My Best Friend's Girl (song)
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| Single by The Cars | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Cars | ||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Don't Cha Stop" (US, Japan) "Moving in Stereo" (Europe) |
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| Released | October 10, 1978 | |||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | AIR Studios, London, February 1978 | |||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Rock, new wave, power pop | |||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:40 | |||||||||||||||||
| Label | Elektra 45537 | |||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Ric Ocasek | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Roy Thomas Baker | |||||||||||||||||
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"My Best Friend's Girl" is a song by American rock band The Cars from their 1978 self-titled debut album on Elektra Records, released on June 6 of that year. Written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Roy Thomas Baker, the song was released as the album's second single. It peaked at number 35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and reached number three in the UK. "My Best Friend's Girl" was included on the soundtrack to the 1979 film Over the Edge, and the song appears on numerous compilation albums, such as the band's 1985 Greatest Hits, 1995's Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, and 2002's Complete Greatest Hits. A live version of the song by The New Cars appears on their 2006 debut album, It's Alive!. The song originates from late 1976-early 1977 as another successful demo, like "Just What I Needed", of the song was done.
"My Best Friend's Girl" begins with chords in the lower register of the guitar, a two-bar progression moving from I to IV to V in F. Hand claps enter in bar five, and after the eight-bar intro, the first verse begins featuring Ric Ocasek's vocals over a lead guitar lick in the key of F. An organ is introduced in the first chorus, followed by a rockabilly guitar lick which leads to the second verse. The song is composed in contrasting verse-chorus form. Interestingly, the song was originally written and recorded in E major, one semitone lower, then the entire master tape was sped up to place it in F major. Many live performances show the band performing the song in E. The lyrics depict a man's frustration with a woman who is dating his best friend after the man dated her. The narrator coolly notes, "She's my best friend's girl, but she used to be mine."
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