Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a song by Cyndi Lauper from 1983, which appeared on the album She's So Unusual. The piece was composed in 1979 by Robert Hazard and texted. He originally wrote the song from a male perspective. So that piece of Lauper could be sung, he adapted to the text.
The song was awarded in the UK with silver, in Japan with the gold record in the U.S. with platinum and double platinum in Canada.
In the episode Legends of the Mall of Daria as well as in the episode of Freaks & Geeks Drawn Together you can hear the song. In 1994, a reggae version of the song by Cyndi Lauper.
Music Video
The music video was filmed in the summer of 1983. The father in the video was played by Lou Albano, Lauper's mother from her birth mother Cathrine Dominique Lauper. The dance partner turned dar. Lauper's attorney Elliot Hoffman
Cover versions
- 2005: Bad Candy
- 2005: 2 Small Dj's ( Shining For Love )
- 2005: Memi vs. Balda
- 2006: Girls Authority
- 2006: 5 in Lovey
- 2007: Royal Gigolos (Girls Just Want to Dance)
- 2007: Soraya Arnelas
- 2007: Norman Palm
- 2008: Puffy
- 2008: Miley Cyrus
- 2008: Emilie Autumn
- 2009: Aloha from Hell
- 2009: Zebrahead
- 2010: Keith Caputo
- 2012: Shaggy feat. Eve