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]