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‘Fun’ For None

January 13, 2010 2 Comments

As a general rule, I don’t post about songs I don’t dig, but for those of you out there who think the record-smashing success of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” could just be the super-irritating nudge the apocalypse needs to get this end-of-days party started, this next doozy might really seal the deal on our very existence.

It’s not just that J Brazil‘s “Girl I’m Tryin'” dares to flip the gender on Cyndi Lauper‘s ’80s feminist anthem, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” because the late songwriter Robert Hazard did originally pen the tune from a guy’s perspective and later gave Lauper permission to change it up. It’s more so that, well… just listen for yourself:

Even Miley Cyrus’ version didn’t rub me so completely wrong. Thankfully, J Brazil has yet to gain much traction from his Auto-Tuned travesty (please, dear Jeebus, let it remain so), but the track’s very existence begs the question: What has Ms. Lauper done to piss off the universe so majorly?

And will Cyndi’s appearance on the upcoming season of Celebrity Apprentice reset the balance, or simply throw things even more off-kilter?