Song: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”

Song: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”

Released in 1983 as the lead single for Cyndi Lauper’s album She’s So Unusual, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was written by Robert Hazard in 1979. Lauper had to modify some lyrics to be more appropriate for a female singer, and the song would be Hazard’s most famous. It also launched a stretch of success for Lauper, whose debut album would spawn four mega-hits — “Time After Time,” “She Bop,” and “All Through the Night.”The video ran constantly o…