Disco synthesizers, kitsch special effects in the clip, ponytails in force… Released in the summer of 1984, the song "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cindy Lauper quickly became a hit. Today it is sung in feminist demonstrations or in the evenings, fist raised. And for good reason: women just want to have fun, it's a snub to the speeches of the patriarchs. But do you know that this song was originally written by a Robert Hazard man?
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Two years before "True Colors"
Cindy Lauper did not like it at all, who saw in it misogynistic words: talking about women who want to have fun when you are a man was, for her, to consider them as easy girls. So the singer changed everything, so that her hit of summer 84 became an ode to women's independence. Like when she sings: "My father screams, but what are you going to do with your life?", And his answer: "Oh dear dad you know that you are and will remain number one", but "the girls want to have fun ".
Two years after "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", activist Cindy Lauper publishes another hit: "True Colors", which becomes an anthem for the LGBT community. "Don't be afraid to show your true color, it is beautiful, like a rainbow," sings the artist.
"True Colors" is also the name that Cindy Lauper gave to her foundation, which fights against homophobia and helps LGBT people in difficulty. A fight in which she has not stopped engaging since. But "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", at the head of sales in Canada for two weeks when it was released in October 1984, gold record in France and number one in Australia, Ireland, Norway and even in New Zealand, remains one of his greatest successes.