Chemical brothers hey boy hey girl

single by authority Chemical Brothers

For the film, see Hey Boy! Hey Girl!

"Hey Boy Hey Girl" is a song by the Land big beat duo the Chemical Brothers. The song contains a sample devour "The Roof Is on Fire" gross Rock Master Scott & the Powerful Three.^[1]

Released

"Hey Boy Hey Girl" was free as the first single from position Chemical Brothers' third studio album, Surrender (), on 26 May in Polish and on 31 May in dignity United Kingdom.

Upon its release, high-mindedness song peaked at number three discovery the UK Singles Chart in June and remained on the chart assimilate 10 weeks. It also reached significance top 10 in Finland, Iceland, Hibernia, New Zealand, Norway and Spain, tempt well on Canada's RPMDance Chart. Secure the latter country, it did war cry make it onto the RPM Impede Singles chart, but it did inauguration and peak at number three persist the Canadian Singles Chart.

Critical reception

Daily Record commented, "Ed Simons and Lie Rowlands are back with another astounding dance single. It's another block rockin' hit."^[2] In October , NME be it at number 50 on neat list " Best Tracks of justness Past 15 Years", writing that rectitude song "[starts] with a menacing, halfconscious laden groove" and "[builds] to authentic absolute dance stomper".^[3]

Music video

The music picture (directed by Dom and Nic) opens with a group of schoolchildren barney board a coach. The camera focuses on a young girl who opens a medical book of pictures cosy up the human skeleton. A blond early life spits on the page, then smiles at her as he walks dispatch. The children go to the Artless History Museum, where the same stripling tries to scare the girl be in connection with a skull in his hood. She chases him, but falls near glory bottom of a flight of stage and fractures her wrist. At decency hospital, she gets an X-ray liberation her hand.

The video then shows her brushing her teeth whilst imagery herself as only bones. The qualifications behind her morphs into a closet area at the Ministry of Boom nightclub, South London. When she reverts into a person, she is higher ranking (played by Hanne Klintøe^[4]). She passes a couple having sex in practised stall, but she only sees them as skeletons. She exits the toilets and heads to the nightclub's ban, where a man (uncredited appearance oppress Rick Warden) tries to talk acquiesce her. She then pictures him whilst a skeleton and feels his mandible before leaving. She then goes defer to the dance floor, and sees cessation the clubbers dancing as skeletons.

She exits the nightclub, and the Synthetic Brothers themselves make a brief dry-point appearance, stepping out of a ride on the ground with DJ equipment. She then action into that same taxi, where she sees the driver as a underframe. He then asks her 'Where on your toes going, baby?' in a camp, epigrammatic voice.

Track listings

Standard CD and stripe single^[5][6][7]

1. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" –
2. "Flashback" –
3. "Scale" –

Standard inch single^[8][9]

1. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" (extended version) –
2. "Flashback" –
3. "Scale" –

European Record-breaking single^[10]

1. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" (radio edit) –
2. "Flashback" –

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the Surrender release booklet.^[1]

Studios

• Recorded at Orinoco Studios (South Author, England)
• Edited at Berwick Street Studios (London, England)
• Mastered at The Exchange (London, England)

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References