"Girl Fight Tonight" is the third single released by singer and comedian Julie Brown

Julie Brown

Julie Ann Brown is an American actress, comedienne, screen/television writer, singer-songwriter, television director. Brown is perhaps best known for her work in the 1980s, where she often played a quintessential valley girl character...

, the second from her only album Trapped in the Body of a White Girl

Trapped in the Body of a White Girl

Trapped in the Body of a White Girl is a 1987 album by Julie Brown. Brown purchased the rights to the album 15 years later and re-released it independently, available exclusively on her website...

. It was released in 12" and 7" vinyl formats as well as on a promotional-only CD

Compact Disc

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. The song is a spoof of the traditional "call-and-response" R&B songs by female girl groups of the 1950s. The comedic lyrics find Brown spewing vitriol at an unnamed blonde adversary who is using unsavory techniques to steal away men. It features chorus girls responding in harmonies: "Oh, all in love is fair! (She'll rip out your hair...)"

The song received a music video which received heavy airplay on MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 due in part to Brown's status as a VJ. The cover of the single features Brown in a cheerleading outfit with pink-spattered paint in the background; this was originally colored red to represent the bloody aftermath of a "girl fight," but was changed due to record label concerns. The "M" on her uniform stands for "Murder".