Boys Will Be Boys (The Hooters song)

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"Boys Will Be Boys"
The Hooters Boys Will Be Boys 1993 single cover.jpg
Single by the Hooters
from the album Out of Body
Released1993
Genre Pop rock
Length4:30 (single version)
4:42 (album version)
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Rob Hyman
Eric Bazilian
Cyndi Lauper
Producer(s) Joe Hardy
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
The Hooters singles chronology
"Twenty Five Hours a Day"
(1993)		"Boys Will Be Boys"
(1993)		"Private Emotion"
(1993)

"Boys Will Be Boys" is a song by American rock band The Hooters, which was released in 1993 as the second single from their fifth studio album Out of Body . The song was written by Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian and Cyndi Lauper, and produced by Joe Hardy, Bazilian and Hyman. Lauper also provides guest vocals on the song.

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Background

"Boys Will Be Boys" was co-written with Cyndi Lauper, who also contributed guest vocals on the track. She first worked with Hyman and Bazilian on the recording of her 1983 debut album She's So Unusual , which included the Hyman/Lauper-penned "Time After Time". Hyman and Bazilian collaborated with Lauper again for her fourth album Hat Full of Stars (1993) by performing on the album and co-writing five of the tracks, including the single "That's What I Think". [1]

The Hooters originally suggested Lauper record the song herself. Bazilian told The News Journal in 1993: "We thought this would be great for Cyndi. She liked the song, but thought it was better for us, but she did sing on it." [2] The song begins with a ten-second rendition of the chorus of "Wild Mountain Thyme". [3]

Critical reception

In a review of Out of Body, Barbara Jaeger of The Record described the song as an "Irish-inflected rocker" which with "Twenty Five Hours a Day" gets the album "off to a brilliant start". [4] John Everson of the Southtown Star considered the song to be the Hooters' "playful answer" to "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", with Lauper's appearance "brighten[ing] up the proceedings". [5] Scott Benarde of The Palm Beach Post felt the collaboration between the Hooters and Lauper was a "winning formula" on the "muscular pop-rock tune". [6] Ira Robins of Trouser Press described the song as an "ebullient number that could have gone on Lauper's first album". [7]

Track listing

CD single
  1. "Boys Will Be Boys" - 4:30
  2. "All Around the Place" - 3:45
  3. "Thing of Beauty" - 3:23

Personnel

Boys Will Be Boys

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (1993)Peak
position
Germany (Official German Charts) [8] 53
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [9] 20

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References

  1. ↑ Lauper, Cyndi (2012). Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   9781439147856 . Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Behind each Hooters song is a story". The News Journal. May 9, 1993. p. H3.
  3. ↑ Davitt, Patrick (June 21, 1993). "Sensational return". The Leader-Post. p. C11.
  4. ↑ Jaeger, Barbara (July 4, 1993). "U2's clanging cry out of the depths". The Record. p. E5.
  5. ↑ Everson, John (July 15, 1993). "Cyndi Lauper, Hooters returning to the album racks". The Southtown Star. p. 10.
  6. ↑ Benarde, Scott (July 11, 1993). "Thrillcat, Hooters, Waterboys create cool sounds for summer". The Palm Beach Post. p. 4J.
  7. ↑ "Hooters". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  8. ↑ "The Hooters – Boys Will Be Boys" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Hooters – Boys Will Be Boys". Singles Top 100. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
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