The demo version leaked on file sharing in April 2006 before I Created Disco was released after being featured on Pete Tong's Essential Selection.

[2] The song has been covered by electropop outfit Dragonette, who changed the main lyric to "The Boys".

The video features a group of women in brightly coloured wigs and underwear performing a dance routine around Harris.

"The Girls" has often been associated with the fictional characters Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell from the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

When they were introduced in 2007, a trailer announcing their arrival featured the song which showed Roxy dancing wildly and Ronnie spraying the residents with a soda syphon as some cheer them on whilst others look dismayed with the tagline "The Square – Under New Management".