Cutting but not completely malicious imo? Her taking a bite out of that sponge always gets a laugh from me.
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Cutting but not completely malicious imo? Her taking a bite out of that sponge always gets a laugh from me.
Posted by glittangrease
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Damn. I’m old is my first thought.
The pick-me girl anthem.
I vastly prefer Garbage’s “Stupid Girl”. I don’t know, it always sounded like Shirley was criticizing a specific person for more specific behavior and not generic slut shaming like in Pink’s song.
This song was very of the time but it’s definitely pick me and misogynistic
i think everyone agrees that it didn’t age well but most people don’t hold it against her.
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So 2000s with its internalized misogyny. Poorly aged as hell, but common of its time. Terrible lead single honestly, but the production is kind of fire.
back then it would get stuck in my head and i kind of thought it was funny but didn’t think about it too much bc i didn’t identify with either the girls she’s making fun of or with pink
now i think it’s gross. she was making fun of women who were experiencing really terrible things and being stalked and hounded by paparazzi trying to get pictures of their cuchi and seeing online countdowns to their 18th bday. it was def the sentiment of the time to wanna show that you weren’t like those other shallow girls, but i also wonder how someone wouldn’t have thought this was in bad taste??
I can see how it wouldn’t age well but I loved it when it came out. The early 2000’s were a totally different era. As a pale, dark haired girl who loved books I sure felt like the weirdo. The pervasive glorification of skinny with big boobs, tan, blonde, and dumb was exhausting.
Catchy song and the will it f*ck up my hair line still makes me laugh very time I think about it. But I thought it was mean back then and I still think it’s mean now.
Even at the time, the bulemia portrayal (if I’m remembering correctly) in the video didn’t sit well. As a little girl in the early 2000s, I literally didn’t know a single person who didn’t either skip meals,get dizzy from hunger but still not eat, or make themselves throw up occasionally even if it didn’t rise to the level of a technical eating disorder.
I love this song and it was the truth of majority of society. Paris Hilton made a whole career by playing dumb and everyone fell for it! Downvote away but I do think it represented that time in pop culture. I am so glad we have grown and learned since then
If you weren’t alive/too young to remember the 2000s and how fucked up everything was with how the media treated women, and how women were brainwashed to hate each other, just watch this music video.
Am I only one who doesn’t see this as the “pick-me” anthem? Idk, it’s very much giving “men are not the end-all-be-all; have your own ambitions, and stop living to impress them.”
I remember watching an mtv interview with her back in the early 2000s and she straight up referred to Paris Hilton and her ilk as “do nothing bitches” in it.
Just like a pill slaps everytime
I have no real problem with the song or video. She is criticizing an aesthetic and vibe she does not like.
I’m ready for the downvotes, but I think it was a flawed, but overall good feminist anthem FOR THE TIME. Back then was the birth of the vapid style automaton we’re so familiar with today. Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson built celebrity around the core ideal of being hot and stupid, (now we know, fake idiocy, which IMO is even worse). There was ZERO representation of women who weren’t western ideals of beauty. Cosmo told me to pretend to be stupid and helpless to boost my boyfriend’s self esteem. Everything Pink talks about in this song was crammed down our throats. It was a truly awful time, and this song was meaningful. I wish she had targeted the patriarchal industries that created the “stupid girl” trend, instead of its figureheads, but at least it was something.
I was 6 years old and me and my friends would switch between this video and the crazy frog video and idk what damage it did but it had to have done something
I always found this song and Pink to be quite hypocritical. I’m not sure I can articulate it properly so hopefully this makes sense, but she had no problem dancing around in lingerie singing Lady Marmalade, a quite sexual song, then a few years later releases Stupid Girls basically making fun of women who do the same thing? Not cool.
I’ve always seen it as just a social commentary and it still tracks 20 years later with all the young girls that just want to be influencers. Ironically calling this a pick me song is actually the pick me behaviour lol
Am I the only one who thinks it’s not as bad as everyone keeps saying it is?
Song is catchy though…
I personally think this song has been misinterpreted but at the same time, the music video doesn’t highlight the underlying point very well, so I can understand the “pick me” vibe.
My interpretation of the song is that women shouldn’t do things for men, they should do things for themselves and fulfill their dreams/potential, whatever that may be. It addresses the issues of its time, albeit in a way that lacks nuance.
Look, if you want to be the girl in the video dancing next to 50 cent, go for it! But also, don’t be deterred from seeking out roles that have been inherently male dominated (i.e. POTUS), if that’s what interests you.
I get what the intention was, but the video also implies women with eating disorders are “stupid girls” when really that’s in part a consequence of patriarchal messaging.
In the end, the message should have emphasized that women should be who they want to be, despite societal expectations.
P!nk really doesn’t strike me as a “pick me” — just someone who values individuality, and the intentions of this song were undermined by the way it was delivered.
I loved this song/video so much, now that I’m older I realized you can just be both lol
I sing this song regularly, it’s catchy.
Felt like a hater then and feels like it still.