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 gotta have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "When you gonna live your life right?"
I said don't worry daddy, you're still number one
But girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Good fun
When the working day is done
Oh, girls just wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun
Just wanna

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 gotta have fun
Oh, girls just gotta have fun
Just gotta

I know love me is deep as day is long
You know I never really meant to say it wrong
And when you stop and think about it
I only want the [?]
Girls just gotta have fun
Oh, girls, just wanna have fun

Just wanna, just wanna
Just wanna, they just wanna
Girls just wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Good fun
When the working day is done
Girls just wanna have fun
Girls just wanna have fun
Just wanna

Girls wanna, just wanna
Just wanna, just wanna
Girls just wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun
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Just wanna
Oh, girls just wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Just wanna, just wanna
Just wanna, just wanna
Girls just wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Cyndi Lauper

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.