"Party Girl" is a song by British

pop rock Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...

band

McFly McFly are an English pop rock band formed in London in 2003. The band took their name from the '' Back to the Future'' character Marty McFly. The band consists of Tom Fletcher (lead vocals, guitar, and piano), Danny Jones (lead vocals, har ...

. It was released as the lead single from their fifth studio album, ''

Above the Noise ''Above the Noise'' is the fifth studio album from English pop rock band McFly. The album was released on 15 November 2010. The album spawned three singles: "Party Girl", which was released on 6 September; " Shine a Light", which was released ...

'' (2010). The song premiered on UK radio on 14 July 2010 on In:Demand, and was released on 5 September 2010, where it debuted at number 6 on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

; marking the band's sixteenth Top 10 single to date. On 25 August 2010 the song was added to

BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, ...

A-List An A-list actor is a major movie star, or one of the most bankable actors in a film industry. The A-list is part of a larger guide called ''The Hot List'', which ranks the bankability of 1,400 movie actors worldwide, and has become an industry ...

. "Party Girl" was played on the TV Series ''

Pretty Little Liars ''Pretty Little Liars'' is an American mystery teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard. Developed by I. Marlene King, the series was broadcast on Freeform between June 8, 2010, and June ...

''.

Background

After the release of "

Falling in Love Falling in love is the development of strong feelings of attachment and love, usually towards another person. The term is metaphorical, emphasizing that the process, like the physical act of falling, is sudden, uncontrollable and leaves the ...

", McFly headed back into the studio. On 22 January 2010, it was announced that the band were going to re-sign with former label Island Records. This was later revealed to be a 50/50 deal that sees all profits, except publishing, split between Universal and McFly, including money from touring, record sales, merchandise and sponsorship. The band worked with producer

Dallas Austin Dallas L. Austin (born December 29, 1970) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer. Biography Early life During a 2019 interview with DJ Vlad, Dallas Austin detailed previously unknown or unconfirmed events in ...

on this, their fifth studio album. On 9 July 2010, Fletcher and Poynter confirmed on

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

that the first single from the album would be called "Party Girl", which was written in

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

with Austin. According to Austin, "Party Girl" is the only track on the album with a heavily dance-oriented sound. The song premièred on 14 July on Radio 1 and a one-minute-long clip was posted on McFly's Myspace page. On the same day, In:Demand played the full song. McFly have been on the top 20 in popstars' opinions of the best UK artist. "Party Girl" was played by

The Wanted The Wanted are a British-Irish boy band consisting of group members Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes and, until his death in 2022, Tom Parker. The group was formed in 2009 and signed a worldwide contract to ...

and

Olly Murs Oliver Stanley Murs (born 14 May 1984) is an English singer, songwriter, and television presenter. He was runner-up on the sixth series of '' The X Factor'' in 2009 and was subsequently signed to RCA Records and Sony Music in the United Kingdom ...

. McFly have promoted "Party Girl" by playing it live on '' GMTV'', KFC Crushems, '' This Morning'', ''Suck My Pop'', ''

Big Brother's Little Brother This is a complete list of shows about and relating to '' Big Brother UK'' and '' Celebrity Big Brother''. The civilian edition ran from 2000 to 2018 and the celebrity edition ran from 2001 to 2018. ''Big Brother'' ''Big Brother'' was a daily s ...

'' and '' Magic Numbers''.

Track listing

; UK CD1 # "Party Girl" - 3:14 # "Sunny Side of the Street" (Home Demo) - 3:14 ; UK CD2 # "Party Girl" - 3:14 # "Hotel on a Hill" - 1:30 # "Party Girl" (Danny Jones Remix) - 3:54 # "Party Girl" (Doman & Gooding Remix) - 5:28 ; UK 7" Picture Disc # "Party Girl" - 3:14

Music video

The music video for Party Girl premiered on MSN on 19 August. The video contains clips from McFly's upcoming 40-minute-long vampire-minifilm "Nowhere Left To Run". The sixteenth century manor house featured in a number of scenes is

Bruce Castle Museum Bruce Castle (formerly the Lordship House) is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Believed to stand on the site o ...

in Tottenham, London; the church is the 14th century

All Hallows Parish Church All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * ''All'' (All al ...

, just to the north of Bruce Castle. The video also contained several scenes where McFly performs the song, separately from the rest of the video. They won an award for this video : 4Music Video Honours - Best Video of 2010.

Critical reception

Teen website 'Teen Today' said the song was "amazing". Alex and Lucy of radio station In:Demand said the song had an electro feel to it but still a good rocking McFly tune, also the song sounded a cross between

3OH!3 3OH!3 (pronounced "three oh three") is an American electronic music duo from Boulder, Colorado, made up of Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte. They are best known for their single "DONTTRUSTME" from their album ''Want'', which reached number seve ...

and Enrique Iglesias. Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the single a rating of five out of five stars, calling it "an unstoppable post-GaGa dance-pop stomper built on a deliciously fizzy mix of synths and guitar riffs", and felt that "the whopping great 'woah woah' chorus is as hard to resist as an apple pie left to cool by an open window".

Chart performance

"Party Girl" debuted on the Irish Singles Chart on 10 September 2010 at number 31. On 12 September, the single debuted on the

UK Single Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

at number 6, with sales of more than 40,000 copies. On its second week, the single fell 7 places to number 13, meaning it only spent a single week within the Top 10. The single then continued to plummet, falling a huge 19 places to number 32 on 30 September 2010. "Party Girl" fell out of the Top 40 the following week, meaning it spent only 3 weeks within. The single also debuted at number 6 on the

Scottish Singles and Albums Chart The Scottish Albums Chart is a chart compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) which is based on how physical and digital sales towards the UK Albums Chart fare in Scotland. The official singles chart for Scotland, the Scottish Singles Chart, ...

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

In popular culture

The song appears in Episode 18, Series 1 of US teen drama ''

'' when the girls are attending a college frat party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Party Girl (Mcfly Song) 2010 singles McFly songs Songs written by Dallas Austin Songs written by Danny Jones Songs written by Dougie Poynter Songs written by Tom Fletcher 2010 songs Song recordings produced by Dallas Austin Island Records singles