◇ image via WikipediaGirls Just Want to Have Fun
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a Disco act. Their sound grew out of Nena, Redbone, The Hooters, Toni Basil and Tracey Ullman. Those roots explain a lot about how Girls Just Want to Have Fun arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Billie Jean, La Isla Bonita, Losing My Religion, All That She Wants and Don't You Want Me, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cyndi Lauper, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Girls Just Want to Have Fun, reaching back through Nena and forward to Cyndi Lauper. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a song written in 1979 by Robert Hazard and made famous in 1983 by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, who changed some of the lyrics. It was released by Portrait Records as Lauper's debut single from her first solo album, She's So Unusual (1983), which was released four days earlier. Lauper's version gained recognition as a feminist anthem and was promoted by an MTV Video Music Award–winning music video directed by Edd Griles. It has been covered by more than 30 other artists.
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun connections
Girls Just Want to Have Fun grew out of Nena, Redbone, The Hooters and Toni Basil, shares an orbit with Billie Jean, La Isla Bonita, Losing My Religion and All That She Wants, went on to shape Cyndi Lauper. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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