"Show Girl" is a song by Slimmy

Slimmy

Slimmy, born Paulo Fernandes, is a Portuguese singer/songwriter who combines various genres of rock, especially electro rock. He has an irreverent visual look and an addictive musical style and has achieved mainstream success after an appearance on the Portuguese soap opera Morangos com Açúcar. He...

, released in 2008

2008 in music

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 as the second single

Single (music)

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 from his debut album Beatsound Loverboy

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 Turner. Other two producers joined Slimmy for the recording of the album: Saul Davies and Rodolfo Cardoso...

. The song peaked at number 44 in the Portugal Singles Chart.
"Showgirl" is part of the soundtrack of the Portuguese

Portugal

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 TV series "Rebelde Way".

Background

"Show Girl", also written by Slimmy and produced by Quico Serrano and Mark Turner, was released to MySpace

MySpace

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 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 travesties

Travesties

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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.

Track listing

MySpace

MySpace

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 promotional single

1. "Show Girl" (album version) - 3:14

Digital single

1. "Show Girl" (album version) - 3:14

Personnel

Taken from the album's booklet.

• Paulo Fernandes – main vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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• Paulo Garim – bass
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• Tó-Zé – drums

Release history

Region	Date	Format
Worldwide World World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....	January 1, 2007 (promo) May 26, 2008	Digital Download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...

Charts

Year	Title	Chart Positions
		POR Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
2008	"Show Girl"	44

External links

• Official music video at YouTube
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