Playing with the Boys

"Playing with the Boys" is a song by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins for the film Top Gun, featured in the beach volleyball scene toward the middle of the film prior to Maverick's (Tom Cruise) dinner date with Charlie (Kelly McGillis). It is available on both the original 1986 Top Gun soundtrack album and the 2000 expanded edition. The song peaked at No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100. Loggins re-recorded the song in 2021 featuring Butterfly Boucher.^[2]

"Playing with the Boys"
Single by Kenny Loggins
from the album Top Gun
Released	August 1986 [1]
Genre	Pop rock dance-rock
Length	3:59 (album version) 4:11 (video version) 6:41 (12" version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Kenny Loggins Peter Wolf Ina Wolf
Producer(s)	Peter Wolf
Kenny Loggins singles chronology
"Danger Zone" (1986) "Playing with the Boys" (1986) "Meet Me Half Way" (1987)
Music video
Kenny Loggins – Playing with the Boys on YouTube

Reception

Per Loggins's memoir, the song was a hit among gay nightclubs.^[3] Spin magazine's interviewer Jonathan Cohen called it "a sort of gay anthem".^[4]

Music video

Loggins performs the song in the middle of the men vs. women indoor volleyball game. In the end, the women won by 15–13.

Actors

James “Bobo” Fay, best known for the Animal Planet television series Finding Bigfoot and Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo podcast co-presented by Cliff Barackman and produced by Matt Pruitt, stars in this music video.^[5]

Cinematography

Edmund Cupcupin^[6] oversaw the cinematography for the music video.