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Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1983)

Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

 

Girls Just Wanted To Have Fun In The 1980s!

Back in the 1980s, there was a fresh new face on the music scene! Cyndi Lauper debuted her solo career with this instant classic!

It was so fun, fresh, and modern that the day after I first saw that video I danced down to the record store in the mall and bought the album!

Yes, a vinyl record!

When my mother first heard the song she said “they had to know it would be a hit!”

“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was written by Robert Hazard from a male point of view.

Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi changed the lyrics a little (with Hazard’s permission) and turned it into a cheerful feminist anthem about female independence and living her life by her rules!

I became a Cyndi fan immediately! I still am.

Here is the original video!

Ah, the 80s. The last fun decade.

That’s Cyndi’s real-life mom playing, well, her Mom, and wrestler Captain Lou Albano playing her Dad, and singer Steve Forbert playing her boyfriend at the end. 

That ending scene has a Marx Brothers like twist, right?

It’s such a fun video and great song! Nothing better than that!

Cyndi had several other hits on her debut album and won the Best New Artist Grammy.

There is a great article on this song at The Atlantic.

The “Time After Time” Video Was Filmed In New Jersey 

The biggest hit was the follow up, “Time After Time,”  a song that Cyndi co-wrote. This song went to number one for two weeks! 

The video, of course, included many members of Cyndi’s family and her friends.

 The video was shot mostly in New Jersey: Roxbury Township (the now defunct Tom’s Diner), Wharton (outside shots), and the train station in Morristown (got to get those Jersey plugs in!) 

Cyndi is still going strong! 

She won a Tony Award last year for her musical score to “Kinky Boots”

Check out my musical post on New Jersey’s Got Talent!

Thanks for visiting New Jersey Memories!

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