It seems appropriate, as we enter summertime, to recall the 1987 hit single "Boys (Summertime Love)" by one-hit wonder Sabrina. Not in the US, where nobody seems to have heard of this song, or even the entire italo-disco genre at all (a small handful of italo-disco songs did chart as pop songs, but nobody thought of them as a discrete genre, they were just 80s synthesizer pop songs, like "Tarzan Boy" and "Gloria" and "Self-Control". Even discogs doesn't call the latter two italo-disco songs, but rather synthpop and disco. (Seriously, lolwut?) So I recognize that unless my audience is both my age and either European or South American, they probably have not ever heard this song. But it was a big hit in most of the rest of the Western and pseudo-Western world.
While this was not really typical for music videos, it was apparently very typical for Italian "magazine shows" that were more overtly sexy, and the video was originally recorded with the intention to be the latter rather than the former. But the music video has become quite well-known via YouTube because... well, I suppose that's pretty obvious. As the comments in some of the video versions say, "I came for the hits, and stayed for the.... "
Regardless, I've seen concert videos of Sabrina singing this song too; she clearly knew exactly why she was popular. While she was a competent vocalist, the reality is that millions of girls could have sung the song just as capably; but it is unlikely that millions of girls could have flaunted their assets and drawn as much attention as easily as she did.
In any case, this link ISN'T the music video, it's just the song with the single cover.
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