Editing Girls Just Want to Have Fun (section)

==Music video==
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The release of the single was accompanied by a quirky music video. It cost less than US$35,000 ({{Inflation|USD|35000|1983|fmt=eq|r=-3}}), largely due to a volunteer cast and the free loan of the most sophisticated video equipment available at the time. The cast included Lauper's close friend, professional wrestler/[[Manager (professional wrestling)|manager]] "Captain" [[Lou Albano]] in the role of Lauper's father while her real mother, Catrine, played herself. Lauper later appeared in [[WWE|World Wrestling Federation]] storylines opposite Albano and guest-starred on ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' episode "Robo Koopa/Captain Lou is Missing", in which Albano portrayed [[Mario]] (Albano also played himself in the episode). This collaboration was the catalyst for the "Rock 'n' Wrestling" connection that lasted for the following two years. Lauper's attorney, Elliot Hoffman, appeared as her uptight dancing partner. Also in the cast were Lauper's manager, David Wolf, her brother, Butch Lauper, fellow musician [[Steve Forbert]], and a bevy of secretaries borrowed from [[Portrait Records|Portrait]]/[[Sony Music|CBS]], Lauper's record label. A clip of the 1923 film ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' is featured as Lauper watches it on television.

''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' creator [[Lorne Michaels]], another of Hoffman's clients, agreed to give Lauper free run of his brand new million-dollar digital editing equipment, with which she and her producer created several first-time-ever computer-generated images of Lauper dancing with her buttoned-up lawyer Hoffman, leading the entire cast in a snake-dance through New York streets and ending up in Lauper's bedroom in her home. The bedroom scene is an homage to the famous stateroom scene in the [[Marx Brothers]]' film ''[[A Night at the Opera (film)|A Night at the Opera]]'' (1935).

"The year 1983 makes a watershed in the history of female-address video. It is the year that certain issues and representations began to gain saliency and the textual strategies of female address began to coalesce." In the video, Lauper wanted to show in a more fun and light-hearted manner that girls want the same equality and recognition boys had in society.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=Lisa A. |url=https://archive.org/details/genderpoliticsmt00lewirich |title=Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference |publisher=Temple University Press |year=1990 |isbn=9780877226932 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/genderpoliticsmt00lewirich/page/117 117] |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Before the song starts, the beginning of her version of "[[He's So Unusual#Cyndi Lauper version|He's So Unusual]]" plays.

The music video was directed by [[Edd Griles]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=2022-01-24 |title=Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' Joins YouTube's One Billion Views Club |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/cyndi-lauper-girls-just-want-to-have-fun-youtube-one-billion-views-1235022003/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The producer was Ken Walz while the cinematographer was [[Francis Kenny]]. The treatment for the video was co-written by Griles, Walz, and Lauper. The video was shot in the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in summer 1983 and premiered on television in December 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |title=mvdbase.com – Cyndi Lauper – "Girls just want to have fun" |url=http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=16167 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908110434/http://mvdbase.com/video.php?id=16167 |archive-date=September 8, 2018 |access-date=August 10, 2012 |website=mvdbase.com}}</ref> The choreography was by a New York dance and music troupe called XXY featuring Mary Ellen Strom, Cyndi Lee and Pierce Turner.

The music video crossed one billion views on [[YouTube]] in January 2022.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2022-01-24 |title=Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' Tops 1 Billion YouTube Views |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/girls-just-want-to-have-fun-billion-youtube-views-1235161558/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>