Boyfriend

Cosentino wrote it and Lewis Pesacov produced it for Mexican Summer. Wikipedia's song page says it was released on June 29, 2010 as an iTunes free Discovery Download and calls it the lead single, while the album page says the single came on October 18, 2010; we leave that open. The LA Times compared its opening drum fill to Springsteen's "Badlands"; Cosentino told Rolling Stone people think they ripped it off, but Bruno claims he had no idea. Pitchfork named it a Best New Track, and NME placed it 49th in its 150 best tracks of the past fifteen years. A Lindstrom remix runs 9:06 extended and 4:52 as a radio edit.

Taylor Cohen directed the video, shot at Kenneth Hahn Park in September 2010 with Best Coast as the party band at a quinceañera, and it debuted on MTV that October. Cosentino said the other ideas were about her being with a man, which seemed too straightforward. In August 2020 she wrote that at 22 she wrote a song about someone she was literally obsessed with, and that it started to feel problematic to her around age 30; on August 7, 2020 she released a re-recorded version with inclusive pronouns on Bandcamp for one day, all proceeds to The Trevor Project. She said LGBTQ+ fans, including couples who shared a first kiss to it, showed her the song carried a new meaning. They played it on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on January 3, 2011. Wikipedia's discography lists only a Mexican airplay peak of 28. We found no covers or samples and no setlist.fm count.