| The Girls | |
| Cover: | The girls c harris.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Calvin Harris |
| Album: | I Created Disco |
| B-Side: | Rock N Roll Attitude |
| Released: | 4 June 2007 |
| Genre: | Electro house[1] |
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| Producer: | Calvin Harris |
| Prev Title: | Acceptable in the 80s |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Merrymaking at My Place |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
"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.[2] The song has been covered by electropop outfit Dragonette, who changed the main lyric to "The Boys".
The video features a group of women in brightly coloured wigs and underwear performing a dance routine around Harris.
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 June 2007 | ||||
| Australia | 6 August 2007 | CD | [5] |
"The Girls" has often been associated with the fictional characters Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. 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 with the tagline "The Square – Under New Management".[6] 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.[7] [8]