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| Length = | Label = Food | Producer = Stephen Street | Last single = "Sunday Sunday" (1993) | This single = "Girls & Boys" (1994) | Next single = "To the End" (1994) | Misc = }} "Girls & Boys" is a 1994 song by British rock band Blur. It was released as the lead single from the group's third album ''Parklife''. Charting at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, "Girls & Boys" was Blur's first top 5 hit and their most successful single until "Country House" reached number 1 the following year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Official Charts Company )〕 The single was seen as a comeback for the band, who had had a lean commercial period for a couple of years. It surpassed their previous commercial peak "There's No Other Way" by three spots on the UK Singles Chart, and saw the group achieve greater worldwide success. In the US, the track reached number 59 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart, becoming the band's second single to hit the chart after "There's No Other Way".〔 It also reached number 4 on the Modern Rock songs chart.〔 ==Composition== Damon Albarn was inspired to write the song once he vacationed in Magaluf, Spain with then-girlfriend Justine Frischmann. According to Albarn, the city had "really tacky Essex nightclubs" and a rampant sexual scene among visitors, with "All these blokes and all these girls meeting at the watering hole and then just copulating. There's no morality involved, I'm not saying it should or shouldn't happen." The music has a convergence of various pop and dance styles, summed up by bassist Alex James as “Disco drums, nasty guitars and Duran Duran bass." Drummer Dave Rowntree admitted he is not on the track, being replaced by a drum machine he programmed. Thus he said it was his favourite song on ''Blur: The Best Of'' because he "isn't really in it. It's cool not being in your own song." The vocals were recorded with a demo featuring only the keyboards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Girls & Boys (Blur song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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