Hey Boy Hey Girl | Through the Shattered Lens

Hi, everyone! Lisa here.

So, as you know if you’ve been following the site, Val is currently having a hospital procedure done so she’s going to be gone for a few days. Since I love Val’s music video of the day posts, I’m going to share a few picks of my own until she returns!

Hey Boy Hey Girl is not only one of my favorite songs from The Chemical Brothers, it’s also one of my favorite videos. Admittedly, I could do without the saliva at the start of the film but that’s just because I have a thing about visible saliva. It doesn’t appeal to me. But otherwise, I absolutely love this video!

(Whenever I watch this video, I end up staring at my reflection and visualizing what my skeleton looks like. Usually, I’m impressed.)

This video was one of the many directed by Dom & Nic. Other videos that they’ve done for The Chemical Brothers: Wide Open, Midnight Madness, Salmon Dance, Believe, The Test, and Setting Sun.

Not a day goes by that I don’t see those dancing skeleton recreated in GIF form. I guess that’s because I hang out on a lot of horror-themed web sites.

Enjoy!

Some day, I’m going to make and publish a list that will entitled “Top Ten Songs To Dance To While Wasted.” Until I get around to that, I’ll just take a few minutes to highlight the song that would probably come in at number 3 — Hey Boy Hey Girl by the Chemical Brothers.

I really wanted to put up the music video that features the kids in the museum and the skeletons having sex in the public restroom. However, every version of that to be found on YouTube comes with one of those really annoying “embedding disabled by request” tags. Bleh on that.

So, I’m including two videos. The first one is simply the song as it appears on 1999’s Surrender. The second is a clip of the Chemical Brothers doing the song live at Glastonbury in 2007. Personally, I love the 2nd clip. If you ever get a chance to see the Chemical Brothers live, you must take it as surely as you must breathe oxygen to live.