In Love with a Girl

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Name = In Love with a Girl


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Artist = Gavin DeGraw
Album = Gavin DeGraw
Released = February 12 2008 (digital download)
Format = Digital download, Airplay
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:30
Label = J Records
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Producer = Howard Benson
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Last single = "We Belong Together"
(2006)
This single = "In Love with a Girl"
(2008)
Next single = "She Holds a Key"
(2008)
Misc ="This article is about the Gavin DeGraw song. For the White Stripes song, see Fell in Love with a Girl."

"In Love with a Girl" is a song recorded by American singer Gavin DeGraw. It is officially confirmed as the lead single from DeGraw's eponymous, or self-titled, second studio album, released on February 5 2008.

Music video

The music video premiered on March 25, 2008 on Yahoo! Music. Kristin Cavallari can be seen in the video, playing his love interest.The video begins with the shopping mall closing then Kristin while hiding under a register desk receives a text message saying "I'm Here XOXO" opening the door to her mysterious boyfriend who was hidden under a hood and starts playing around the mall while videotaping it while avoiding getting captured by a security guard who's doing the night shift at the end she takes off the hood off her boyfriend and it revealed it was Gavin and it ends them leaving out of the mall. During some scenes Gavin is playing the piano while his band perform in a green room with a chandelier in the top. The video was filmed in a Sears store.

Critical Reception

The song received many positive reactions. Katie Hasty from "Billboard" commented: ""In Love With a Girl" opens with heavily distorted guitars as minor chords roll through, but be not deceived: Lyrically, the track is happy, with the 30-year-old songwriter heralding a girl that "understands." One flaw beleaguers DeGraw's normally dependable croon: the unnecessary presence of auto-tuning, which is mightily distracting. Beyond that, "Girl" is a rocking home run in the same ballpark as "I Don't Want to Be." The chorus is buoyant, backed with idyllic drum tracks alongside, driving each word-heavy verse, as DeGraw's snappy piano lines may have fans playing, heaven forbid, air piano." [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/singles/e3i064ef4c02067f0c8ef6c97b24c67ab35 Billboard review] .] ]

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