Good Girls (5 Seconds of Summer song)

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"Good Girls"
5 Seconds of Summer - Good Girls.png
Single by 5 Seconds of Summer
from the album 5 Seconds of Summer
Released17 November 2014 (2014-11-17)
Recorded2013
Genre Pop rock
Length3:10
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) John Feldmann
5 Seconds of Summer singles chronology
"Amnesia"
(2014)		"Good Girls"
(2014)		"What I Like About You"
(2014)
Music video
"Good Girls" on YouTube

"Good Girls" is a song by Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer, taken from their 2014 self-titled debut album. The song was written by Michael Clifford, Ashton Irwin, Roy Stride, Josh Wilkinson, John Feldmann and Red Triangle's Rick Parkhouse and George Tizzard. [1] The song was announced as the fourth single off their debut album on 7 October 2014. [2]

Contents

Promotion

5 Seconds of Summer performed "Good Girls" on the Australian version of The X Factor 's live results show on last 6 October. [3] They also performed "Good Girls" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show .

Music video

On 7 October 2014, the band started to tease the music video by direct messaging several fans on Twitter about the release date of the video. Then they tweeted the first teaser to fans who did not get the direct message on their Twitter account. On 8 October 2014, they tweeted the second teaser of the music video. The video was released on 10 October 2014. [4]

Extended play

The extended play was released in 2014 which contains four tracks: "Good Girls" (single version), "Just Saying", "Long Way Home" (acoustic), and "Good Girls" (acoustic).

Track listing

CD single [5] and digital EP [6]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Good Girls" (single version)
Feldmann3:10
2."Just Saying"
  • Irwin
  • Stride
  • Clifford
 2:39
3."Long Way Home" (acoustic)
 3:17
4."Good Girls" (acoustic)
  • Irwin
  • Clifford
 3:04
iTunes EP
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Good Girls" (single version)
  • Irwin
  • Clifford
  • Parkhouse
  • Tizzard
  • Stride
  • Wilkinson
  • Feldmann
Feldmann3:10
2."Just Saying"  2:39
3."Long Way Home" (Acoustic)
  • Irwin
  • Clifford
  • Feldmann
  • Gaskarth
 3:17
4."Good Girls" (Live from iTunes Festival)
  • Irwin
  • Clifford
  • Parkhouse
  • Tizzard
  • Stride
  • Wilkinson
 2:39

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [20] Platinum70,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [21] Silver200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [22] Platinum1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatRecord label
Worldwide17 November 2014

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