Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)

Single by Rina Sawayama

## Music Video

"**Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)**" is the fourth song and second single from Rina Sawayama's debut studio album *Sawayama*. It was released on 17 January 2020 through the record label Dirty Hit. The song blends genres such as disco, dance, funk, house, electro house and synth-pop into a "clubby" record. The song also received a music video.

On 21 February, a remix of the song, featuring Brazilian singer and drag queen Pabllo Vittar was released.

## Background and composition

When discussing the track's lyrical content, Sawayama stated, "When I was writing this song I wanted on one hand to lyrically explore the idea of people having to adopt negative male tropes to appear confident, whilst on the other sonically paying homage to the early 2000s dance tracks that made me feel confident. The idea that the socially acceptable version of confidence is in acting "like the boys," otherwise as a woman you get called a bitch - but in the club, we reclaim the word "bitch" as a sign of ultimate confidence ("yes bitch," "work bitch"). I wanted to sit these two together and make a club fashion banger that makes you feeling like THAT bitch whoever you are". The track was originally inspired by a conversation about "the arrogance of would-be presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke".

"Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)" is a "pulsating" and "couture-wielding" disco, dance, funk, house, electro house and synth-pop track which features lo-fi production, influences of Eurodance, "fat" bass, "bouncy" synths, a "glitzy" beat and a tempo of 119 beats per minute. Lyrically, it is a "chill celebration of true confidence" and criticizes the social expectation "how people, regardless of gender, are often expected to only express confidence in conventionally masculine ways".

The production of the remix, handled by Brazilian DJ Brabo, is "infectious" and features a "club-ready" beat and "experimental" synths, as well as a bridge from Vittar.

## Music video

### Background

On 26 February 2020, the music video for "Comme des Garçons" premiered on YouTube. It was directed by Eddie Whelan.

### Synopsis

The "90s-inspired" video shows the singer "dressed in stereotypically male clothing [...] being scanned and examined in a space-age lab, before transforming into a high fashion look and being literally propped up by throngs of men surrounding her in a multicolored landscape". Sawayama explained the idea behind it, stating, "We wanted to make a music video that’s got humour, movement and is essentially a fashion film that combined the visual worlds of Hype Williams, Hiroyuki Nakano, and Boris Vallejo".

## Live performances

"Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)" was part of the regular set list of the Dynasty Tour, which began on 8 November 2021 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Lyrics

### Official

Can I just record you doing that?

Is it on?

Ooh, I woke up today

Had to wash my fears away again

Ooh, I'm feeling okay

It's just another day to pretend

I'm done waiting, anticipating

Keep going and going (Going and going)

Yeah, I'm just in it, born to win it

Keep going and going

Comme des garçons (Woo!)

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Excuse my ego, can't go incognito

Every time you see me, it's like winning big in Reno

Don't fuck with me, ho, take you down like judo

Make it rain, I'm taking names from London to Meguro

Yeah, yeah

Oh, girl, it's okay

You should never be ashamed to have it all

Yeah, yeah

It's gonna be okay

Yeah, you've come a long way

Comme des garçons (Woo!)

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Hot like a fever, make you a believer

Write my name up in the sky from Paris to Shibuya

Miu Miu, Prada, Mugler, Virgil, Ross, Nicola

Elevate your vision when you put me on the cover

Comme des garçons (Woo!)

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident (Woo!)

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

### Bravo x Pabllo Vittar remix

**Rina Sawayama & *Pabllo Vittar***

Excuse my ego

Can't go incognito

Every time you see me

It's like winning big in Reno

Don't fuck with me, hoe

Take you down like judo

Make it rain

I'm taking names from London to Meguro

It's the remix, baby

Rina Sawayama and *Pabllo Vittar*

**Rina Sawayama**

Ooh, I woke up today

Had to wash my fears away, again

Ooh, I'm feeling okay

It's just another day to pretend

Ooh, I woke up today

Had to wash my fears away, again

Ooh, I'm feeling okay

It's just another day to pretend

I'm done waiting, anticipating

Keep going and going (Going and going)

Yeah, I'm just in it, born to win it

Keep going and going

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Excuse my ego

Can't go incognito

Every time you see me

It's like winning big in Reno

Don't fuck with me, hoe

Take you down like judo

Make it rain

I'm taking names from London to Meguro

**Pabllo Vittar**

Yeah, oh, girl, it's okay

You should never be ashamed to have it all

Yeah, it's gonna be okay

Yeah, you've come a long way

**Rina Sawayama & Pabllo Vittar**

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys, like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

**Rina Sawayama**

Hot like a fever

Make you a believer

Write my name up in the sky

From Paris to Shibuya

Miu Miu, Prada, Mugler

Virgil, Ross, Nicola

Elevate your vision

When you put me on the cover

**Rina Sawayama & *Pabllo Vittar***

Comme des garçons

Like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

Comme des garçons

Like the boys

Comme des garçons

I'm so confident

*Like the boys, like the boys*

*Comme des garçons*

*I'm so confident*

*Comme des garçons*

*Like the boys, like the boys*

*Comme des garçons*

*I'm so confident*

**Rina Sawayama & Pabllo Vittar**

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

I'm so confident, I'm so confident

I'm so confident

## References

1. ↑ Rina Sawayama announces debut album SAWAYAMA, maps out "The Dynasty Tour"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rina Sawayama Recruits Pabllo Vittar For Infectious Brabo Remix of 'Comme Des Garçons': Listen
3. ↑ Rina Sawayama Announces Tour and Debut Album, Shares New Song: Listen
4. ↑ Rina Sawayama Announces Debut Album, Shares Pulsing Club Track 'Comme Des Garçons'
5. ↑ Rina Sawayama on Her Wildly Eclectic and Disarmingly Personal Debut Album
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Rina Sawayama Follows Up Album Announcement with Space-Age Video for 'Comme Des Garçons': Watch
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Rina Sawayama Finds Confidence in Disco on "Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)," Announces Debut Album
8. ↑ Tracks of the week reviewed: Soccer Mommy, BTS, Moby
9. ↑ Hear Rina Sawayama skewer late capitalism on her new single "XS"
10. ↑ Rina Sawayama Announces Long-Awaited Debut Album 'SAWAYAMA'
11. ↑ Rina Sawayama drops "Comme des Garçons," announces debut album and tour
12. ↑ Rina Sawayama – SAWAYAMA – Review
13. ↑ The 50 Best Albums of 2020 (So Far): Staff Picks
14. ↑ Rina Sawayama Channels Early 2000s Swagger in Her Drippingly Confident "Comme Des Garçons"
15. ↑ Family Portrait: Rina Sawayama
16. ↑ BPM for "Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys) by Rina Sawayama
17. ↑ Rina Sawayama Continues to Defy Pop Conventions
18. ↑ Rina Sawayama - Comme Des Garçons (Like the Boys)
19. ↑ Rina Sawayama Exudes Masculine Confidence in New "Comme Des Garçons (Like the Boys)" Visuals
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Rina Sawayama unveils Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys) music video