Girls

## Music video

 **"Girls"** is a song by English rock band The 1975, released as a single from their self-titled debut. The song impacted contemporary hit radio. A music video for "Girls" was released on 23 October 2013 and the song was released on 11 November.

## Background

In the song, Matty tells the audience about squiring and being squired by younger girls to the bounce of MJ’s *Off the Wall* era.

The official music video for "Girls" was released on 23 October 2013. It follows the video for "Sex", which changed the art style of the band's music videos that were originally monochrome. Rather than reverting to the black-and-white style, the band decided to continue making music videos in color. Speaking about the music video, lead singer and guitarist Matty Healy said:

*"When we released our last video ['Sex'], people really reacted to the fact that it was in colour. There was a lot of conjecture and talk surrounding it - due to the fact that it was an unexpected stylistic change. It was brought to our attention that certain people thought we were 'conforming to a record company's wishes' along with other expected and unexpected clichés. Obviously this couldn't be further from the truth, we are lucky enough to be surrounded by a group of individuals whose mantra centres on facilitating our creative wishes, we found the whole idea of us being told what to do fascinating. The story of the band who suffer at the hands of a record label shortly after a delirious rise is a tale as old as time. So we kinda wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek video about it. Twinned with our love of '80s pop, its innocence, grandiosity and conceptual ideas in music videos – we wanted to make a video about a record label's attempt at enforced conformity. We got our mate Adam down to a studio in Los Angeles at the start of our USA tour, got four models and made a video about us not wanting to make a video."*
## Lyrics

Bite your face to spite your nose

17 and a half years old

Worrying about my brother finding out

Where’s the fun in doing what you're told?

I said "No!"

'Oh give it a rest, I could persuade you

I'm not your typical, stoned 18 year old

Give me a night I'll make you'

"I know you're looking for salvation in the secular age, but girl I'm not your savior"

Wrestle to the ground

God help me now because

They're just girls breaking hearts

Eyes bright, uptight, just girls

But she can't be what you need if she's 17

They're just girls

They're just girls

A pair of frozen hands to hold

Oh she's so southern so she feels the cold

One moment I was tearing off your blouse

Now you're living in my house

What happened to just messing around?

I said "Yo, I think you better go, I can't take you

You just sit and get stoned with 30-year-olds and you think you've made it"

'Well, shouldn't you be fucking with somebody your age instead of making changes?'

Wrestle to the ground

God help me now because

They're just girls breaking hearts

Eyes bright, uptight, just girls

But she can't be what you need if she's 17

They're just girls

They're just girls

I told her from the start

Destined to be hard

I told her from the start

I’ll break your heart

Destined to be hard

Break your heart

I said "Yo, I think you better go, I can't take you"

I know you're looking for salvation in the secular age, but girl I'm not your savior"

'Well, shouldn't you be fucking with somebody your age instead of making changes?'

Wrestle to the ground

God help me now because

## Personnel

* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Background Vocals:** George Daniel
* **Pro Tools Engineer:** Jonathan Gilmore
* **Synthesizer:** George Daniel
* **Piano:** Matthew Healy
* **Guitar:** Matthew Healy, Adam Hann
* **Drums:** George Daniel
* **Programmer:** George Daniel, Mike Crossey, Jonathan Gilmore
* **Photography:** George Daniel, David Drake
* **Design:** Samuel Burgess-Johnson
* **Mastering Engineer:** Robin Schmidt
* **Mixing Engineer:** The 1975, Mike Crossey
* **Engineer:** Mike Spink
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy

## References

1. ↑ http://www.digitalspy.com.au/music/news/a525893/the-1975-unveil-girls-music-video-watch.html