The Story Behind The Song: Stupid Girls (Pink)

Today on The Story Behind the Song, we look behind P!nk’s track ‘Stupid Girls’ (2006).

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let Me tell You a Story on time cy and
leases the story behind the song.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
And that story behind the song. Song today is Stupid
Girls by Pink from her fourth studio album I'm Not Dead.
It was released in February two thousand and six. It
introduces a more provocative, feminist and explicit side of Pink Lyrically,
it condemns sexism, and it encourages women not to dumb
it down. The music video features Pink in a variety

(00:30):
of roles, both as an angel and a demon, and
a variety of celebrities. Some of the negatively portrayed characters
in the video are parodies of young female celebrities of
the time that didn't necessarily go down.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, did you ever hear from any of the girls
you parodied in the music video for Stupid Girl? I did.
Actually the test, Paris was upset with me.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
She was She was, what did she say? And how
did you hear from her?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I was at a club. She said, I just want
you to know that I get it, like, I'm not dumb.
I just play like I'm dumb. And I was like,
that's kind of my point.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Right, I'm gonna go good to see fair enough too.
It's so true and all guys hand in hand with
the Yeah, it's been well documented the why she has
raised her daughter Willow, who she's performed with, and you know,
the strong messages and why played dumb when you don't
have to.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't dumb it down.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
This bizarre.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I think she had this discussion with Andrew Denton.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
There's one force fed image of what a woman is
supposed to look like, how she's supposed to act, how
many big words she's allowed to use in this paragraph,
what shoes she should have in order to be sexy.
You have to be stupid in order to be successful,
be less challenging, don't contribute anything to the world because
it's not cute. Just all of these just perpetuating stereotypes

(01:51):
that I just find so boring and so nauseating. Yeah,
there's references, very clear references, and that clipper, you know,
to all our favorites paras Hilton and Nicole Richardson. Have
you met any of these girls, Yes, And I don't
think any of them are stupid. So you can't be
that successful and be that's and be stupid. I think
it's an act, and it's the act that I can't
respect

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Exactly self explanatory on your pink