Released: July 25, 1994

Songwriter: Lolly Vegas Robert Hazard

Producer: Cyndi Lauper Jimmy Bralower

Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right"
Oh mommy dear, we're not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun, girls they wanna have
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "Whatchu gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But girls they wanna have fun, girls they wanna have
That's all they really want, some fun
When the working day is done
You know girls they wanna have fun
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have
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
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
Hey now, hey now
(When the working day is done)
What's the matter with you?
(You know girls they wanna have fun)
Girls just wanna have fun now
(Come on, come on)
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun
(What's the matter with you?)
And the boys they wanna have fun
(Girls just wanna have fun now)
And the girls they wanna have fun
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Come on
(Fun now)
And the boys they wanna have fun
And the girls they wanna have fun
(Wanna have fun now)
And the boys they wanna have fun
(Come on, come on)
And the girls they wanna have
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
Come on
(Come on)
Hey now, hey now
(Oh mommy dear we're not the fortunate ones)
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now
(You know girls they wanna have fun)
(Come on)
Hey now, hey now
What's the matter with you?
Girls just wanna have fun now

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.