Shocking!!

I recently rediscovered my love of the band The Donnas.
So I only recently discovered that they do a cover of Kids in America.
Having falling madly in love with the song and remember hearing many different versions of it over the years I was curious to find out who sang it originally.
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I was thinking along the lines of Zepplin or Kiss or some other classic rock band.
No
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no
It turns out that Kim Wilde was the first to record that song.
How?
Why?
It was originally released as a new wave song (doesn't really work as one in my opinion) and Kim Wilde is British. What the hell does she know about kids in america?
And really I don't think that her being British and singing the song is meant to be irony.

To be honest I am just going to pretend that the Donnas sang it first and that Kim's version is a bad cover.