Star Girl (song)

"Star Girl"
Single by McFly
from the album Motion in the Ocean
Released October 23, 2006
Format CD Single, DVD Single
Recorded 2006
Genre Pop punk, pop rock
Length 3:29
Label Island Records
Writer(s) Fletcher, Jones, Poynter, Judd, Perry, Emery, Carter
Producer Julian Emery, Jason Perry
McFly singles chronology
"Please, Please/Don't Stop Me Now"
(2006)		 "Star Girl"
(2006)		 "Sorry's Not Good Enough/Friday Night"
(2006)
Alternative Cover
CD2 Cover

"Star Girl" is the second single from McFly's third studio album, Motion in the Ocean, which was released in the UK on October 23, 2006. The song was the band's sixth #1 single in the UK, staying in the Top Ten for two weeks. In 2009, the song was played in space to wake up the astronauts on the space station, with thanks to a successful Twitter campaign asking NASA to play the song in space started by band member Tom Fletcher.[1]

Contents

Song Information

"Star Girl" was written by McFly and Jason Perry, Julian Emery and Daniel P. Carter. The single features a live recording of "Silence is a Scary Sound" from the Wonderland Tour 2005 DVD. "Silence is a Scary Sound" was written by McFly bassist, Dougie, when he was just 14 years old. The single also includes the first track from the Motion in the Ocean album, "We are the Young". The song was inspired by a dream Tom Fletcher had, about falling in love with an alien woman. The song was originally called 'Good Night', but the band felt the lyrics didn't fit. Tom had a dream about writing a massive, Westlife style song written about falling in love with an alien women so he decided to replace the 'Good Night' lyrics with the new lyrics hoping it would be a bigger success than the song he wrote in his dream. On 15 June 2009 McFly made a surprise guest appearance at the Jonas Brothers concert in Wembley Arena where they performed 'Star Girl' along with the Jonas Brothers. Since the start of 2010, Star Girl has been played every Friday morning on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 in a feature called "McFlyday".

Track listing

UK CD1
  1. "Star Girl" - 3:29
  2. "We Are the Young" - 3:02
UK CD2
  1. "Star Girl" - 3:29
  2. "Silence Is a Scary Sound" (Live from the Manchester MEN) - 3:55
  3. "Transylvania" - 3:27
  4. "Star Girl" (U-Myx Version)
  5. "Silence Is a Scary Sound" (Live from the Manchester MEN - Video) - 3:55
  6. "Just My Luck DVD Trailer" - 1:00
UK DVD Single
  1. "Star Girl" - 3:29
  2. "Star Girl" (Video) - 3:35
  3. "Behind the Scenes Footage" (From the 'Just My Luck' Set) - 4:00
  4. "Harry's Scene in Just My Luck" - 2:34

Charts

The song debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart. Although debuting at #1, the single dropped to #9 the following week and spent just 6 weeks in the top 75.[2]

Chart (2006) Position
European Hot 100 Singles
33
Irish Singles Chart
14
UK Singles Chart
1
UK Download Chart
1
Chart (2010) Peak
position
South Korea (GAON)[3] 171

End of year charts

End of year chart (2006) Position
UK Singles Chart 88
Preceded by
"Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance		 UK Singles Chart number one single
October 29, 2006 (1 week)		 Succeeded by
"Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" by Fedde Le Grand

Music video

The video featured home footage of the band at Danny's house in Bolton as well as a performance scene filmed in South London in front of a live, fan-based audience. The home footage featured the boys sending Dougie Poynter into "space" and testing out a variety of Don't-Try-These-At-Home type stunts, Later in that video Dougie is in a spaceship eating a floating on air malteaser.

References

  1. ^ "Tom Fletcher talks to Harry Judd about how Star Girl will be played in space". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmyIMrUo-20. Retrieved 2009-06-15. 
  2. ^ http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=32798
  3. ^ http://gaonchart.co.kr/main/section/search/list.gaon?Search_str=mcfly&x=48&y=15
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