This song is for Song Lyric Sunday for Jim Adams’s blog. This week’s prompt…Smart/Stupid. Hope everyone had a good safe Halloween.
Not a feel good song by the Rolling Stones. The song was on their album Afterman released in 1966. This was the B side to the great song Paint It Black. The Stones are known for a good amount of misogyny in their songs…this one and Under My Thumb are no exceptions.
Aftermath peaked at #2 in the Billboard Album Charts and #1 in the UK in 1966.
Stupid Girl was recorded at Los Angeles’ RCA Studios on 6–9 March 1966.
Mick Jagger: “It’s much nastier than Under My Thumb. Obviously, I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn’t in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren’t pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group”
Keith Richards: “Songs like “Under My Thumb” and “Stupid Girl” were all a spin-off from our environment – hotels, and too many dumb chicks. Not all dumb, not by any means, but that’s how one got.”
Stupid Girls
I’m not talking about the kind of clothes she wears
Look at that stupid girl
I’m not talking about the way she combs her hair
Look at that stupid girl
The way she powders her nose
Her vanity shows and it shows
She’s the worst thing in this world
Well, look at that stupid girl
I’m not talking about the way she digs for gold
Look at that stupid girl
Well, I’m talking about the way she grabs and holds
Look at that stupid girl
The way she talks about someone else
That she don’t even know herself
She’s the sickest thing in this world
Well, look at that stupid girl
Well, I’m sick and tired
And I really have my doubts
I’ve tried and tried
But it never really works out
Like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen
Look at that stupid girl
She bitches ’bout things that she’s never seen
Look at that stupid girl
It doesn’t matter if she dyes her hair
Or the color of the shoes she wears
She’s the worst thing in this world
Well, look at that stupid girl
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up
Shut up, shut up, shut up
Like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen
Look at that stupid girl
She bitches ’bout things that she’s never seen
Look at that stupid girl
She purrs like a pussycat
Then she turns ’round and hisses back
She’s the sickest thing in this world
Look at that stupid girl
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Ironic and rough. There’s also an interesting version by Ellen Foley.
It sounds like a horrible title, but it’s really just a bitter guy moaning about his ex… I think Under My Thumb is worse!
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Keef pulls no punches when talking about Stupid Girls does he?
No he doesnt…. that is why they were protested by numerous groups lol.
Thanks for joining in Max and I had totally forgotten about this song.
Thanks for inviting me. I’m glad I could get it in. This one was an old unfinished draft of mine that fit. I have around 100 in my draft folder…but unfinished.
I started drafting one yesterday that I didn’t like the way it turned out so I trashed it. Maybe I should start saving them also.
I usually do…I’ve gone back to them many times. Everytime I hear a song I like I write the band and title on a draft…sometimes the lyrics and video…that way it’s started.
Never heard that one before…
I have heard it a few times from their singles collection…it came to mind on the song challenge.
A new one to me…sounds ok for what it is but I like Garbage’s song of same title better. Plus there’s bonus possibility with that one of it being the video & getting to watch Shirley Manson…
LOL… yes the visual is better I give you that.
Aftermath is one of my favorite Stones albums. I love this minimalist sound, which really highlights Mick’s voice and Keith’s guitar. How old were the guys back then? Typical young dude lyrics.
Around 22-23…yea I liked this album and Between The Buttons a year later.
I prefer this one:
https://youtu.be/2GhPUAVgHZc
Yea me also.
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