Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun

“Girls Just Want To Have Fun” –  is the first single as solo artist for Cindy Lauper from the 1983’s album She’s So Unusual.

The song was a huge part of ’80s culture. It became an anthem for female attitude and set fashion trends as the video showed Lauper wearing bright, outrageous clothes that looked like they came from a thrift store (they often did). It set the stage for artists like Madonna: independent women wearing cheap, yet fashionable clothes with a taste for garish accessories.

Lauper didn’t want to record this song, but her producer, Rick Chertoff, was convinced it could become her anthem. The challenge for Lauper was figuring out how to sing it. She ended up doing her vocal in the style of the ’50s hit “Let the Good Times Roll” by Shirley & Lee, which Shirley Goodman sings in a high-pitched voice.

As the Grammy-nominated track ran all the way up to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the Edd Griles – directed video was in heavy rotation on MTV in the early days when the channel played music clips 24 hours a day.

With Lauper’s mother playing the part of a put-upon matriarch and professional wrestler/manager Captain Lou Albano as her dad, the low-budget visual with screensaver graphics introduced the world to the kewpie doll-voiced singer with a flashy, trashy thrift store look and Tang-colored hair. In the bouncy video, Lauper and a gang of fellow fun-lovers sing and dance through the streets and end up at a packed new-wave house party to the consternation of eternally agitated Albano.

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Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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Girls Just Want To Have Fun este o melodie compusă în 1979 de către Roberet Hazard. Dar, este cel mai bine cunsocută datorită versiunii interpretate de Cyndi Lauper în 1983. A fost primul ei single solo, de pe albumul de debut She’s So Unusual.

Melodia a devenit un hit în toată lumea în cursului anului 1983 și începutul lui 1984. Videoclipul a primit două premii:

• American Video Awards for Best Female Performance (1983)
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video (1984)

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, născută pe 22 Iunie, 1953 în New York.

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