"He's So Shy" is a song by American vocal group The Pointer Sisters from their seventh studio album Special Things (1980). Written by Tom Snow and Cynthia Weil, it was released by the Planet label in July 23, 1980 as the album's lead single.

"He's So Shy"'s fusion of classic girl group pop, new wave-styled dance music and R&B proved the right combination to effect a top-ten comeback for the Pointer Sisters, the single reaching a Billboard Hot 100 peak of number three that October. "He's So Shy" set the prototype of the trademark Pointer Sisters sound which would afford the group its career peak in 1983-84 with their Break Out album.

Tom Snow would recall of "He's So Shy": "It was the first time I'd actually written a melody that I knew in my heart was a smash", and that it had been at the BMI Awards banquet where he was honored for the success of his composition "You" that Snow had met lyricist Cynthia Weil who with her husband Barry Mann formed the iconic Mann/ Weil songwriting team, Weil and Mann being in attendance at the banquet: Snow - "I did something I'm not prone to doing because I'm not a real self-promoter. I 'ginned-up' the courage, went over and introduced myself." After checking out Snow's output and being favorably impressed, Weil had agreed to collaborate with him, the inaugural Snow/ Weil composition "Holdin' Out For Love" being recorded by Cher for her 1979 album Prisoner (an eventual R&B hit for Angela Bofill in 1982, "Holdin' Out..." was also recorded by the Pointer Sisters as a non-album cut utilized as the B-side of their 1981 hit "Slow Hand").

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