"Show Girl" is a song by

Slimmy Slimmy, born Paulo Fernandes, is a Portuguese singer/songwriter who combines various genres of rock, especially electro rock. He has an irrelevant visual look and an addictive musical style and has achieved mainstream success after an appearance ...

, released in 2008 as the second single from his debut album ''

Beatsound Loverboy ''Beatsound Loverboy'' is the debut studio album by Portuguese singer-songwriter Slimmy. Slimmy started working on the album with his longtime producers Quico Serrano and Mark J Turner. Other two producers joined Slimmy for the recording of the a ...

''. The song peaked at number 44 in the Portugal Singles Chart. "Showgirl" is part of the soundtrack of the Portuguese TV series "Rebelde Way".

Background

"Show Girl", also written by Slimmy and produced by Quico Serrano and Mark Turner, was released to MySpace as the second single of the album on the same day "Beatsound Loverboy" was released and was released as a digital single on May 26, 2008. It premiered on the Antena 3 radio station on the same day. "Showgirl" together with the song "Bloodshot Star" is part of the soundtrack of the Portuguese TV series "Rebelde Way".

Music video

The video starts with six girls "coming out" from a curtain like they were entering on stage. Than, we can see Slimmy in a black background walking towards us while singing to the song. Next to him there are two girls kissing each other. The video is followed by a scene where we can see Slimmy performing in a nightclub while the girls, in featured in the opening scene of the video, are dancing to the song. This scene is alternated with a scene where Slimmy is singing the song in a white background with CDs stuck in the wall. Apart from girls, we can also see

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in the video. The rest of the video features scenes from the performance in the nightclub.

Chart performance

The song entered at number 44 on the Portugal Singles Top 50 where it stayed for one week and peaked at number 44 where it stayed for more one week.''Show Girl'' on chart
at ''acharts.com''. Retrieved June 30, 2011

Live performances

* Sex and Love Tour * A Very Slimmy Tour * Be Someone Else Tour

Track listing

; MySpace promotional single #"Show Girl" (album version) – 3:14 ;Digital single #"Show Girl" (album version) – 3:14

Personnel

Taken from the album's booklet.Credits taken from the album's liner notes. Retrieved June 30, 2011. *Paulo Fernandes – main vocals, guitar *Paulo Garim – bass *Tó-Zé – drums

Release history

Charts

References

External links

Official music video
at YouTube.

{{Slimmy 2008 singles English-language Portuguese songs 2007 songs