Stupid Girl (Cold song)

"Stupid Girl" is the lead single off alternative metal band Cold's third major label album, Year of the Spider. It was the second song released for the album overall; "Gone Away" was released on the WWE Tough Enough 2 soundtrack while recognized as a Year of the Spider track nearly a year prior to its release. "Stupid Girl" made its radio debut on March 18, 2003 and met with high success. The song, as well as its music video, were heavily played on MTV2 and Fuse TV throughout the several months following its release.

"Stupid Girl" marks a shift in Cold's style into a substantially more commercial direction. Frontman Scooter Ward began working on the song in 2002 and, although he liked the guitar riff, considered it too reminiscent of Weezer, a band that Cold had toured with earlier and befriended. Ward subsequently asked Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo to lend a hand in the song's development for their first and only collaboration. The verse lyrics and opening/chorus guitar riff were then written by Cuomo. Originally the two singers planned to trade off vocals, but after Cuomo heard Ward's tracks, he decided to limit his vocal contribution to the pre-chorus.^[1] The song blatantly revolves around relationship troubles with bits of tongue-in-cheek phrasing commonly found in Cuomo's writing style.

An acoustic version of the song was performed on Sessions@AOL which aired on Fuse TV in 2003.^[2]

1 Music video
2 Track listing
3 Charts
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Music video

The "Stupid Girl" video was directed by Marc Webb, who previously worked with Cold on "Just Got Wicked," on February 22, 2003 in Minneapolis. The band drafted fans for the video to meet at the Bancroft schoolyard in south Minneapolis.^[3] "Stupid Girl" has the band performing on a small outdoor stage in the cold February weather. Fans are shown tearing up signs with the names of their apparent former significant others. The song is generally recognized simply as a Cold song and Rivers Cuomo, who contributed to its development, does not appear in the video.

The band initially wanted shots of them performing on a frozen lake filled with fans, but with Geffen worrying about the potential for injury, the band opted for the schoolyard instead.