Girls & Boys (Blur song)

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"Girls & Boys"? Four notes. And the chorus is "Boys, Girls, Love". That's quite a universal message, isn't it?

—Damon Albarn [11]

Damon Albarn was inspired to write the song while on holiday in Magaluf, Spain, with then-girlfriend Justine Frischmann, lead singer of Elastica. According to Albarn, the city had "really tacky Essex nightclubs" and a rampant sexual scene among visitors, with "All these blokes and all these girls meeting at the watering hole and then just copulating. There's no morality involved, I'm not saying it should or shouldn't happen." The music has a convergence of various pop and dance styles, summed up by bassist Alex James as "Disco drums, nasty guitars and Duran Duran bass." [11] Drummer Dave Rowntree admitted that he is not playing on the track, being replaced by a drum machine he programmed. He said it was his favourite song on Blur: The Best Of (2000) because he "isn't really in it. It's cool not being in your own song." [12] The vocals were recorded with a demo featuring only the keyboards. [13] This song is written in the key of G minor. [14]

Release

Producer Stephen Street felt that while "Girls & Boys" was not like Blur's previous songs, "I thought it would be Top 5 – it was so downright basic. I felt the way I had when I produced the Smiths: that as long as Morrissey was singing on it, it would be the Smiths. It was the same with Blur: they could put their hands to anything, and it would still sound like Blur." [15] The song indeed reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, Blur's first foray into the top 5. Despite the band having big expectations for the single, guitarist Graham Coxon said "going top five was a bit of a shocker", and Albarn confessed to having his first panic attack shortly after the single entered the charts. [11]

Critical reception

AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described "Girls & Boys" as "undeniably catchy" and "one of the best (songs) Blur ever recorded", praising the band for making the song "feel exactly like Eurotrash", and stating that the chorus was "an absolutely devastating put-down of '90s gender-bending, where even ambi-sexuals didn't know whose fantasy they were fulfilling." [16] Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Alternative band takes a detour into clubland with an amusing, word-twisting ditty fleshed out with a trance-like synth energy and a hard, syncopated beat, courtesy of the Pet Shop Boys. Way-hip single's primary selling point is the brain-numbing refrain "girls who want boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys." Try saying that three times fast. A good bet for dancefloor action, track should also get a crack at pop/crossover radio." [17]

Troy J. Augusto from Cash Box felt that "this track will light up dance floors first, with top-40 and even some experimental urban radio stations close behind. Not what we've come to expect from this quirky guitar-pop combo, which is part of the appeal here. And don't be surprised if RuPaul records a cover of this tasty gem." [18] Chuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel wrote in his review of Parklife , "That great song, "Girls & Boys", is a twisting, slapping, lusty and instantly satisfying neo-disco track featuring Graham Coxon's teasing guitar and Damon Albarn's endearing vocals." He added, "Those who allow Parklife to continue playing after the conclusion of "Girls & Boys" will be disappointed initially, because nothing else on the album is so acutely infectious." [19] Steve Hochman from Los Angeles Times praised it as a "delightfully sly single". [20]

Jennifer Nine from Melody Maker said, "The one reprised here is the simultaneously fey and yobbish, clever and incredibly ugly sounds of Roxy Music/XTC/Gary Numan/anything with keyboards worked up to sound deliberately mechanical and ironic and unpleasant." [21] A reviewer from Music & Media viewed it as a "comical pastiche on '80s "new romantics"." [22] Martin Aston from Music Week gave it four out of five, complimenting it as "an irresistibly feisty pop bite and, as such, a probable Top 10 hit." [23] John Kilgo from The Network Forty described it as an "outstanding, infectious" tune. [24] Ian McCann from NME named it I'm as Surprised as You are, Sheer Chutzpah Single of the Week, adding, "The tongue lolling, deliberately camp-yobbish, mindless delivery and drooling lyrics defy categorisation. The rinky-disco beat is where Sparks meet Giorgio Moroder in his Son of My Father era, the phased guitar adds a rock noise to the mess, and that chorus! Surrender now, it will beat you in the end." [25]

Paul Evans from Rolling Stone felt it is "echoing '80s synth pop". [26] Sylvia Patterson from Smash Hits rated it four out of five, writing, "An organ-grinder of synth pings and guitar perks which sounds just like Elastica (whose singer Damon snogs). It is the sound of Now! (ie 1982) which was a good sound so that's all right. Sort of." [27] Rob Sheffield from Spin described the song as "a scrumptiously sleek Duran-gänger, sounding exactly like the Fab Five circa "Planet Earth" and "Hungry Like the Wolf"." He added, "Over a Eurodisco bass line, vocalist Damon Albarn croons about a beach full of teenagers stewing in their own auto-erotic juices: "Nothing is wasted / Only reproduced / You get nasty blisters / Du bist sehr schön, but we haven't been introduced"." [28] James Hunter from Vibe called it a "brilliant turn on new wave disco that boasts the year's best bent guitars. They bounce all this into a great English, um, blur." [29]

Music video

The accompanying music video for "Girls & Boys" was directed by English singer, songwriter, musician and music video director Kevin Godley. It features Blur performing the song against a bluescreen backdrop of documentary footage of people on Club 18-30 package holidays. Godley branded the video as "Page 3 rubbish", while Blur found it "perfect". The front cover of the single was taken from a pack of Durex condoms. [11]

Legacy

The song is included on two compilations albums: Blur: The Best Of (2000) [30] and Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur (2009). In 2003, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke confessed on BBC Radio 1 that he wished he had written the song, jokingly calling Blur "bastards" for writing it first. [31] [32] In 2004, Q magazine featured the song in their list of "The 1010 Songs You Must Own". In 2010, Pitchfork included the song at number 26 on their "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s". [33] In 2017, Stopera and Galindo from BuzzFeed remarked the song as "a great reminder of just how brilliant Blur was throughout the '90s." [34]

Pet Shop Boys, who provided a remix of the track for the single release, later covered the song during their Discovery tour in 1994. Their remix was also included on the Japanese version of the Parklife album. "Blurred" by Pianoman features the chorus (sampled from the Pet Shop Boys 12-inch remix) as its key lyric. The single peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart in 1996. The song was covered by French singer Mélanie Pain on her 2009 album My Name . American alternative rock band the Get Up Kids performed a version of the song in July 2011 for The A.V. Club 's A.V. Undercover series. [35]

Track listings

All music was composed by Albarn, Coxon, James and Rowntree. All lyrics were written by Albarn with the exception of "Maggie May", written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton.

"Girls & Boys"
Girls & Boys CD2.jpg
Single by Blur
from the album Parklife
B-side
  • "Magpie"
  • "People in Europe"
  • "Anniversary Waltz"
  • "Peter Panic"
Released7 March 1994 (1994-03-07)
Genre
Length
  • 4:50 (album version)
  • 4:18 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Stephen Street
Blur singles chronology
"Sunday Sunday"
(1993)		"Girls & Boys"
(1994)		"To the End"
(1994)
Music video
"Girls & Boys" on YouTube

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [69] Platinum600,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom7 March 1994
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [70]
Japan11 May 1994Mini-CD
 [71]

Vandalism version

"Girls & Boys"
Girls & Boys cover.jpg
Single by Vandalism
Released4 January 2005
Label Vicious Vinyl
Songwriter(s)
Vandalism singles chronology
"Girls & Boys"
(2005)		"Never Say Never"
(2006)

"Boys & Girls" was covered by Australian dance band Vandalism and released as a single in 2005.

Track listing

  1. "Boys & Girls" (Radio edit)
  2. "Boys & Girls" (Ivan Gough And Grant Smillie Remix Radio Edit)
  3. "Boys & Girls" (Extended Mix)
  4. "Boys & Girls" (Ivan Gough & Grant Smillie Remix)

Charts

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [72] 80
Australia Club Tracks (ARIA) [72] 8
Australia Dance (ARIA) [72] 11

Release history

CountryRelease dateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia4 January 2005CD single, downloadViciousVG12029CD

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