My Girls (Animal Collective song)

"My Girls" is a song by Animal Collective, released as the first single from their critically acclaimed 2009 albumMerriweather Post Pavilion. It was released on March 23, 2009 by Domino Records as a promo CD only. During the tours of 2007 and 2008 the song was known as "House."

Panda Bear explained to Clash that lyrically the song is about his "desire on a basic level to own my own place and kind of provide a safe house for my family and the people I care about." [1]

Later that year, Taken by Trees covered the song on the album "East of Eden" with minor lyric changes and renamed as "My Boys."

The song resembles a seminal piece of early house music, "Your Love," by Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principle.

An edited version of this song appears during Jake Johnson's part in Alien Workshop's skate film, Mindfield. The song can also be heard briefly during a party sequence in the 2012 film Project X.

In 2013 the song was covered by Tears For Fears.[2]



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[hide]  *1 Reception  ==Reception[ edit] == ==Video[ edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:17.9200000762939px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.3999996185303px;">A promotional music video was created, showing the three members who worked on the album performing the song with samplers, synthesizers and percussion instruments. The video was animated by Jon Vermilyea, whose illustrations were used in the artwork for the band's live compilation Animal Crack Box. Only Avey Tareand Panda Bear's lips and Geologist's caving headlamp can be seen, with complete black bodies in colored scenarios, eventually becoming green and melting at the end of the video.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[4]
 * 2 Video
 * 3 Track listing
 * 4 References
 * "My Girls" was named the #1 Song of 2009 by Pitchfork Media.
 * In 2009, Pitchfork listed the song at #9 of their Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s.
 * NME named "My Girls" the 5th best song of 2009.
 * Slant Magazine named "My Girls" the best song of 2009.
 * In October 2011, NME placed it at number 91 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;">[3]
 * The song was covered by The Becca Stevens Band on their 2011 album, Weightless.
 * In 2014, NME named "My Girls" the 248th best song of all time.

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 * 1) "My Girls" – 5:44