Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cover Versions and Other Uses

Cover Versions and Other Uses

"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" has been covered by many artists, including Katy Perry, Kelly Rowland, Emilie Autumn, Estelle, Miley Cyrus, The Cheetah Girls, Jessie J.

• The Chipettes recorded a popular cover version for the 1984 Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "The Greatest Show-Offs on Earth" and the soundtrack Songs from Our TV Shows. A new recording was released on the 1990 soundtrack Rockin' Through the Decades.
• Big Daddy recorded a version for the 1985 album, Meanwhile...Back in the States, released by the Rhino record company.
• Also in 1985, "Weird Al" Yankovic released a parody entitled "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch" for his album Dare to Be Stupid.
• Greg Laswell's slow version of the song was used in 2007 in an episode of the television series Damages and in 2009 appeared on the soundtracks for the films Confessions of a Shopaholic and My Sister's Keeper. Laswell's version of the song was covered on the third season of the TV show Glee.
• The electronica band Starfucker covered Lauper's song on their 2009 EP Jupiter.
• During the first season of Being Erica, Erica (Erin Karpluk) and her friend Jenny (Paula Brancati) sang the song twice in one episode: Once at a karaoke bar (present day) and in a flashback scene at her Bat Mitzvah during the 2009 episode, "Adultescence".
• In the Daria "Legends of the Mall" episode, Metalmouth's teeth picked up a radio station playing the song.
• In 2012, this song was covered in the film Barbie: The Princess and the Popstar and re-titled to be "Princesses Just Want to Have Fun". Sung by Jennifer Waris.
• A cover can be heard on the 2012 video game Sleeping Dogs where the player can play the song in a SingStar type of mini-game.
• On Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch, Grundgetta and the Grouch girls sang a parody of this song, "Grouch Girls Don't Wanna Have Fun".