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Stupid GirlGarbage

Released: January 22, 1996

Songwriter: Shirley Manson Butch Vig Steve Marker Duke Erikson Joe Strummer Mick Jones

Producer: Garbage

[Verse 1]
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

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break

[Chorus]
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had, you wasted
All you had, you wasted

[Verse 2]
What drives you on (drives you on)
Can drive you mad (drive you mad)
A million lies to sell yourself
Is all you ever had

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Don't believe in love
Don't believe in hate
Don't believe in anything
That you can't waste

[Chorus]
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

[Instrumental break]

[Pre-Chorus 3]
Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in pain
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame

[Chorus]
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had, you wasted
All you had, you wasted
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
I can't believe you fake it
I can't believe you fake it
Stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

[Outro]
You stupid girl

Garbage

Garbage is a Scottish-American Alternative rock band, formed April 8th 1994. Once producer Butch Vig decided to break out of the rock he had been producing ever since Nirvana’s Nevermind, he got together with his college/studio partners Duke Erikson and Steve Marker to write some demos that would basically be remixes in song form. Once someone commented that “it sounds like garbage”, Vig decided to embrace the name. Then they invited Scottish singer Shirley Manson after seeing her on MTV, and the band’s sound was completed with sly, dark and snarky lyrics delivered in a sultry way.

The band’s eponymous debut album was a surprise hit upon release in August 1995, selling more than 4 million copies worldwide. Follow-up Version 2.0 (1998) was equally successful, even receiving a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Then the band recorded “The World Is Not Enough” to the eponymous James Bond movie, and the record industry started to bring the band down.

Beautiful Garbage (2001) was barely promoted due to a release too close to the 9/11 attacks, and underperformed at the charts. Fourth album Bleed Like Me (2005) had a troubled production where bandmembers were frequently arguing, and eventually the album’s tour was cut short and Garbage disbanded for 2 years, only regrouped in 2007 to record new tracks for greatest hits compilation Absolute Garbage.

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