Stupid girls
| Stupid girls | |
|---|---|
| P nk | |
| publication | March 10, 2006 |
| length | 3:17 |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| Author (s) | P! Nk , Billy Mann , Robin Lynch, Niklas Olovson |
| album | I'm not dead |
Stupid Girls (Engl. For stupid girls ) is a rock / pop song by the US singer P! Nk from 2006. The piece was written by P! Nk, Billy Mann, Robin Lynch and Niklas Olovson.
content
The lyrics, written in the first person perspective, criticize the reduction to externalities (" Flippin 'my blonde hair back / Push up my bra like that ") and adapted behavior (" Maybe if I act like that / That guy will call me back ") . He also raises questions about what happened to the dream of a female president who is now dancing next to 50 Cent , or where the smart people have gone. The position is taken that it is the outcasts and the girls with ambition that the first-person narrator wants to see (“ Outcasts and girls with ambition / That's what I wanna see ”).
Music video
The music video for the single was made in 2005 under the direction of Dave Meyers . The storyline begins with Pink in the role of an angel and a devil on the shoulders of a girl, who offer a contrasting image of a woman. On the angel's side are characters like a teacher or a politician, on the other side a shopping queen, a dancer in a rap video, a self-tanner user , a bosom miracle or a bulimic . P! Nk in a recognizable way satirizes celebrities like Mary-Kate Olsen while shopping in a Fred Segal boutique , Paris Hilton in her video “1 Night in Paris”, Lindsay Lohan while she is putting on makeup at the wheel of a car and two passers-by run over, or Jessica Simpson in their music video for These Boots are Made for Walking . The video ends with a plot point when the girl chooses one of the two roles and decides to play with a football instead of dolls.
The music video won the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in the Best Pop Video category.
P! Nk himself was satirized in a similar way in the music video Do it with Madonna by the Australian band The Androids, realized by Bart Borghesi in August 2002 .
reception
Jon Pareles reviewed the song and the video for the New York Times as a mockery of all squeaky, mindless, windy starlets and wannabees ( " mocks every bouncy, vapid, pneumatic starlet and wannabe " )
About.com's Bill Lamb says P! Nk deserves praise for addressing the superficial and destructive stereotypes of young women ( " she has deservedly received praise for taking on shallow, destructive images of young women " ).
Pink biographer Paul Lester also mentions hypocrisy accusations from critics in his work. She herself has built her own image as a party girl on her appearance and knows about the Hilton doctrine " I'll do what I want, cuz I can " .
Chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
5 (15 weeks) | 15th |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
3 (22 weeks) | 22nd |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
2 (39 weeks) | 39 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
4th (17 weeks) | 17th |
 United States (Billboard)
|
13 (20 weeks) | 20th |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pink: Stupid Girls | SWR3 pop lexicon. In: swr3.de. Retrieved April 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Dave Meyers - Video Credits. (PDF; 196 kB) (No longer available online.) In: davemeyers.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013 ; accessed on April 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Paul Lester: Pink: Split Personality . Omnibus Press, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84938-060-7 .
- ↑ Dave Meyers / Awards - Music Video. (PDF; 122 kB) (No longer available online.) In: davemeyers.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; accessed on April 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Henry Keazor , Thorsten Wübbena: Video Thrills the Radio Star . transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89942-728-8 .
- ↑ Jon Pareles: Nothing but Party Girls, Vapid or Hard to Get. In: nytimes.com. February 5, 2006, accessed April 25, 2013 .
- ↑ Bill Lamb: Pink - Stupid Girls (Sony). In: about.com. Retrieved April 25, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e DE AT CH UK US
