Cyndi Lauper (b. 1953) recorded ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ in 1983 for her debut album She’s So Unusual, and her version so completely redefined the song that it is now hers in the public mind. She reworked its perspective — subtly changing lyrics to flip it from a man’s point of view into a declaration that women want the same freedoms men take for granted — and turned it into an anthem of female solidarity. This is the rare misattribution where the cover changed what the song means; the only error is forgetting a man wrote it and sang it first.