Hot Girl (Sabrina song)
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| "Hot Girl" | ||||
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| Single by Sabrina | ||||
| from the album Sabrina | ||||
| B-side | "Kiss Me" | |||
| Released | November 1987 | |||
| Genre | Italo disco • Eurobeat | |||
| Length | 3:22 | |||
| Label | Baby Records | |||
| Songwriters | Matteo Bonsanto Claudio Cecchetto Roberto Rossi | |||
| Producers | Claudio Cecchetto, mixed by M. Bonsanto and R. Rossi | |||
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| "Hot Girl" on YouTube | ||||
"Hot Girl" is an Italo disco/pop song by Italian singer Sabrina. It was released by Baby Records in November 1987 as the album's fourth and final single.[1] The B-side "Kiss Me" also appeared on her debut album. The song was a success in France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands where it was a top 20 hit.
After the enormous success with "Boys (Summertime Love)", the team around Sabrina's manager Menzione tried to score another international hit with a new single. They chose "Hot Girl", a song from Sabrina's by-then-released first album, and had it remixed for the single release. Although Sabrina heavily promoted the song (in a Spanish TV show, she danced in such an enthusiastic way that her breasts fell out of her top),[2] the song did not match the success of "Boys (Summertime Love)".
Critical reception
In his 2017 book Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop: 32 International Music Legends Discuss Their Careers, James Arena described "Hot Girl" as being the "retentlessly catchy follow-up single [after "Boys (Summertime Love)"], another electrifying, hook-laden dance jam", and underlined the remixed version by Phil Harding at PWL Studios which added "erotic vocal gasps and whipping sound effects set to a thunderous beat".[3]
Chart performance
"Hot Girl" was not intended to be marketed in the United Kingdom, as "Boys (Summertime Love)" was re-released in June 1988 after a commercial failure four months earlier, followed by "All of Me (Boy Oh Boy)" in October of the same year. In Continental Europe, it was released in two times: first in the last two months of 1987 in the majority of European countries, then in the first half of 1988 in Spain and France; as a consequence, on the Pan-European Hot 100 Singles chart established by the Music & Media magazine, its 23-week chart trajectory is divided into two segments with a two-month hiatus, including a peak at number 36 in its second week.[4] Regarding the national charts, "Hot Girl" peaked within the top ten in Spain where it reached number two, being unable to dislodge Pet Shop Boys' "Always on My Mind" atop,[5] the Flanders part of Belgium and Finland where it attained number six,[6][7] and the Netherlands where it reached number ten twice.[8] It was a top 20 hit in other three nations: France, where it debuted at number 28 and reached number 12 five weeks later, spending a total of 13 weeks in the top 50,[9] Switzerland where it culminated at number 13,[10] and Germany where it was present for 13 weeks on the national chart with a peak at number 19.[11] In Sabrina's home-country, Italy, it missed the top 20 by one place, peaking at number 21 for two weeks.[12]
Track listings
- 7" single
- "Hot Girl" – 3:22
- "Kiss Me" – 4:05
- 12" maxi
- "Hot Girl" (new version) – 6:04
- "Hot Girl" (dub version) – 7:03