The music video was directed by | The treatment for the video was co-written by Griles, Walz, and Cyndi Lauper |
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Helen Hunt is extremely young in this movie, and really funny |
It peaked at number one for two weeks and was on the chart for a total of seven weeks | Zimbabwe Singles Chart Book: 1965-1996 |
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This song is a new -tinged arrangement of Lauper's own "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" standard, with a musical tip of the hat to 's "" | It is the year that certain issues and representations began to gain saliency and the textual strategies of female address began to coalesce |
The bedroom scene is an homage to the famous stateroom scene in the Marx Brothers' film.
The song was a big comeback hit for Lauper, landing in the top 10 and top 40 in several countries | The song received nominations for and |
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The single was Lauper's breakthrough hit, reaching number two on the US chart and becoming a worldwide hit throughout late 1983 and early 1984 | Broadway Video, SNL , 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, leading the entire cast in a snake-dance through New York streets and ending up in Lauper's bedroom in her home |
The melody and Cyndi's excellent vocals are still its selling points, and the success of Cyndi's Twelve Deadly Cyns album suggests the timing could be right to make this a hit again.
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