10 Covers of Popular Songs that are Better than the Originals

7. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper

Another hit from the 80’s (well, covers were pretty common in that decade) made it onto our list. At number seven, we have our pop royal Cyndi Lauper doing a song composed by Robert Hazard in 1979. The original version’s lyrics were changed for Lauper’s version, which is what made it a feminism anthem at the time (and it’s still considered as such).