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Stupid Girls

Just saw a video by Pink called Stupid Girls - it's a harsh criticism of the current moronic trend in American life that is telling young women to regress into dimwitted tools of the media and misogynists and gangster-rappers.

Pink envisions a version of herself as a co-ed with low self-esteem, or a bimbo in a convertible, too distracted to keep from running over sundry pedestrians, or as window-decoration in a "50-Cent" video:

Stupid girl, stupid girls, stupid girls
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back
What a paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl

Go to Fred Segal, you'll find them there
Laughing loud so all the little people stare
Looking for a daddy to pay for the champagne
(Drop a name)
What happened to the dreams of a girl president
She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent
They travel in packs of two or three
With their itsy bitsy doggies and their teeny-weeny tees
Where, oh where, have the smart people gone?
Oh where, oh where could they be?

Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back
What a paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blonde hair back
Push up my bra like that, I don't wanna be a stupid girl

The funny thing is that the video is a moral warning tale to young girls that may be influenced by our degraded pop-culture; a young girl is watching MTV with an angelic Pink on her left shoulder, and a demonic Pink on her right. The child makes a moral choice at the end that brought a smile to my face. While I am not a fan of any modern Pop music, I will say that Pink's other efforts have stood out from the pack for their originality and cleverness, and this tune does not disappoint.

posted by: underwhelmed at March 08, 2006 18:28 | link | comments (5) |

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#1  11 March 2006 - 09:52

 

i don't like her music, but I really like this song. I had the same response that you did to it.

Anonymous

#2  11 March 2006 - 22:55

 

"moronic trend in American life that is telling young women to regress into dimwitted tools of the media and misogynists and gangster-rappers!"... Fair enough, assuming it is somehow more virtuous to choose a football, aka -institutionalized sports, as the "moral choice", potencially just as (generically speaking of course) moronic, steriods ridden, illiteracy encouraging (not atypical), primitive endeavor which our species has yet to transcend despite thousands of years of the same result: The besting of our contrived opponents. BFD.
In the last scene, notice the music instruments sitting next to the football that our little heroine doesn't pick. Could it be that Pink's own media contrivance doesn't include learning an instrument as part of her "what's cool to the kids" check list? Perhaps she's taken a page from Eminem, who has so skillfully riden the coat tales of familiar sounding brand-names and social trends, appealing to, and indeed fueling the collective mental dance of selective hypocrisy that we comfort ourselves with from thought to thought.
Cheers!

Anonymous

#3  12 March 2006 - 08:03

 

I think Chris Rock says it best. "Man, you used to be able to defend rap on an intellectual level. Now, I have to defend 'Move bitch, get out the way.' I'm getting sick of saying, 'well, clearly there is a bitch in the man's way, and he simply wants her to get out.'" I hate the rap that is played on the radio, MTV, etc. There actually is some good, intellectual, constructive rap out there, you just have to look hard.

krazykounselor

#4  12 March 2006 - 17:35

 

Unlogged visitor, your words were well-spoken. The idea, I believe, in the little girl choosing the football was the promotion of her physical action of getting off the couch and doing something active and wholesome - something that we have not been encouraging children to do since TV made its appearance on the American scene.

underwhelmed

#5  12 March 2006 - 17:48

 

Kounselor, you are always welcome to come visit Libercontrarian and comment. I respectfully disagree about Rap, but in prior years I have heard some that I thought was pretty well written.

Think about it like this - it's written to make the masses of the people happy, so how good can it be?

;-)

underwhelmed

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