--- description: Listen to the gorgeous piano arrangement below title: Hear Marina and the Diamonds' Cover Cyndi Lauper's 'True Colors' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hear Marina and the Diamonds' Stunning Cover of Cyndi Lauper's 'True Colors' ## Video: Why Marina and the Diamonds Wrote a Song About Rape Culture [Watch (HLS stream): Why Marina and the Diamonds Wrote a Song About Rape Culture](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/riFudUWG.m3u8) (1:36)  _Published 2015-03-16. The singer talks to TIME about her song_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2016 4:43 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2016 4:43 PM CUT Five days into 2016, we may have already found the year’s Most Thematically On Point Cover Song: Marina and the Diamonds, whose [vivid 2015 album _Froot_](http://time.com/3745237/marina-and-the-diamonds-froot/ "undefined") featured song titles like [“Blue”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDr7aTfBffU "undefined") and “Gold,” recorded a cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” that just surfaced. 1980s synth-pop is having a pretty big moment thanks to [Taylor Swift’s _1989_](http://time.com/3533569/taylor-swift-1989-review/ "undefined") and [Carly Rae Jepsen’s _E•MO•TION_](http://time.com/4004524/carly-rae-jepsen-review-emotion/ "undefined")—probably the closest we’ve come to a modern _She’s So Unusual_ in some time—but Marina keeps it simple with a gorgeous piano arrangement. **Read next:** [Why Marina and the Diamonds Wrote a Song About Rape Culture on Her New Album](http://time.com/3745237/marina-and-the-diamonds-froot/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4167588/marina-and-the-diamonds-true-colors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4167588/marina-and-the-diamonds-true-colors/"},"headline":"Hear Marina and the Diamonds' Stunning Cover of Cyndi Lauper's 'True Colors'","datePublished":"2016-01-05T16:43:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:47:13.334Z","description":"Listen to the gorgeous piano arrangement below","url":"https://time.com/4167588/marina-and-the-diamonds-true-colors/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4167588/marina-and-the-diamonds-true-colors/","name":"Hear Marina and the Diamonds' Stunning Cover of Cyndi Lauper's 'True Colors'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Why Marina and the Diamonds Wrote a Song About Rape Culture","description":"The singer talks to TIME about her song","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/riFudUWG/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-16T14:16:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/riFudUWG.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4167588/marina-and-the-diamonds-true-colors/","duration":"PT1M36S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4167588/marina-and-the-diamonds-true-colors/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```