Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Single by Cyndi Lauper
from the album She's So Unusual
B-side"Right Track Wrong Train"
ReleasedOctober 17, 1983 (US)[1]
December 30, 1983 (UK)[2]
StudioRecord Plant (New York City)
Genre
Length3:58
LabelPortrait
Songwriter(s)Robert Hazard
Producer(s)
Cyndi Lauper singles chronology
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
(1983) 		"Time After Time"
(1984)
Music video
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" on YouTube
Audio sample

"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a single by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, written by Robert Hazard.[7] It was released by Portrait Records as Lauper's first major single as a solo artist and the lead single from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983). Lauper's version gained recognition as a feminist anthem[8] and was promoted by a Grammy-winning music video. It has been covered by more than 30 other artists.

The single was Lauper's breakthrough hit, reaching No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming a worldwide hit throughout late 1983 and early 1984. It is considered one of Lauper's signature songs and was a popular song during the 1980s.

The lists "Rolling Stone and MTV: '100 Greatest Pop Songs': 1–50", "Rolling Stone: The 100 Top Music Videos" and "VH1: 100 Greatest Videos" ranked the song at No. 22, No. 39 and No. 45, respectively.[9][10][11] The song received Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Lauper released a new version, "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)", as the first single from her 1994 compilation album Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some. It reached the top 10 in several countries. In 2013, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was remixed by Yolanda Be Cool for the 30th-anniversary reissue of She's So Unusual.[12]

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  3. ^ "The so-unusual story of how 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' went from bad-boy party song to feminist anthem". Yahoo!. September 5, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Billboard Staff (October 19, 2023). "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. Retrieved February 24, 2024. ...take a minute to recall just how groundbreaking Cyndi Lauper's new wave-pop singalong was in late 1983.
  5. ^ Evans, Paul (2004). "Cyndi Lauper". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 476. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
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  7. ^ "Robert Hazard Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference She's a rebel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ VH1 (1997–2012). "Rolling Stone & MTV: '100 Greatest Pop Songs': 1–50". RockOnTheNet.com. Retrieved May 31, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Rolling Stone (1997–2012). "Rolling Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos"". RockOnTheNet.com. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  11. ^ VH1 (1997–2012). "VH1: 100 Greatest Videos". Rock On The Net.com. Rock On The Net. Retrieved May 31, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "She's So Unusual: A 30th Anniversary Celebration [Deluxe Edition] [Boxset]". AllMusic.