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Fun Music Information -> Cyndi Lauper
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Possible Misspelled Names:
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Cindi Lauper, Cyndie Lauper, Cindy LauperQuotes:
My first hit simply means that Girls Just Want to Have Fun, not Girls Just Want to F*ck - excuse me - Girls Just Want to Have Sex. * Cyndi said this in an interview in 1984* Submitted by: Take It As Face Value
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Jokes:
Years and years ago, Janet Jackson suffered a "malfunction disorder." Cyndi Lauper suffers from a disorder, too; "M.C.S.D." (Make-up, Clothing, and Singing Disorder). Don't worry; the disease is non-fatal, and you don't even get sick from it; It just makes you look like a nut. Submitted by: Jeff Williams
| Famous Initials In Television and Music - "M*A*S*H; Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" .. "C.L.A.N.; Cyndi Lauper's A Nut" Submitted by: Jeff Williams
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Music Performer Pseudonyms:
Also known as: Cynthia Anne Stephanie Lauper. Submitted by: shehateme
Music Performer Nicknames:
Known informally as: Cyn. Submitted by: Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Weird Names of Music Performer's Children:
- Declan - My name is Declan and it is not, as many people think, Irish. It is Gaelic for 'beloved'. I like it because it's different. I've only ever known 1 other Declan. Submitted by: Declan
- Declyan - Son, with David Thornton, Declyan Wallace Thornton Lauper [19 November 1997] Named after Elvis Costello (real name Declan Patrick MacManus)but spelled traditionally. Submitted by: mtlvr
- Declan - An Irish name Submitted by: Patti Smith
Singers Who Act:
Notable Acting Credits | Comments & Submitter Name |
| "Mad About You" | Won an emmy in 1995 for performance - qua006 |
Song Titles Not Used as Lyrics:
Song Name | Comments & Submitter Name |
| "The Goonies R Good Enough" | The Goonies are never mentioned in the song even though it was from the movie. "Good enough" is mentioned several times. - MOR |
New Song Names:
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "Hale-Bopp" | "She Bop" | Comet Viewer |
| "Squirrels Just Want To Have Fun" | "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" | Tess O. Gosset |
| "Girls Just Want to Have Sex" | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | 1984 Star |
| "Girls Just Taunt To Have Fun" | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | Jennifer Howard |
| "Girls Just Haunt To Have Fun" | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | Jennifer Howard |
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Literally Impossible Song Titles:
Song/Performer | Comment | Submitter Name |
| "Money Changes Everything," | There are things that money has no effect on. | Heather Brockwell |
| "Hat Full Of Stars," | Stars won't fit in a hat (plus they'd vaporize it) | Megan Ura |
| "Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)," | Cyndi must have a huge heart with a hole that big! | Zeke |
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | |
| "What Does A Girl Do?," Marcie Blane | "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," Cyndi Lauper | |
| "What A Girl Wants," Christina Aguilera | "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," Cyndi Lauper | |
| "Is There Something I Should Know?," Duran Duran | "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," Cyndi Lauper | |
| "See Emily Play," Pink Floyd | "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," Cyndi Lauper | |
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Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"Time After Tie" originally "Time After Time"
In sports games, would be 'overtime'
Serafina
"True Coors" originally "True Colors"
There's no substitute for this beer.
Joe
"Hole In My Heart (All The Way To Chia)" originally "Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)"
All the way to her Chia pet?
Regina Olsen
"Hole In My Heart (All The Way To Chin)" originally "Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)"
Much shorter but still serious hole in one's heart
Penelope Beckinsale
"She Bo" originally "She Bop"
Lauper's salute to Bo Derek?
The Big Guy
There are additional song titles with a letter removed available.
Add a Letter to a Song Title:
"I Had A Clove" originally "I Had A Love"
Yvette Bristle
"I Had A Glove" originally "I Had A Love"
Yvette Bristle
"I Had A Lover" originally "I Had A Love"
Yvette Bristle
"Girls Just Want To Have Faun" originally "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Again, faun= that mythical part goat, part human.
Ingrid McCannless
"Monkey Changes Everything" originally "Money Changes Everything"
Marge Pegram
There are additional song titles with a letter added available.
Change a Letter:
"Monet Changes Everything" originally "Money Changes Everything"
Edward
"Witless" originally "Witness"
Nancy
"Fitness" originally "Witness"
Nancy
"I Hid A Love" originally "I Had A Love"
Britney Spears into pruning hooks
"I Had A Dove" originally "I Had A Love"
Yvette Bristle
There are additional song titles with a letter changed available.
Song Parody Lyrics:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Girls Just Want To Have Fun " | "Girls Just Want To Have Rights " | eeL deaL |
| "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" | "Girls Just Wanna Get Fat" | PikaJoe |
| "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" | "Cooks Just Wanna Have Buns" | The Parody Author |
| "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" | "Trashing Conald Is Fun" | eel deal |
| "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | "SciGirls Just Want to Have Fun" | LoriLoud33 |
| "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" | "Guys Just Wanna Be Tall" | Ten Second Braeden |
| "La Vie En Rose (English)" | "La Vie En Lori" | LoriLoud33 |
| "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" | "Squirrels Just Wanna Have Fun" | Deb Hunter and Kim Soltero, adapted by Chloe Gioia |
| "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun 2.0 (The Official American Girl Anthem)" | AmericanGirlFan8998 |
| "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | "Earl Just Wants to Drink Bud" | Dr. Oliver Clozoff |
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Songs for Commercials, That Haven't Been Done Yet:
Song Name | Product | Submittor |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | girlzChannel | americangirlfan8998 |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | SciGirls (PBS Kids) | americangirlfan8998 |
| Money Changes Everything | State lottery | Edward |
| True Colors | Verilux® or other neodymium lightbulbs | Raphael |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Lesbians | KEM |
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| Girls Just Want to Have Fun | Radical Meninists HQ | Maximus Buttcrack |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Women's Prison | Jake |
| Money Changes Everything | Martha Stewart's house | Ed |
| I Want A Mom That Will Last Forever | Foster Home | David |
| Time After Time | Retirement Home | ICP4EVER |
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Songs for Duets, That Haven't Been Done Yet:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| A Change Would Do You Good Sheryl Crow | Change Of Heart Cyndi Lauper | A Change Of Heart Would Do You Good | Rachel |
| Most Girls Pink | Girls Just Want To Have Fun Cyndi Lauper | Most Girls Just Want To Have Fun | Rachel |
| Girl From Mars Ash | Girls Just Want To Have Fun Cyndi Lauper | Girls From Mars Just Want To Have Fun | Ashley Michelle McGowan |
| Valley Girl Frank Zappa | Girls Just Want To Have Fun Cyndi Lauper | Valley Girls Just Want To Have Fun Like totally! | Edward |
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If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be:
The Prince and the Lauper
Prince combined with Cyndi Lauper
One letter off from the title of a classic Mark Twain novel.
Submitted By: Joe
Cyndi Grecco Lauper
Cyndi Grecco combined with Cyndi Lauper
Both singers just happen to spell their first names the same way.
Submitted By: Gus
Def Lauper
Def Leppard combined with Cyndi Lauper
Known for their hit song "Sugar Bop!"
Submitted By: Cat
Dua Laupa
Cyndi Lauper combined with Dua Lipa
Submitted By: nally
There are additional Cyndi Lauper Combined Groups that haven't been done yet available.
Misheard Lyrics:
"Change of Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm afraid
Original Lyrics: I'm your friend
| "All Through The Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Then once we start then we eat Sucrets
Original Lyrics: And once we start the meter clicks.
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"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
Misheard Lyrics: (Break the water, break the water.)
Original Lyrics: (They just want, they just wanta.)
| "She Bop"
Misheard Lyrics: Well, I see 'em every night in diapers and jeans
In the pages of Playboy magazine (later) Hey, hey they say I better get a bathroom robe or Hey, hey they say I better get a bathroom roll or Hey, hey they say I better get a jacket on Because my cat stopped messin' when I'm dangerous Original Lyrics: Well, I see 'em every night in tight blue jeans
In the pages of a Blueboy magazine (later) Hey, hey they say I better get a chaperone Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone |
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Misheard Lyrics Stories:
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"All Through The Night"
Misheard Lyrics: Then once we start then we eat Sucrets
Original Lyrics: And once we start the meter clicks.
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Story about this misheard lyric by: tashaannbaker . I was 8 years old when the song came out and I didn't doubt for a minute that she would be singing about Sucrets |
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Song Parody Fragments:
"I Don't Wanna Be A Witness"
Better Lyrics:
I Don't Wanna Deal With This
Original Lyrics:
I Don't Wanna Be A Witness
Submitted by: Jeffrey S Fallon
Repetitive Song Lyrics:
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
The Repetitive Lyrics: Girls just wanna have fun
Why They're Repetitive: So I guess by candle light dinner if someone asks what do girls wanna do... they gonna be stuck for the rest of the night hearing you say 'Girls just wanna have fun?'
Submitted by: Ixeus
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Nonsensical Song Lyrics:
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: Some boys take a beautiful girl
and hide her away from the rest of the world. I want to be the one to walk in the sun Oh girls they wanna have fun. Why They're Nonsensical: How can you take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world and have *her* be the one to walk in the sun?
Submitted by: Celeste
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Inappropriate Song Lyrics:
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
The Inappropriate Lyrics: Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world.
Why They're Inappropriate: Sure, some boys take a beautiful girl, just like some boys take another cute boy and some girls take a beautiful girl and so on... but, um, Cyndi, isn't "hiding them away from the rest of the world" sometimes considered kidnapping?
Submitted by: Diddims
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Dirty Song Lyrics:
"She Bop"
The Dirty Lyrics: We-hell-I see them every night in tight blue jeans-- In the pages of a Blue Boy magazine
Huh, yea, I wanna go south n get me some more They say I better stop--or I'll go blind.. Why They're Dirty: OK so the entire song is about masturbation, we know that. What people seem to miss is that the second line of the song mentions Blue Boy magazine which is a prominent gay men's porn mag. So now we know what she is masturbating too (Go Cyndi). Later she mentions going south and the old myth about going blind. Further on she talks about not being able to stop (almost an addictive quality to it). Its a great song, not at all subtle - yet so many people missed it. I love it.
Submitted by: Harry May
| "She Bop"
The Dirty Lyrics: She bop--he bop--a--we bop
I bop--you bop--a--they bop Be bop--be bop--a--lu--she bop, I hope he will understand She bop--he bop--a--we bop I bop--you bop--a--they bop Be bop--be bop--a--lu--she bop, Oo--oo--she--do--she bop--she bop Why They're Dirty: It's no wonder this song is at the bottom of the Parent's Music Rresource Center's Filthy Fifteen. It's pretty obivous that this song is about masturbation. The chorus makes it that obvious.
Submitted by: Celeste
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How to Pronounce a Band Name:
"Sin-dee Law-per
Submitted by: Eric
Song Lyrics That Mention Brand Name Products:
"She Bop"
The Lyrics: We-hell I see them every night in tight blue jeans
In the pages of Blueboy magazine Product Brand Name: Blueboy magazine
Submitted by: Tarzan
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Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"You Don't Know"
Opening Lines: You don't know where you belong.
Comments: Submitted by: Brian Kelly
| "All Through The Night"
Opening Lines: All through the night I'll be awake and I'll be with you
Comments: Submitted by: Peter
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Song Title Space Change:
"Kind Red Spirit" originally "Kindred Spirit"
Submitted by: Yvette Bristle
"I'd Rove All Night" originally "I Drove All Night"
Cyndi Lauper imitates Karl Rove?
Submitted by: George Straitjacket
"Tim E. After Tim E." originally "Time After Time"
Submitted by: George Straitjacket
Band Name Anagrams:
Cindy Lauper Submitted by: Angelica Monghan
Now gives her first name the more common spelling.
Pure Icy Land Submitted by: Alexis
Antarctica, anyone?
Up A Cylinder Submitted by: Alexis
I'd Prune Clay Submitted by: Alexis
I Pruned Clay Submitted by: Alexis
Prune as a verb can mean to reduce
There are additional Band Name Anagrams available.
Song Title Anagrams:
"The Hall Trough Thing" originally "All Through The Night"
Submitted by: Angelica Monghan
"The Night Hall Trough" originally "All Through The Night"
Submitted by: Angelica Monghan
"Tall, Though Her Thing" originally "All Through The Night"
Submitted by: Evangeline York
"Everyone Changes My Thing" originally "Money Changes Everything"
Submitted by: Candy Welty
"Gretchen Gave Shiny Money" originally "Money Changes Everything"
Submitted by: Candy Welty
There are additional Song Title Anagrams available.
Real Places Mentioned in Songs:
"Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)"
The Lyrics: This hole in my heart that goes all the way to China
Why: A reference to the country of China, even though the notion of a "hole all the way to China" is a cliched hyperbole. It is an expression that I've often heard in the U.S. at least, where it seems to be used as if China represented the complete opposite side of the world from the U.S. It actually does not, by quite a long way. For most of the U.S. at least, the actual antipode (compete opposite side of the Earth) is somewhere in the Indian Ocean, closer to Australia than to China.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
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Song Title Acrostics:
TAT: "Time After Time"
As in 'tit for tat'.
Submitted by: shepop
Song Title Spoonerisms:
"Di, Rove All Night" originally "I Drove All Night"
Submitted by: D. Melody Dole, MD
"Furls Just Want To Have Gun" originally "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Submitted by: Emily Lime
"Girls Just Taunt, Woo, Have Fun" originally "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
Submitted by: Consta Pate
"Bee Shop" originally "She Bop"
Submitted by: Olga Ruiz
Band Name Spoonerisms:
Lindy Copper originally "Cyndi Lauper"
Her last name is pronounced 'law-per".
Submitted by: Shepop
Lighter Side of Serious Bands:
"She Bop"
I'm not sure what category this belongs to but here goes: I take it we all know what this hit's lyrics are about. In the video where Cyndi appears before a judge in a "morality tribunal" courtroom (on a "bopping" charge no less) the judge opens a thick lawbook. On the cover it says "The Big Bopper" which is the stage name of J.P. Richardson - who died in the 1958 plane crash that also took the lives of Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.
Submitted by: Video Viewer
What A Band is Best Known For (aside from their music):
"Being At The Bottom Of Tipper Gore's List "
The Filthy Fifteen list with She-Bop which was said to be about masturbation.
Submitted by: Celeste
Movies Named After Song Titles:
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
1985 film w/ Sarah Jessica Parker & Helen Hunt
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
