"The Girls" is the second single of Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 electropop artist Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris is a Scottish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls"...

. It was released on 4 June 2007, prior to the release of his debut album, I Created Disco

I Created Disco

I Created Disco is the debut album by Scottish recording artist Calvin Harris. It was released in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2007 by Fly Eye Records and Columbia Records, preceded by the singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls", which reached numbers ten and three on the UK Singles Chart,...

. "The Girls" was Harris' highest charting single on the Official UK Top 40, as of 10 June 2007, "The Girls" has reached a peak of #3. A "bootleg" version of this song leaked on file sharing a several months before I Created Disco was released. The song has been covered by electropop outfit Dragonette

Dragonette

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, who changed the main lyric to "The Boys".

Music video

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

Track listing

Chart performance

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	33
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	23
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	3

Official versions and remixes

• Acapella Version (3:15)
• Album Version / Original Mix (5:15)
• Acoustic Version (3:27)
• D La Rock & Niels Von Geyer Remix (5:41)
• Groove Armada Dub (7:47)
• Groove Armada Remix (8:04)
• Molella Remix (6:16)
• Micky Slim's Bomb Squad Mix (7:09)
• Napster Live Session (4:05)
• Pete Tong Radio 1 Session (5:11)
• Pornocult Remix (7:42)
• Pornocult Remix Edit (3:33)
• Q Live Session (3:17)
• Radio Edit (3:52)
• Samuele Sartini Radio Edit (3:51)
• Samuele Sartini Remix (6:04)
• Stonebridge Remix (6:39)

Uses in media

The song is used to advertise for America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model

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 on Channel 10

Network Ten

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, Australia; to advertise the addition of the two Mitchell sisters, Ronnie

Ronnie Mitchell

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 and Roxy

Roxy Mitchell

Roxanne Lizette "Roxy" Mitchell is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, portrayed by Rita Simons. Roxy arrived in Walford with her sister Ronnie on 24 July 2007 and decided to move permanently to Walford from Ibiza where they ran a bar together. Roxy is the younger of the two...

 on EastEnders

EastEnders

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, BBC 1, United Kingdom; and in Episode 13 of ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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s Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty

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. The song was also used in the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

's 2008 production of The Taming Of The Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...

 to introduce the play. It has also been used in Jean Paul Gaultier's fashion show for his Fall/ Winter Collection of 2009. The song was used in a 2009 series of adverts for Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

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 on Comedy Central

Comedy Central

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in the UK. It was also used in the soundtrack for Top Spin 3.