The Boy Does Nothing

Album: The Alesha Show (2008)
Charted: 5
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, which was written by Dixon together with the production team behind many of Girls Aloud's hits, Xenomania, the singer berates a boyfriend for his inability to do the housework.
  • This song resembles Lou Bega's 1999 UK #1 hit "Mambo No 5 (A Little Bit Of)." Dixon explained to the Observer Music Monthly October 2008: "As for the 'Mambo No.5' sound, it just feels right. The song started over as more jazzy, bluesy music, but it ended up going there. We need a good feelgood song now, what with everything going on in the world."
  • This song was Alesha Dixon's first full single release after winning the 2007 BBC Strictly Come Dancing reality show.
  • The music video was directed by Michael Gracey, who was the art director on the film Moulin Rouge.
  • In a February 2009 interview with the BBC Breakfast news programme, Alesha Dixon said she wrote this song for women as a tongue-in-cheek swipe at husbands and boyfriends generally. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

Comments: 1

  • M from IrelandFFS, this has to be the worst example of songwriting ever. What a banal, stupid song. It hurts my ears when I hear it.
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