn't know how to say it, right… I didn't mean it as [his idea] wasn't creative, I just meant that I came all that way."

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Things remained awkward between the two, and then they just went on with their respective careers.

"And I never really said anything. And now that I'm getting older, I keep thinking, well, why don't you write a letter to so and so, just so they know... Just like, just apologize, just so they know that's not really what you meant," she mused.

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Louis-Dreyfus encouraged her to send the note and clear the air.

"I will. Before, you know, I got a little busy, but when I came off the road, I was thinking of all these people and how maybe they misunderstood," Lauper said.

The two once reunited for a good cause, both appearing in the virtual Goonies reunion in April 2020, organized by Josh Gad, to benefit the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, which was providing pandemic relief at the time.

There, Spielberg talked about fans' desire for a sequel to the beloved film.

"Chris, Dick and I — and Lauren [Shuler Donner] — have had a lot of conversations about it,” Spielberg said. “Every couple of years we come up with an idea but then it doesn't hold water.”

"The problem is the bar that all of you raised on this genre," he told the cast. "I don't think we've really successfully been able to find an idea better than The Goonies that we all made in the '80s."

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