Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)

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"Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)"
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Single by Custard
from the album Loverama
Released5 October 1998 [1]
Length9:32
Label rooArt
Songwriter(s) David McCormack, T Ludlow
Producer(s) Magoo
Custard singles chronology
"Music Is Crap"
(1998)
"Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)"
(1998)
"Hit Song"
(1998)

"Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)" is the first single from Loverama , the fifth album by Custard. It reached #52 on the Australian ARIA singles chart, and spent 24 weeks in the top 100. [2] The song was placed #3 in the 1998 Hottest 100. [3]

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The Andrew Lancaster and David McCormack directed music video won the ARIA Award for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 1999. [4]

McCormack later said, "We were going around in circles. 'Girls Like That' is as far as you can take the ironic love song; you just can't go any further than that." [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)"3:18
2."Caboolture Speed Lab"2:13
3."I'll Never Fall In Love Again"4:02

Charts

Chart (1998–99)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [2] [6] 52

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