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Girlfriend" is a 1991 single by the American power pop musician Matthew Sweet, released as the lead single from his third album, Girlfriend. The song reached on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. In July 2017, Sweet told WXRT radio in Chicago that a friend and musician on the album, Lloyd Cole, convinced him that it was a good song worthy of the album.

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Matthew Sweet's third album is a remarkable artistic breakthrough. Grounded in the guitar pop of the Beatles, Big Star, Byrds, . and Neil Young, Girlfriend melds all of Sweet's influences into one majestic, wrenching sound that encompasses both the gentle country-rock of "Winona" and the winding guitars of the title track and "Divine Intervention. Sweet's music might have recognizable roots, but Girlfriend never sounds derivative; thanks to his exceptional songwriting, the album is a fresh, original interpretation of a classic sound.

Girlfriend was Matthew Sweet’s third album, written in 1990 following his divorce. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he said It’s funny how the album ended up showing everything I needed to feel. Everything I needed as an antidote is there. Released on October 22, 1991, Girlfriend is Sweet’s most commercially and critically successful album to date, The album peaked at on the Billboard 200 album chart and was the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop critic’s poll best album of 1991  . The original title of the album was to be Nothing Lasts, but Weld objected to the implication. Jim Rondinelli, the engineer on the album, said It’s one of the greatest divorce records ever made.

This was Matthew Sweet's breakout single, but it nearly got binned along with the rest of the album. Born in Nebraska in 1964, Sweet attended the University of Georgia, located in the musical hotbed of Athens, Georgia, home of . In 1983, he joined a band called Oh-OK, which included Michael Stipe's sister, Linda. This led to more musical connections and a gig playing with The Golden Palominos. Columbia Records signed him and released his first album, Inside, in 1986, followed by Earth in 1989

Matthew Sweet is an American singer-songwriter and rock musician. He was part of the burgeoning music scene in Georgia during the '80s, before gaining commercial success in the '90s. In 1991 Matthew Sweet released Girlfriend, the pop-rock album which was widely considered an artistic breakthrough. It quickly garnered impressive sales, spawning a top 10 single with the title track. The music video for "Girlfriend" featured clips from the anime film Space Adventure Cobra and was heavily aired on MTV, MuchMusic and Night Tracks

Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet is his commercial and artistic breakthrough and a power pop masterpiece originally released in 1991. Girlfriend is full of haunting, heartbreak songs fueled by Matthew s divorce and it features guitar contributions by Robert Quine, Richard Lloyd and Lloyd Cole. From the album cover of a young Tuesday Weld, to the killer songs filling the album, this is one of the best releases of the 1990s and a certified classic.