Me & My Girls

This article is about the Fifth Harmony song. For the Selena Gomez song, see Revival (Selena Gomez album).
"Me & My Girls"

"Me & My Girls" cover
Promotional single by Fifth Harmony from the album Better Together
Released 18 July 2013.[1]
Format
A-side "Miss Movin' On"
Recorded 2013
Genre Pop
Length 3:24
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s)

"Me & My Girls" is a song by American pop group Fifth Harmony released as a promotional single on July 18, 2013, through Epic Records, included as an iTunes bonus track on the group's debut extended play, Better Together. The song won an award at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards. The group performed the song on the third season of The X Factor USA.

Background

"Me & My Girls" was released as a promotional single, exclusively to Radio Disney on July 13, 2013. It became available for download on October 18, 2013,[2] when Fifth Harmony's debut EP was released. The song received a Radio Disney Music Award for "Best Song to Rock Out to With your BFFs".[3] The group explains the song as being "... about spending time out on the town with your girlfriends, exuding confidence and dancing like nobody’s watching".[4]

Reception

Critical reception

Laura Plus Books gave the song a mixed review, saying it was "not the best song, not even mind-blowing but it was good. Definitely a song that I will listen to often."[5] Christina Lee of Idolator gave a positive review, saying "the seismic “Me And My Girls” would make for the perfect moment to break out the confetti and fireworks".[6] TheGrapeJuice.net also gave a positive review, saying "the song is enough to turn ‘Harmony’ critics into hardcore fans… Pop perfection to say the least.[7] Jessica Rawden of PopBlend gave a positive review, stating that "The girls still need to work on putting together a more complicated dance routine, but overall, the group's second single projects exactly the image the girls have been hoping to stand for all along, at least sans the stupid bow Camila Cabello used to wear".[4]

Chart performance

The song failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number four, and on the Hot Digital Songs component chart at 53.[8] The song also charted on the Billboard Heatseekers Songs chart at place 17.[9]

Awards and nominations

"Me & My Girls" won the award for Best Song to Rock Out to With Your BFF at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards. [10]

Music video

The video for "Me & My Girls" premiered on August 24 on the Disney Channel;[11] and a different version of the video premiered on Fifth Harmony's YouTube Vevo account on August 25.

Live performances

Fifth Harmony performed "Me & My Girls" on The Today Show on July 18, 2013.[4] On November 14, Fifth Harmony performed "Me & My Girls" in week three of season three of the The X Factor.[12][13] Fifth Harmony also performed the song on Demi Lovato's Neon Lights Tour, where they were supporting acts.

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[14] 4
US Heatseekers Songs (Billboard)[9] 17

References

  1. ↑ "Fifth Harmony - Me & My Girls (audio)". FifthHarmonyVEVO. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "iTunes - Music - Better Together by Fifth Harmony". iTunes.apple.com. 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  3. ↑ Johnson, Zach. "Radio Disney Music Awards: Selena Gomez, One Direction, Fifth Harmony and Taylor Swift Win Big!". E! Online. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Rawden, Jessica. "Fifth Harmony Debuts New Single Me & My Girls". PopBlend. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Review: Me & My Girls by Fifth Harmony". Laura Plus Books. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  6. ↑ Lee, Christina. "Fifth Harmony's "Me And My Girls": Hear The Group's Seismic New Single". Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "New Song: Fifth Harmony – 'Me And My Girls'". TheGrapeJuice. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Fifth Harmony Chart History - Hot Digital Songs". Billboard. 2013-09-08. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  9. 1 2 "Fifth Harmony Chart History - Heatseekers Songs". Billboard. 2013-09-08. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  10. ↑ "2014 Radio Disney Music Award Winners". Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Disney Channel - Fifth Harmony's "Me & My Girls" Official Music Video". DisneyChannel. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  12. ↑ "Fifth Harmony Returns To The X FACTOR Stage Thursday!". X Factor USA. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  13. ↑ Jacobson, Ivy. "'X Factor' Recap — Fifth Harmony Stuns With 'Me & My Girls'". Hollywood life. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  14. ↑ "Fifth Harmony Chart History - Bubbling Under Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
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