Stupid Girl

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: March 1966        Recording location: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Performed onstage: 1966

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Brian Jones
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Organ: Ian Stewart
Electric piano: Jack Nitzsche
Tambourine: Mick Jagger
 

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 about 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

Like a lady-in-waiting to a virgin queen
Look at that stupid girl
She bitches about things that she's never seen
Look at that stupid girl

And she purrs like a pussycat
Then she turns around and hisses back
She's the sickest thing in this world
Look at that stupid girl
 
 

TrackTalk

(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.

- Keith Richards, 1971


(I)t'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.

- Mick Jagger, 1995


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