"Girls"
File:Girls Beastie Boys.jpg
Single by Beastie Boys
from the album Licensed to Ill
B-side "She's Crafty"
Released May 6, 1987
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1986
Genre Hip hop
Length 2:14
Label Def Jam, Columbia
Writer(s) Beastie Boys, Rick Rubin
Producer Rick Rubin
Beastie Boys singles chronology
"No Sleep till Brooklyn"
(1987)
"Girls"
(1987)
"Hey Ladies"
(1989)

"Girls" is a song by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released as the seventh and final single from their debut album Licensed to Ill. Like "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)", this song was never performed live and it is one of the few songs on the album that are not in the vein of their standard rap songs.

Contents

Song structure and lyrics [link]

The song is the shortest on the album, lasting just over 2 minutes long. The song's instrumental is relatively simple, consisting of a drum beat being played over a vibrophone loop, with occasional pauses.

Lyrically, the song talks about the narrator (Ad-Rock)'s desire for women. He recalls a previous experience with a woman, who loves his "homepiece" MCA, who refuses to "give her play". He asks him if he can spend time with her, and after being given approval, they take a walk down to a bay, where she rejects his proposal to date her. She eventually moves away, but in the present day the narrator sees her again, "jocking Mike D to [his] dismay".

Covers [link]

Kesha made a female version "Boys" using the same beat only it was electronic and her lyrics display boys the same way that the Beastie Boys do about girls in the final part of their song and in 2005 Molotov released a cover version of "Girls" on their album Con Todo Respeto.

Charts [link]

Chart (1987) Peak
position
New Zealand Singles Chart 27
UK Singles Chart[1] 34

References [link]



https://wn.com/Girls_(Beastie_Boys_song)

Girls (disambiguation)

A girl is a young female human.

Girls or The Girls may also refer to:

Film and television

  • Les Girls, a 1957 musical directed by George Cukor
  • The Girls (1961 film), a USSR comedy directed by Yuri Chulyukin
  • The Girls (1968 film), a Swedish drama directed by Mai Zetterling
  • The Girls (2007 film), a British short starring Duncan Duff
  • Girls (1980 film), a French-West German-Canadian drama film directed by Just Jaeckin
  • Girls (1919 film)
  • Girls (2014 film), a Chinese film directed by Wong Chun-chun
  • "Girls" (Serial Experiments Lain episode)
  • Girls (TV series), a 2012 HBO series
  • Literature

  • Girls (comics)
  • The Girls (novel), by Lori Lansens
  • "Girls" (short story), a short story by Mrinal Pande
  • The Girls, a 1921 novel by Edna Ferber
  • Music

    Performers

  • The Girls (1960s band), an American pop group
  • Girls (band), an American indie rock band from San Francisco
  • Girls (punk band), an American West Coast punk band associated with The Screamers
  • Songs and albums

  • "Girl" (Beatles song)
  • "Girls" (album), by Eric Stewart, 1980
  • Amber Lily

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    Biography

    Early life and first studio album (1997-2008)

    Amber Lily Solberg was born on January 18, 1997 near Los Angeles, California, to parents Eric Solberg and Maria Elena Baduria. She is half Norwegian and half Filipino. Solberg began singing at the age of 5, where she sang Christina Aguilera's song "Reflection" at her school's first grade talent show. Later on, at age 7, she starred in her first musical theater production. On August 8, 2008, she released her first full-length album, Amber Lily, which contained 9 original songs, each co-written by Solberg and Simone Sello, who produced the entire album.

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