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:''This article is about the original Cyndi Lauper song. For other uses, please see Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (disambiguation).''
"'Girls Just Want to Have Fun'" was the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper as a solo artist. It gained renown as a feminist anthem, an award winning video and a world-wide smash hit.
With the inclusion of promotional releases, the single has seen over 38 individual versions of release. The most common was a 7" vinyl single (with varying cover artwork) released in 1983/1984 (depending on the country), with the second most common being a 12" vinyl single (also with varying cover artwork) released in 1983/1984.
The song was written by Robert Hazard, who recorded his version of the song in 1979. Lauper changed the lyrics slightly to allow it to be performed by a female and Hazard approved the minor changes. Her version appeared on her 1983 debut solo record, ''She's So Unusual''. It is a synthesizer-backed anthem about the roles of women in society and is considered by many to be a feminist classic of the era.
Originally run on late-night MTV as a novel, inside-industry joke, the video quickly went into heavy rotation and wound up as 1983's "Video of the Year".
It has been covered on either an album or in live concert by over 30 other artists including but not limited to Pearl Jam, Greg Laswell, John Mayer, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Cybill Shepherd, Lolly, Dandy Warhols, David Rawlings, The Ordinary Boys and Cam'ron. Recently, the Mexican band Los Horoscopos de Durango released a Duranguense version of the song and a Spanish version, Sólo Quiero Bailar (I Just Want To Dance). The song is rumored to be the first single off The Cheetah Girls' latest album, due to be released in 2007.
The variety of releases of the single includes an Austrian birthday card with a 3" CD of the song included inside. The song has been heavily distributed in karaoke version as well. Lauper would later go on to completely re-work the song in 1994 resulting in the new hit "Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)". The song was remade by Lauper yet again in 2005 on her ''The Body Acoustic'' album, also produced by Chertoff and Wittman with Lauper, with guest support vocals from Japanese pop/rock duo Puffy AmiYumi.
The release of the single was accompanied by a quirky music video produced in Mother Studio in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for a cost of less than $35,000, largely due to a volunteer cast and the free loan of the most sophisticated video equipment available at the time. The cast included wrestler "Captain" Lou Albano in the role of Lauper's father while her real mother, Catrine, played her mother. Lauper's attorney, Elliot Hoffman, appeared as her uptight dancing partner. Also in the cast were Lauper's manager, David Wolf, her brother Butch Lauper, and a bevy of secretaries borrowed from Portrait/CBS, Lauper's record label.
Lorne Michaels (Broadway Video, SNL), another of Hoffman's clients, agreed to give Lauper free run of his brand new million dollar digital editing equipment, with which she and her producer created several first-time-ever computer generated images of Lauper dancing with her buttoned-up lawyer, leading the entire cast in a snake-dance through New York streets and crashing a giant party.
The single reached the top ten in fifteen different countries: number one in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Israel, Japan (the number one position was held on Oricon's International singles chart; on the main Oricon singles chart, it peaked at number 17, which is still exceptional for a non-Japanese artist), New Zealand and Norway; number two in the United States, and United Kingdom; number three in Austria, the Netherlands and South Africa; and number six in Germany and Switzerland.
#Extended Version 6:08
#Fun With V. Knutsn (Instrumental) 7:10
#Xtra Fun 5:05
#Remix 6:30
#Radio Remix 3:39
#'Lyrics:' Robert Hazard. 'Production:' Rick Chertoff.
#'Lyrics:' Cyndi Lauper, Ellie Greenwich, Jeffrey B. Kent. 'Production:' Rick Chertoff
'''Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)''' was the first single off of Cyndi Lauper's Twelve Deadly Cyns hits collection from 1994.
This song is a new reggae-tinged arrangement of Lauper's own "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" standard, with a musical tip of the hat to Redbone's "Come And Get Your Love".
Lauper performed various versions of "Hey Now" during her concerts before the Twelve Deadly Cyns tour. It is how she eventually came to the final version which appeared on Twelve Deadly Cyns. It all started when she was touring for Hat Full of Stars. She performed a version of it that was very different in the Singapore concert, and it changed a lot for the Toronto concert. These pre-versions were more like the original version but with the "Hey Now" chorus. However the Gay Games is probably the first time that actual version of "Hey Now" was performed complete with drag queens and all like the music video (pictured below).
"Hey Now" plays over the closing sequence and credits of the movie ''To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'' starring John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze as drag queens, which is similar to ''Priscilla Queen of the Desert''.
The song was a big comeback hit for Lauper. As it hit the top 10 and top 40 in many countries and was a big dance hit in the states. It peaked at #4 in the UK and New Zealand, its highest position.
#Factory Dub Version 6:50
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Dancehall Main" 5:46
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Harder Dancehall" 5:46
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Lounge Dub" 6:00
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Lounge Mix" 6:12
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Pop Goes The Dancehall" 4:58
#Junior Vasquez Soundfactory Mix 7:40
#Mikey Bennett's "Carnival" Version 6:04
#Mikey Bennett's "Carnival" Version Edited 4:09
#Single Edit 3:39
#Sly & Robbie's "Home Grown" Version 4:16
#Straight Up Pass Version 7:13
#Techno Dub 3:55
#Techno Main Mix 8:23
In October 2006, it was announced by group member Adrienne Bailon that The Cheetah Girls would release a remake of the song as the first single from their forthcoming debut studio album.[1] The group also confirmed that this song and album will be released on Hollywood Records and will be releasing this single into the mainstream music scene. The girls have also said that their version of the song will remain a pop song but with some hip-hop influence. However, in March 2007 the album's release date was pushed back to September, as was the single. In April 2007 the release of the single was cancelled in favor of the Girls' remake of the classic 1950 Disney song "So This Is Love". The song was also cut from the album's final tracklisting.
★ "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" can be heard in the first flashback of ''The Simpsons'' episode "Lisa's First Word"; Homer even sings it.
★ The song is also featured in the American Console for Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA for the PlayStation 2.
★ In one ''Peanuts'' comic strip published in 1984, not long after the song was a hit, Charlie Brown, upset at Lucy's having missed another fly ball during a baseball game, asks her why she even plays. Lucy's response is, "Girls just want to have fun."
★ One episode of the NBC-TV sitcom ''The Golden Girls'' (1985-92) is titled "Girls Just Want to Have Fun... Before They Die."
1. "''Blast'' Presents: Catching up with the cast of High School Musical & other teen TV stars", ''Blast'', spring 2007, p. 38.
★ Official Cyndi Lauper website
★ Official Cheetah Girls website
"'Girls Just Want to Have Fun'" was the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper as a solo artist. It gained renown as a feminist anthem, an award winning video and a world-wide smash hit.
Song information
With the inclusion of promotional releases, the single has seen over 38 individual versions of release. The most common was a 7" vinyl single (with varying cover artwork) released in 1983/1984 (depending on the country), with the second most common being a 12" vinyl single (also with varying cover artwork) released in 1983/1984.
The song was written by Robert Hazard, who recorded his version of the song in 1979. Lauper changed the lyrics slightly to allow it to be performed by a female and Hazard approved the minor changes. Her version appeared on her 1983 debut solo record, ''She's So Unusual''. It is a synthesizer-backed anthem about the roles of women in society and is considered by many to be a feminist classic of the era.
Originally run on late-night MTV as a novel, inside-industry joke, the video quickly went into heavy rotation and wound up as 1983's "Video of the Year".
It has been covered on either an album or in live concert by over 30 other artists including but not limited to Pearl Jam, Greg Laswell, John Mayer, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Cybill Shepherd, Lolly, Dandy Warhols, David Rawlings, The Ordinary Boys and Cam'ron. Recently, the Mexican band Los Horoscopos de Durango released a Duranguense version of the song and a Spanish version, Sólo Quiero Bailar (I Just Want To Dance). The song is rumored to be the first single off The Cheetah Girls' latest album, due to be released in 2007.
The variety of releases of the single includes an Austrian birthday card with a 3" CD of the song included inside. The song has been heavily distributed in karaoke version as well. Lauper would later go on to completely re-work the song in 1994 resulting in the new hit "Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)". The song was remade by Lauper yet again in 2005 on her ''The Body Acoustic'' album, also produced by Chertoff and Wittman with Lauper, with guest support vocals from Japanese pop/rock duo Puffy AmiYumi.
Music video
Lauper and Albano in the "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" music video, directed by Edd Griles.
Lorne Michaels (Broadway Video, SNL), another of Hoffman's clients, agreed to give Lauper free run of his brand new million dollar digital editing equipment, with which she and her producer created several first-time-ever computer generated images of Lauper dancing with her buttoned-up lawyer, leading the entire cast in a snake-dance through New York streets and crashing a giant party.
Chart performance
The single reached the top ten in fifteen different countries: number one in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Israel, Japan (the number one position was held on Oricon's International singles chart; on the main Oricon singles chart, it peaked at number 17, which is still exceptional for a non-Japanese artist), New Zealand and Norway; number two in the United States, and United Kingdom; number three in Austria, the Netherlands and South Africa; and number six in Germany and Switzerland.
| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 2 |
| U.S. Hot Dance/Club Play | 1 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 1 |
| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 1 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Chilean Singles Chart | 1 |
| Colombian Singles Chart | 3 |
| German Singles Chart | 6 |
| Holland Singles Chart | 3 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 1 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 4 |
| Japanese Singles Chart (Oricon) | 17 |
| Japanese International Singles Chart | 1 |
| New Zealand Singles Charts | 1 |
| South African Chart | 3 |
| Switzerland | 6 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
Official versions
#Extended Version 6:08
#Fun With V. Knutsn (Instrumental) 7:10
#Xtra Fun 5:05
#Remix 6:30
#Radio Remix 3:39
Credits
#'Lyrics:' Robert Hazard. 'Production:' Rick Chertoff.
#'Lyrics:' Cyndi Lauper, Ellie Greenwich, Jeffrey B. Kent. 'Production:' Rick Chertoff
Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)
'''Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)''' was the first single off of Cyndi Lauper's Twelve Deadly Cyns hits collection from 1994.
Song information
This song is a new reggae-tinged arrangement of Lauper's own "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" standard, with a musical tip of the hat to Redbone's "Come And Get Your Love".
Lauper performed various versions of "Hey Now" during her concerts before the Twelve Deadly Cyns tour. It is how she eventually came to the final version which appeared on Twelve Deadly Cyns. It all started when she was touring for Hat Full of Stars. She performed a version of it that was very different in the Singapore concert, and it changed a lot for the Toronto concert. These pre-versions were more like the original version but with the "Hey Now" chorus. However the Gay Games is probably the first time that actual version of "Hey Now" was performed complete with drag queens and all like the music video (pictured below).
"Hey Now" plays over the closing sequence and credits of the movie ''To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'' starring John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze as drag queens, which is similar to ''Priscilla Queen of the Desert''.
The song was a big comeback hit for Lauper. As it hit the top 10 and top 40 in many countries and was a big dance hit in the states. It peaked at #4 in the UK and New Zealand, its highest position.
Chart performance
| Chart (1994/95) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 87 |
| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 67 |
| Chilean Singles Chart | 9 |
| Colombian Singles Chart | 71 |
| French Singles Chart | 10 |
| German Singles Chart | 56 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 6 |
| Japanese International Singles Chart | 8 |
| New Zealand Singles Charts | 4 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 14 |
| Switzerland Singles Chart | 37 |
| UK Singles Chart | 4 |
Official versions
#Factory Dub Version 6:50
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Dancehall Main" 5:46
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Harder Dancehall" 5:46
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Lounge Dub" 6:00
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Lounge Mix" 6:12
#Junior Vasquez Remix "Pop Goes The Dancehall" 4:58
#Junior Vasquez Soundfactory Mix 7:40
#Mikey Bennett's "Carnival" Version 6:04
#Mikey Bennett's "Carnival" Version Edited 4:09
#Single Edit 3:39
#Sly & Robbie's "Home Grown" Version 4:16
#Straight Up Pass Version 7:13
#Techno Dub 3:55
#Techno Main Mix 8:23
The Cheetah Girls version
In October 2006, it was announced by group member Adrienne Bailon that The Cheetah Girls would release a remake of the song as the first single from their forthcoming debut studio album.[1] The group also confirmed that this song and album will be released on Hollywood Records and will be releasing this single into the mainstream music scene. The girls have also said that their version of the song will remain a pop song but with some hip-hop influence. However, in March 2007 the album's release date was pushed back to September, as was the single. In April 2007 the release of the single was cancelled in favor of the Girls' remake of the classic 1950 Disney song "So This Is Love". The song was also cut from the album's final tracklisting.
References in popular culture
★ "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" can be heard in the first flashback of ''The Simpsons'' episode "Lisa's First Word"; Homer even sings it.
★ The song is also featured in the American Console for Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA for the PlayStation 2.
★ In one ''Peanuts'' comic strip published in 1984, not long after the song was a hit, Charlie Brown, upset at Lucy's having missed another fly ball during a baseball game, asks her why she even plays. Lucy's response is, "Girls just want to have fun."
★ One episode of the NBC-TV sitcom ''The Golden Girls'' (1985-92) is titled "Girls Just Want to Have Fun... Before They Die."
References
1. "''Blast'' Presents: Catching up with the cast of High School Musical & other teen TV stars", ''Blast'', spring 2007, p. 38.
External links
★ Official Cyndi Lauper website
★ Official Cheetah Girls website
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