10 Covers You Keep Mistaking For The Original Song
1. Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Original Artist: Robert Hazard
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is the song that turned Cyndi Lauper in to a bonafide superstar of music in the early 1980s. The song sold several million copies the world over, was integral to the fabled Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection, and remains one of the undisputed juggernauts of pop music even today.
This is why it might shock many to learn that it was actually a cover. The original version of Girls Just Want to Have Fun was written, recorded and released as a demo by musician Robert Hazard four years before Lauper's version hit the shelves.
With Hazard's blessing, Lauper took the song, tweaked the lyrics just a tad, and turned the relatively unknown track into platinum, award-winning mega-hit that very few pop songs can claim to be more popular than. It's become so popular, that learning that it's a cover may be news even to those who have been listening to it since it first came out.