Girls (The 1975 song)

"Girls"
Single by The 1975
from the album The 1975
Released	11 November 2013
Genre	Indie pop[1] funk rock[2]
Length	4:14
Label	Dirty Hit
Writer(s)	George Daniel Adam Hann Matthew Healy Ross MacDonald
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:

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]

The 1975 Matthew Healy – vocals, guitar Adam Hann – guitar George Daniel – drums Ross MacDonald – bass guitar

Additional personnel Mike Crossey – producer Mike Spink – engineer Robin Schmidt – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2013–14) Peak position Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[6] 13 Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[7] 62 Denmark (Tracklisten)[8] 3 Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[9] 67 UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[10] 45 US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[11] 23 US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[12] 12 US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[13] 28

Year-end charts Chart (2014) Position US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[14] 66

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		Vargant Interscope

References

1. "Vanscene - The 1975 Girls". 7 January 2015.
2. "Standard - The 1975 review". 14 January 2015.
3. Trendell, Andrew (23 October 2013). "Colour! Pop! Miley Cyrus? The 1975 reveal new video for 'Girls'". Gigwise. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
4. Corner, Lewis. "The 1975 unveil 'Girls' music video – watch". Digital Spy. Condé Nast Publications. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
5. The 1975 (liner notes). The 1975. Dirty Hit. 2013.
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.
14. "Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2014". Billboard. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
15. Aldi, Giorgia. "The 1975 – Girls (Universal)" (in Italian). Radio Airplay SRL. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
16. "Top 40/M Future Releases". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on 21 June 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.