- 2024-04-27
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Bonnie McKee Releases New Song “Jenny's Got a Boyfriend”
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee released a new song “Jenny's Got a Boyfriend” on April 24, 2024.
The song is the fourth single off of her upcoming long-awaited sophomore album “Hot City”, which is expected to be released in May 2024.
Initially, the second album was supposed to be released via Epic Records in 2013, but was scraped.
She re-recorded the album in 2023 after leaving Epic Records.
The track was written by Bonnie McKee, and produced by David Mørup, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Switch.
“'Jenny's Got A Boyfriend' was inspired by a friend's boyfriend who was a terrible flirt. He was always giving me and all the other girls the wrong idea!” Bonnie McKee said of the song. “I always wanted to write a song with a person's name in the title, and when I was listening to some classics, I rediscovered 'Jesse's Girl' and realized I was having the same experience- but I'd never heard the angle of lusting after someone else's partner through the female lens. 'JGABF' is kind of like 'Jolene' in reverse, if Dolly's man were a flirtatious playboy (which maybe he was!)”- The accompanying music video was co-directed by David Richardson and Bonnie McKee.
Bonnie McKee said of the video, “I co-directed the video with my long time collaborator David Richardson. It's very difficult to direct when you're also the main character, and David and I share a love of throwback special effects and comedic storytelling, so I knew he would deliver.” -
She continued, “It was important to me to highlight the fact that this imagined romance with another woman's boyfriend was only a fantasy and not something I would actually act on, so we threw in some high-camp light up nether regions to keep the storyline light and playful on a subject that might land me in 'homewrecker' territory. Don't worry- no boyfriends were stolen in the making of this song!” - source : Apple Music
