Boys and Girls (Pixie Lott song)
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| Single by Pixie Lott | ||||
| from the album Turn It Up | ||||
| B-side | "If I Changed" | |||
| Released | 5 September 2009 | |||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||
| Recorded | Nov. 2008 - Apr. 2009; Swamp Studio (West Hampstead, London, England) |
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| Genre | Electropop, acid jazz | |||
| Length | 3:02 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Writer(s) | Mads Hauge, Phil Thornalley, Pixie Lott | |||
| Producer(s) | Mads Hauge, Phil Thornalley, Fraser T Smith | |||
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"Boys and Girls" is a song by English recording artist Pixie Lott, released as the second single from her debut album, Turn It Up. It was released digitally in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2009 by Mercury Records as an iTunes EP, followed by an iTunes single on 6 September and a physical release on 7 September. Similarly to "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)", the track was also strongly supported by BBC Radio 1, becoming Lott's second consecutive single to feature on the station's A-list. "Boys and Girls" became Lott's second consecutive number-one single, topping the UK Singles Chart in September 2009. The song also served as Lott's debut single in the United States, where it was released on 24 August 2010 through the iTunes Store.
"Boys and Girls" is an uptempo electropop song that follows a combination of a retro-styled beat produced by various brass instruments which are most prominent in the song's intro, as well as synthetic rhythms put together as a dance-sounding finished product through many synthesizers, drum machine, and keyboards. Lott employs a low note throughout the chorus, whilst experimenting with other notes in the song's verses and as a backing toward the end of the song. Lott's voice is heavily vocoded in the song's bridge to build the song up from upbeat pop to upbeat electropop, The song samples Rihanna's Shut Up & Drive with less of its usual pop punk sound & more to an electropop sound.
The song's lyrics follow a simple concept of having fun with people and friends in a party-like atmosphere. The song is one of nine tracks co-written by Lott on her debut album, Turn It Up. Lott co-wrote the song with producers Mads Hauge and Phil Thornalley. The original track demo was leaked in 2008 but the song received a re-working for its single release in 2009. A&R at Mercury, Joe Kentish, felt the production needed "more drive and urgency and needed to work on the dance floor as well as the radio." Producer and songwriter Fraser T Smith was brought in to work on the track. According to Smith in an interview with HitQuarters,
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