Editing Girls Just Want to Have Fun (section)

{{Short description|1983 single by Cyndi Lauper}}
{{Redirect|Girls Just Wanna Have Fun||Girls Just Want to Have Fun (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox song
| name          = Girls Just Want to Have Fun
| cover         = Cyndi lauper girls just want to have fun.jpg
| alt           = 
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Cyndi Lauper]]
| album         = [[She's So Unusual]]
| B-side        = Right Track Wrong Train
| released      = October 17, 1983<ref>{{Cite web |title=RIAA |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Cyndi+Lauper&ti=Girls+Just+Want+to+Have+Fun&format=Single&type=#search_section |website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]}}</ref>
| recorded      = 
| studio        = [[Record Plant]] ([[New York City]])
| genre         = 
* [[New wave music|New wave]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 5, 2018 |title=The so-unusual story of how 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' went from bad-boy party song to feminist anthem |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/unusual-story-girls-just-want-fun-went-bad-boy-party-song-feminist-anthem-011725153.html |work=[[Yahoo!]]}}</ref><ref name="Billboard Pop 500">{{Cite magazine |last=Billboard Staff |date=October 19, 2023 |title=The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List |url=https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-pop-songs-all-time-hits/ |access-date=February 24, 2024 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |quote=...take a minute to recall just how groundbreaking Cyndi Lauper’s new wave-pop singalong was in late 1983.}}</ref>
* [[Pop music|pop]]<ref name="Billboard Pop 500" /><ref name="RS 2004">{{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Paul |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |editor-last=Brackett |editor-first=Nathan |edition=4th |pages=476 |chapter=Cyndi Lauper |editor-last2=Hoard |editor-first2=Christian}}</ref>
* [[Bubblegum music|bubblegum]]<ref name="Bubblegum 2001">{{Cite book |last=Smay |first=David |title=Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth |publisher=[[Feral House]] |year=2001 |editor-last=Cooper |editor-first=Kim |location=Los Angeles |pages=248–250 |chapter=Bubblegum & New Wave |editor-last2=Smay |editor-first2=David}}</ref>
* [[post-disco]]
| length        = {{duration|m=3|s=58}}
| label         = [[Portrait Records|Portrait]]
| writer        = [[Robert Hazard]]
| producer      = {{hlist|[[Rick Chertoff]]|William Wittman}}
| next_title    = [[Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper song)|Time After Time]]
| next_year     = 1984
| misc          = {{External music video|type=single|{{YouTube|PIb6AZdTr-A|"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"}}}}
{{Audio sample
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 | description = "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"{{deletable file-caption|Sunday, 27 February 2022|PROD}}
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"'''Girls Just Want to Have Fun'''" is a single made famous in 1983–1984 by the American singer-songwriter [[Cyndi Lauper]], written by [[Robert Hazard]] in 1979, with some of the lyrics changed by Lauper.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Hazard Biography |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-hazard-mn0000291054/biography |access-date=July 15, 2015 |website=AllMusic}}</ref> It was released by [[Portrait Records]] as Lauper's debut single from her first solo album, ''[[She's So Unusual]]'' (1983). Lauper's version gained recognition as a [[feminist anthem]]<ref name="She's a rebel" /> and was promoted by an [[MTV Video Music Awards|MTV Video Music Award]]–winning music video directed by [[Edd Griles]]. It has been covered by more than 30 other artists.

The single was Lauper's breakthrough hit, reaching {{abbr|No.|Number}}&nbsp;2 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart and becoming a worldwide hit throughout late 1983 and early 1984.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=2022-01-24 |title=Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' Joins YouTube's One Billion Views Club |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/cyndi-lauper-girls-just-want-to-have-fun-youtube-one-billion-views-1235022003/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref> It is considered one of Lauper's [[List of signature songs|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.&nbsp;22, No.&nbsp;39 and No.&nbsp;45, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |last=VH1 |year=1997–2012 |title=Rolling Stone & MTV: '100 Greatest Pop Songs': 1–50 |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2000/rsmtv100.htm |access-date=May 31, 2012 |website=RockOnTheNet.com}}</ref><ref name="rockonthenet.com">{{Cite web |last=[[Rolling Stone]] |year=1997–2012 |title=Rolling Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1993/rsvideo.htm |access-date=May 31, 2012 |website=RockOnTheNet.com}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |last=VH1 |year=1997–2012 |title=VH1: 100 Greatest Videos |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2001/vh1videos.htm |access-date=May 31, 2012 |website=Rock On The Net.com |publisher=Rock On The Net}}</ref> The song received [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]] nominations for [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]] at the [[27th Annual Grammy Awards]].

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''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |title=She's So Unusual: A 30th Anniversary Celebration [Deluxe Edition] [Boxset] |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/shes-so-unusual-a-30th-anniversary-celebration-deluxe-edition-boxset-mr0004092348 |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>