The Girls (Calvin Harris song)

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"The Girls"
The girls c harris.jpg
Single by Calvin Harris
from the album I Created Disco
B-side "Rock N Roll Attitude"
Released4 June 2007
Length
  • 5:15 (album version)
  • 3:52 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s) Calvin Harris
Producer(s) Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris singles chronology
"Acceptable in the 80s"
(2007)
"The Girls"
(2007)
"Merrymaking at My Place"
(2007)
Music video
"The Girls" on YouTube

"The Girls" is a song by Scottish musician Calvin Harris. It was released as the second single from his debut studio album, I Created Disco (2007), on 4 June 2007. "The Girls" was Harris' highest charting single on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number three on 10 June 2007. The demo version leaked on file sharing in April 2006 before I Created Disco was released after being featured on Pete Tong's Essential Selection. [1] The song has been covered by electropop outfit Dragonette, who changed the main lyric to "The Boys".

Contents

Music video

The video features a group of women in brightly coloured wigs and underwear performing a dance routine around Harris.

Track listings

UK 12-inch single (FLYEYE 006) [2]
No.TitleLength
1."The Girls" (album version)5:15
2."Rock N Roll Attitude"3:19
3."The Girls" (Micky Slim's Bomb Squad mix)7:09
UK 12-inch single (Groove Armada remixes) (FLYEYE 009) [3]
No.TitleLength
1."The Girls" (Groove Armada remix)8:04
2."The Girls" (Groove Armada dub)7:47
Australian maxi-CD single (FLYEYE 005) [4]
No.TitleLength
1."The Girls" (radio edit)3:52
2."Rock N Roll Attitude"3:19
3."The Girls" (Groove Armada remix)8:04
4."The Girls" (Micky Slim's Bomb Squad mix)7:09
Digital download EP [5]
No.TitleLength
1."The Girls"5:18
2."The Girls" (Groove Armada remix)8:05
3."The Girls" (Micky Slim's Bomb Squad mix)7:11
4."The Girls" (Groove Armada dub)7:48

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [13] Gold35,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [14] Silver200,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom4 June 2007[ citation needed ]
Australia6 August 2007CD
  • Fly Eye
  • Columbia
  • Red Label
  • Sony BMG
[15]

"The Girls" has often been associated with the fictional EastEnders characters Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell. When they were introduced in 2007, a trailer announcing their arrival featured the song which showed Roxy dancing wildly and Ronnie spraying the residents with a soda syphon as some cheer them on whilst others look dismayed. [16] The song featured in a 2013 episode of show which showed Roxy dancing to the song whilst drunk before falling off a table. "The Girls" was finally featured in the pair's final episode in 2017 at Ronnie's wedding where the arrival trailer is recreated as Ronnie and Roxy both spray the wedding attendees with soda syphons. [17] [18]

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