Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1983 Music Video) User Reviews

It's the 80s baby

[Calicodreamin · 7/10 · 26 October 2021]

This music video screams the 80s and Cyndi Lauper, with the wild hair and colorful outfits. It's a great song and a fun video, I would expect nothing less.

More fun to listen to than to watch I guess

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 25 June 2017]

These 4.5 minutes we have here are the music video for the Cyndi Lauper song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" directed by Edd Griles, still a very well-known tune today almost 35 years after its release. Lauper was around the age of 30 back then, maybe slightly under, and in this film she basically tries to convince her parents that all she wants is really just to have fun. The second half of the film then is basically a(n outdoor) party with all her friends. So yes this is a really catchy tune without a doubt and it makes up for the lack of depth in the lyrics, which basically nothing but the chorus. At least this chorus is a statement that is still really true today several decades later. The video is really very random though and not memorable at all I must say. Kinda shocked to see this got a great deal of awards attention at the VMAs back then. I think it is enough if you listen to the song without watching the music video. That song was a huge hit back then and I am not surprised. Thanks to the catchy music, I will be generous and give a thumbs-up here.

The 80s

[safenoe · 8/10 · 6 February 2024]

Lou Albano, a very famous manager in the World Wrestling Federation from the 1980s, plays Cyndi Lauper's Dad in this iconic video of one of the most famous pop songs from the 1980s and probably the history of the world, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. It's hard to believe Girls Just Want to Have Fun was released 41 years ago, wow, that's over four decades ago, and the song is timeless and is kind of the pre-anthem to the Spice Girls who came on to the scene over a decade later to take on the world with their empowerment of Girl Power and Wanting to Have Fun and all init, so this video works well init.