"Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

 and Richard Morel

Richard Morel

Richard Morel is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, remixer and record producer from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively with Washington D.C.-based duo Deep Dish, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on many of their tracks, most notably on their albums Junk...

 for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink

Bring Ya to the Brink

Bring Ya to the Brink is Cyndi Lauper's tenth studio album and was released on May 27, 2008 in the United States. The song "Set Your Heart" was released as a promo-only single in Japan in early 2008 and "Same Ol' Story" was the first official single released worldwide on May 6, 2008...

. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay.

The track features an interpolation of "Where Are All My Friends" written by Gene McFadden

Gene McFadden

Gene McFadden was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.-Biography:McFadden met John Whitehead as a teenager...

, John Whitehead

John Whitehead (singer)

John Whitehead was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with Gene McFadden.McFadden and Whitehead wrote many hits for...

 and Victor Carstarphen. "Where Are All My Friends" was a hit single for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco...

 and first appeared on their 1975 album To Be True

To Be True

-Personnel:*Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals*Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon"*MFSB – music-Charts:AlbumSingles-Samples:...

. Cyndi Lauper performed the song frequently during the True Colors Tour 2007 with live drum

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

s and brass

Brass

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin...

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"Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart"

"Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart" is a mashup of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "Set Your Heart", released as a single from Floor Remixes. It was be released in Japan on January 21, 2009 as a CD single (with 2008 printed on it) and as a digital download. Karl Giant directed the music video.

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Japan Hot 100 Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....	11