Garbage - Stupid Girl

"Stupid Girl" is a song by Garbage, released as a single in 1996, taken from their 1995 self-titled debut album. Litter became the highest charting single in many territories, including in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, reaching # 4. Its success was driven by an innovative avant-garde music and video remixes that received massive radio worldwide.

Written by members Duke Erikson of Garbage, Shirley Manson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, the song is based on a drum sample from The Clash 1980 hit "Train in vain", whose authors Joe Strummer and Mick Jones was a co - credit for song writing. In 2007, "Stupid Girl" was remastered and included in the trash greatest hits album Absolute Garbage. The remaining members of The Clash, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon, were given a co-writing credit on the remastered version of the song.

The promotional video for "Stupid Girl" was filmed on January 16, 1996 in Los Angeles by director Samuel Bayer. The video of a single "Only happy when it rains" was shot at the same time. The video for "Only Happy when it rains" was a bigger budget that the video for "Stupid Girl", because it believes that the Almo Sounds a first blow would be larger than the second. MTV certificate "Stupid Girl" a Buzz-clip, the band's third video in a row to ensure Airplay heavy on the network, while the video includes VH1 Pop Up Video on one episode.

You pretend you're high
Pretend you're bored
Pretend you're anything
Just to be adored
And what you need
Is what you get

Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted

What drives you on
Can drive you mad
A million lies to sell yourself
Is all you ever had

Don't believe in love
Don't believe in hate
Don't belive in anything
That you can't waste

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in pain
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

You stupid girl

The video for "Stupid Girl" is a piece inspired by the title of the sequence of David Fincher's 1995 film Se7en. The clip was shot in just four hours entirely within a store. Bayer cut into pieces of the film, and soaked in the bath, the deliberate application of fingerprints and abrasions before putting the footage together again hand.Bayer later reprinted by a second version of the video, with images of the original alternative to shoot a remix version of "Stupid Girl" by Todd Terry.

The "Stupid Girl" video was released commercially on VHS and Video-CD in 1996 Video of garbage, along with the "making of" off-shoot. A remastered version was later included on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits DVD Absolute Garbage.