Girls (Dom Dolla song)

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"Girls"
Dom Dolla - Girls.png
Single by Dom Dolla
Released7 June 2024 (2024-06-07)
Length3:29
Label
Songwriter(s) Dominic Matheson
Producer(s) Dom Dolla
Dom Dolla singles chronology
"Saving Up"
(2023)
"Girls"
(2024)

"Girls" (stylised as "girl$") is a song by Australian record producer Dom Dolla, featuring uncredited vocals by Caitlin Stubbs and released on 7 June 2024. [1] [2]

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About the track, Dom Dolla said that the song is inspired from a conversation he had with his friends who had experienced of bad dates. Dolla said "I recorded it and heavily affected my vocals, but felt it needed a strong female performance, so I reached out to my good pal Caitlin Stubbs and asked if she was keen to re-perform the vocal, her voice is fantastic and suits the record so well… I even left some crumbs of my vocal in there, too." [2] [1]

Critical reception

Rachel Narozniak from Beat Portal said "The single hits like a shot of pure adrenaline; it's saucy, it's empowering, it's unequivocally for the girls." [3]

Versions

Digital download

Charts

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