Cyndi Lauper

Released: September 6, 1983

Songwriter: Robert Hazard

Producer: Rick Chertoff William Wittman

[Verse 1]
I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
Oh momma dear, we're not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

[Verse 2]
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have

[Chorus]
That's all they really want
Some fun
When the working day is done
Oh, girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

[Post-Chorus]
Girls, they want, wanna have fun
Girls, wanna have

[Verse 3]
Some boys take a beautiful girl
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Oh, girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have

[Chorus]
That's all they really want
Is some fun
When the working day is done
Oh, girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

[Post-Chorus]
Girls, they want, wanna have fun
Girls, wanna have

[Outro]
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls…)
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls just wanna have fun)
(Girls just wanna have fun)
Girls just wanna have fun
They just wanna, they just wanna
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls…)
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls just wanna have fun)
Girls, girls just wanna have fun
When the working
When the working day is done
Oh, when the working day is done
Oh, girls, girls just wanna have fun...
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls…)
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls just wanna have fun)
Girls, girls just wanna have fun
They just wanna, they just wanna
When the working
When the working day is done
They just wanna, they just wanna
(Girls…)
Oh, when the working day is done
Oh, girls, girls just wanna have fun
Girls just wanna have fun
They just wanna, they just wanna
They just wanna

An 80’s pop starlet that skyrocketed her way to the top of the mainstream game, Cyndi Lauper has made her mark as an artist both socially and musically.

Beginning her solo career in the 1983 with hit debut album She’s So Unusual, Lauper came to be a household name with the four top-five hits that came with the record, including breakthrough single “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the visceral, chart-topping “Time After Time”. Her camp attitude, electrifying vocals, and unrelenting earworms made an impression on the general public, and she would take home Best New Artist and Best Album Package at the Grammy’s for She’s So Unusual, amidst 4 other nominations. Lauper would never reach the same sort of stardom again musically following She’s So Unusual, but her legacy was far from over.

She’s So Unusual set the ground for her next True Colors. Released in 1986, the album most notably contained title-track “True Colors”, which would grow to become a primary anthem of the gay rights movement. Lauper would later serve as a key advocate of the LGBT community, and she has fairly consistently addressed homophobia throughout her career.

more tracks from the album

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From the albums

Playlist: The Very Best ’80s Radio Hits
She’s So Unusual (1983)
NOW That’s What I Call Music II [UK] (1984)
Peter’s Friends: The Album (1993)
Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) (1994)
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some (1994)
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar: Music From The Motion Picture (1995)
The Greatest Of The Eighties [SWE] (1996)
Wanna Have Fun (1996)
Riding in Cars with Boys (Music from the Motion Picture) (2001)
Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) (2002)
The Great Cyndi Lauper (2003)
The Essential Cyndi Lauper (2003)
Jentevorspiel - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (2004)
Friends: The Ultimate Soundtrack (2005)
The Body Acoustic (2005)
NOW That’s What I Call The ’80s [US] (2008)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Music from the Motion Picture) (2008)
Just Dance (Official Tracklist) (2009)
80s 100 Hits (2010)
Take Me Out - The Album (2013)
21 Totally 80s Hits (2014)
She’s So Unusual: A 30th Anniversary Celebration (2014)
100 Hits Pure 80s (2016)
Life of the Party (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
NOW That’s What I Call Music! 102 [UK] (2019)
Nous finirons ensemble (Bande Originale) (2019)
NOW 100 Hits Sing-A-Long [UK] (2019)

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Playlist: The Very Best ’80s Radio Hits