Smart Girls
| "Smart Girls" | |||||||
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| Song by Brian Wilson from the album Sweet Insanity | |||||||
| Published | 1991 | ||||||
| Recorded |
August 23, 1990 Studio Ultimo | ||||||
| Genre | Surf rap[1] | ||||||
| Length | 4:09 | ||||||
| Label | Sire/Reprise/Warner Bros. (rejected) | ||||||
| Writer | Brian Wilson | ||||||
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"Smart Girls" is a song written by Brian Wilson for his rejected 1991 album Sweet Insanity.[2] Co-produced by Wilson, his former therapist Eugene Landy, and Matt Dike,[1] its recording was allegedly at the insistence of Landy.[3][4] An original acetate credits Wilson, Alexandra Morgan, and Landy for writing.
The song is a hip hop pastiche containing numerous Beach Boys samples, self-quotations, and autobiographical allusions.[5] Its lyrical content encompasses Wilson's infatuation with intelligent women as he illustrates that his old Beach Boys songs only showed a superficial appreciation for women.[6] In 2015, Wilson was asked about "Smart Girls" and said, "Yeah, we were just having a good time. Yeah, it was fun. We were just kidding."[3]
Author-musician Jason Hartley wrote: "What is important was that Wilson was embracing rap when many older rockers thought that rap wasn't real music. As ridiculous as 'Smart Girls' may seem to you today, at the very least, Brian Wilson was on the right side of history."[6]
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References
- 1 2 Stereogum (December 3, 2007). "Brian Wilson’s Psychotic Surf Rap". Stereogum.
- ↑ Vena, Jocelyn (March 26, 2015). "Brian Wilson Explains Scrapped Frank Ocean, Lana Del Rey Collabs". Billboard.
- 1 2 Herrera, Dave (July 10, 2015). "A Q&A with Brian Wilson". Las Vegas Review Journal.
- ↑ Carlin, Peter Ames (2006). Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. Rodale. p. 270. ISBN 978-1-59486-320-2.
- ↑ Lambert, Philip (2007). Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: the Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius. Continuum. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-8264-1876-0.
- 1 2 Hartley, Jason (2010). The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?. Simon & Schuster. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-4391-1748-4.
