Girls (The 1975 song)

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"Girls"
File:The 1975 - "Girls".jpg
Single by The 1975
from the album The 1975
Released 11 November 2013
Genre
Length 4:14
Label Dirty Hit
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Daniel
  • Hann
  • Healy
  • MacDonald
  • Mike Crossey
The 1975 singles chronology
"Sex"
(2013)		 "Girls"
(2013)		 "Settle Down"
(2014)

"Girls" is a song by English indie rock band The 1975, originally recorded by the band for their eponymous debut album, The 1975. It appears as the eleventh track on the album. The song impacted contemporary hit radio in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2013 as the album's fourth single. A music video for "Girls" was released on 23 October 2013.

Music video

The official music video for "Girls" was released on 23 October 2013.[3] It follows the video for "Sex", which changed the art style of the band's music videos that were originally monochrome. Rather than reverting to the black-and-white style, the band decided to continue making music videos in color. Speaking about the music video, lead singer and guitarist Matt Healy said:

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When we released our last video ['Sex'], people really reacted to the fact that it was in colour. There was a lot of conjecture and talk surrounding it - due to the fact that it was an unexpected stylistic change. It was brought to our attention that certain people thought we were 'conforming to a record company's wishes' along with other expected and unexpected clichés. Obviously this couldn't be further from the truth, we are lucky enough to be surrounded by a group of individuals whose mantra centres on facilitating our creative wishes, we found the whole idea of us being told what to do fascinating. The story of the band who suffer at the hands of a record label shortly after a delirious rise is a tale as old as time. So we kinda wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek video about it. Twinned with our love of '80s pop, its innocence, grandiosity and conceptual ideas in music videos – we wanted to make a video about a record label's attempt at enforced conformity. We got our mate Adam down to a studio in Los Angeles at the start of our USA tour, got four models and made a video about us not wanting to make a video.[4]

Track listing

UK promotional single
No. Title Length
1. "Girls" (Radio edit) 3:26
2. "Girls" (Instrumental) 4:14
3. "Girls" (Album version) 4:14
Total length:
 8:43

Personnel

Adapted from The 1975 liner notes.[5]

Charts

Release history

Region Date Format Label
United Kingdom[4] 11 November 2013 Contemporary hit radio Dirty Hit
Italy[15] 7 March 2014 Universal
United States[16] 15 July 2014

References

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  6. ↑ "Ultratop.be – The 1975 – Girls" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  7. ↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201439 into search. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – The 1975 – Girls". Tracklisten.
  9. ↑ "SNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201438 into search. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2013-11-09" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  11. ↑ "The 1975 – Chart history" Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 for The 1975. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "The 1975 – Chart history" Billboard Hot Rock Songs for The 1975. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "The 1975 – Chart history" Billboard Pop Songs for The 1975. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
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