Pink - Stupid Girls.

Stupid Girls by Pink is a song explaining about how young girls aspire to be like female celebrities rather to strive for their talents and a career.

In the video a young girl is sitting on a couch watching tv, she has an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other symbolizing her good and bad influences of her future. The devil is the influence to be a 'stupid girl' that falls into the influence of the media about her body and self esteem and the angel is the good influence to a smart and ambitious girl. 

She turns on the television to show a women teaching a class of girls about how to flick your hair. The girl, after seeing this, imitates the tv and flips her hair. This symbolizes how big of an influence media has on young girls that watch tv or look at magazines because they copy what they see. She then changes the channel to a girl walking into a clothing shop who is representing young female celebrities such as Mary Kate Olsen. She walks into the store with a tiny dog imitating celebrities today like Paris Hilton, but on her way she walks into the window expressing the fact that she is a dumb and ditzy blonde. Alot of pink and glittery clothes are used in this scene to imitate the 'stupid girl.' In some other scenes she portrays the negative image on other celebrities like Lindsay Lohan with the scene with the red-head girl in the car running over someone on a pedestrian crossing. She also mocks Jessica Simpson with the scene of her in her bikini washing a car which is relating to Jessica in 'Dukes of Hazard.' In these scenes she is trying to show the negative image that girls are seen from society in their jobs and that they are not taken seriously.

Pink uses this line as a portrayal of women being used a sexual object "What happened to the dream of a girl president? She's dancing in the video next to 50 cent." which is expressing the point that women would rather be dancing in a video clip looking sexy than being successful in the world. The consequence of girls dancing sexy in as backstage dancers in singers video clips is that people watching will see them as a sex object and the men think that we aren't worth as much as them.

"Disease's growing, it's epidemic, i'm scared that there ain't a cure. The world believes it and im going crazy. I  cannot take anymore. I'm so glad that i'll never fit in, that will never be me. Outcasts and girls with ambition, thats what i wanna see."
This line from Pink shows that women all over the world are falling into the trap of the media and thinks that they need to be sexually attractive to get attention instead of getting good jobs. Pink states that she will never be a stupid girl and that she is frustrated because women are selling themselves short by not realizing their full potential.

This song is significant because in today's world women are bombarded with media everywhere, there is a strong relationship between the message that media sends about women and how they are treated in society. The image of woman as sexual objects places an emphasis on physical appearance which makes this a problem for most teenage girls because the beauty portrayed in the media is limited, only skinny women with big boobs are seen as sexy. The character in Pinks video clip getting a spray tan and getting plastic surgery shows how desperate girls get to look like the women they see in the media. The scene in the bathroom shows another dark side to the pressure from the media on teenage girls showing a girl in a bathroom saying "Oh my god you guys, i totally had more than 300 calories. That was so not sexy." and then sticks a toothbrush down her throat to throw back up her food to make herself skinnier. Pink also shows the fact that girls feel like they need to use their bodies as a sexual object to get attention especially from men. This is shown in the scene at the gym when Pink is on the treadmill but the gym trainer goes towards another girl because she is bigger boobs which makes teenage girls feel like need to change to compete with them. 

At the end of the video she shows the character as a female president that gives us hope that women will change and use their brains. She represents the opposite of 'stupid girl' a women with ambition and power that isn't worried about her appearance. Then the young girl has a chance to pick between playing with a football or playing with her barbie dolls, she picks her football showing the audience that smart girls are out there and not everyone follows the current trend.

This video favours girls and women all around the world saying that not all teenagers are after perfection and influenced by the media, they just want to be themselves and not try to look like someone else. However many girls are still after perfect.