Cyndi Lauper Influence On Teenage Girls
In the 1980’s, Cyndi Lauper gave a new meaning to ‘girl power’. As a singer, songwriter, musician, and actress, Cyndi has continued to stay true to her roots. Being a New York Native with an awry past, Cyndi developed a stage of rebellion in her youth. After leaving home and dropping out of high school, Cyndi began pursing her music career.
In the 1970s Cyndi began singing with cover bands, and later co-founded Blue Angel. Although Cyndi expected great success, Blue Angel’s first album flopped and Cyndi had no other choice to go solo if she wanted to continue a music career. Back to singing at local clubs, Cyndi was shortly discovered by David Wolff, who also became her lover. Signing with Portrait Records, the production of her first album …show more content…
Being a pop icon with a unique rebellious punk style, allowed her to connect in all aspects. In this single, the song is lensed through a teenage girl’s perspective. In the 80s, what did it meant to be a teenage girl? The age of puberty and rebellion, took the teenage girls to experiment with different styles of hair and clothing. The title of the single itself, carries a strong message of feminism. Although a lot of people proclaimed the lyrics expressed sexual desire and rebellions actions, according to Cyndi the song overall was to express fun time and equality amongst man. For instance, the lyrics, “some boys take a beautiful girl, and hide her away from the rest of the world. I wanna be the one to walk in the sun” defines the independency and the happiness that at the end “girls just want to have fun, that’s all they really want”. The music video of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun also expresses Cyndi’s quirky punk style, allowing young females to copy her wardrobe and lifestyle. Within the music video you can see how Cyndi’s way of life, disrupts the norm of her generation with her sense of style and singing. In fact, just two years later, a movie was named after the song. Director, Alan Metter, told a story of a teenage girl rebelling against her strict colonel father. Capturing the title’s interpretation of girls just wanna have
In the 1970s Cyndi began singing with cover bands, and later co-founded Blue Angel. Although Cyndi expected great success, Blue Angel’s first album flopped and Cyndi had no other choice to go solo if she wanted to continue a music career. Back to singing at local clubs, Cyndi was shortly discovered by David Wolff, who also became her lover. Signing with Portrait Records, the production of her first album …show more content…
Being a pop icon with a unique rebellious punk style, allowed her to connect in all aspects. In this single, the song is lensed through a teenage girl’s perspective. In the 80s, what did it meant to be a teenage girl? The age of puberty and rebellion, took the teenage girls to experiment with different styles of hair and clothing. The title of the single itself, carries a strong message of feminism. Although a lot of people proclaimed the lyrics expressed sexual desire and rebellions actions, according to Cyndi the song overall was to express fun time and equality amongst man. For instance, the lyrics, “some boys take a beautiful girl, and hide her away from the rest of the world. I wanna be the one to walk in the sun” defines the independency and the happiness that at the end “girls just want to have fun, that’s all they really want”. The music video of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun also expresses Cyndi’s quirky punk style, allowing young females to copy her wardrobe and lifestyle. Within the music video you can see how Cyndi’s way of life, disrupts the norm of her generation with her sense of style and singing. In fact, just two years later, a movie was named after the song. Director, Alan Metter, told a story of a teenage girl rebelling against her strict colonel father. Capturing the title’s interpretation of girls just wanna have