Hey Boy Hey Girl

Daily Record commented, "Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands are back with another fantastic dance single. It's another block rockin' hit."^[2] In October 2011, NME placed it at number 50 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years", writing that the song "[starts] with a menacing, trance laden groove" and "[builds] to an absolute dance stomper".^[3]

The music video (directed by Dom and Nic) opens with a group of schoolchildren on board a coach. The camera focuses on a young girl who opens a medical book of pictures of the human skeleton. A blond boy spits on the page, then smiles at her as he walks away. The children go to the Natural History Museum, where the same boy tries to scare the girl with a skull in his hood. She chases him, but falls near the bottom of a flight of stairs and fractures her wrist. At the hospital, she gets an X-ray of her hand.

The video then shows her brushing her teeth whilst picturing herself as only bones. The background behind her morphs into a toilet area at the Ministry of Sound nightclub, South London. When she reverts into a person, she is older (played by Hanne Klintøe^[4]). She passes a couple having sex in a stall, but she only sees them as skeletons. She exits the toilets and heads to the nightclub's bar, where a man (uncredited appearance of Rick Warden) tries to talk with her. She then pictures him as a skeleton and feels his jawbone before leaving. She then goes to the dance floor, and sees all the clubbers dancing as skeletons.

She exits the nightclub, and the Chemical Brothers themselves make a brief cameo appearance, stepping out of a taxi with DJ equipment. She then steps into that same taxi, where she sees the driver as a skeleton. He then asks her 'Where you going, baby?' in a camp, droll voice.

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

1. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" – 4:48
2. "Flashback" – 5:18
3. "Scale" – 3:43

Standard 12-inch single^[8][9]

1. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" (extended version) – 6:01
2. "Flashback" – 5:18
3. "Scale" – 3:43

European CD single^[10]

1. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" (radio edit) – 3:32
2. "Flashback" – 5:18

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

Studios

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

Personnel