Boys (Summertime Love)

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"Boys (Summertime Love)"
Boys (Summertime Love) (cover).jpg
Single by Sabrina
from the album Sabrina
B-side "Get Ready (Holiday Rock)"
Released1987
Recorded1986
Genre Italo disco [1]
Length3:55
Label Baby
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Claudio Cecchetto
Sabrina singles chronology
"Lady Marmalade"
(1987)		"Boys (Summertime Love)"
(1987)		"Hot Girl"
(1987)
Audio video
"Boys (Summertime Love)" on YouTube

"Boys (Summertime Love)" is a song by Italian singer Sabrina, released in May 1987 as the third single from her self-titled debut studio album (1987). The song topped the charts in France (where it became the first number-one single by an Italian singer since 1984 [2] ) and Switzerland, while peaking within the top five in Austria, Belgium, Finland, West Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

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It was Sabrina's first single to be released in the United Kingdom, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart in June 1988. Outside Europe, "Boys (Summertime Love)" peaked at number 11 in Australia and number six in South Africa. The song was re-released as a remixed version twice: in France in 1995, retitled as "Boys '95", and in 2003 as "Boys Boys Boys (The Dance Remixes)".

Critical reception

William Shaw from Smash Hits wrote that Sabrina "sings a rather nicely inane tune about boys which jigs about infectiously enough as eurodisco tunes invariably do, but which is somewhat marred by the fact that it's all about hanging around on the beach in the summertime, which is rather inappropriate in January." [3] Another editor, Richard Lowe, said, "Well, it's another brilliantly tragic disco record and if it's not a hit this summer after spurring millions of people to make buffoons of themselves in discos while on 'vacation' I'll eat my hat." [4] In his review published in Record Mirror , James Hamilton described the song as a "plaintively squawked simple sing-song 120bpm Eurobeat canterer from Italy". [5]

Music video

Sabrina in the music video for "Boys (Summertime Love)" Boys (Summertime Love).jpg
Sabrina in the music video for
"Boys (Summertime Love)"

The accompanying music video for "Boys (Summertime Love)" was filmed at the Florida hotel in Jesolo, Italy. In it, Sabrina splashes about in a swimming pool, while her bikini top keeps sliding down, thus repeatedly revealing varying amounts of her nipples. [6] As a result, the BBC added black bars around the image when the video was aired on Top of the Pops in June 1988, effectively cropping it into widescreen. It remains one of the most downloaded video clips on the Internet. [7]

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Boys (Summertime Love)"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [42] Gold500,000*
Germany (BVMI) [43] Gold500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [44] Gold500,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Other versions

In 2006, the song was covered by Aylar Lie. [45] European band Bearforce 1 made a cover of the song in 2008, including the chorus of "Boys (Summertime Love)". Its music video features four men dancing to the song and lipsyncing. [46]

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