Stupidest Girl In The World


Information:
  • Information from a 2007 Interview with Barry Egan:
    One song is perhaps the touchstone of the record, executive-produced by her close friends and confidantes, Bono and Gavin Friday. "My life, just when it's going well, I smash it all to pieces," she melancholises like a Gaelic Bessie Smith on The Stupidest Girl In The World, a song she wrote three years ago. "It is what everybody does," the vibrant young chanteuse ventures an explanation.

    Self-destruction?

    "Kind of," she hesitates. "As soon as things are smooth, you do something to mess it up yourself."

    Is that a fear of a relationship not working so you destroy it?

    "I don't know because I don't analyse it too much," she says, playing with her famous raven hair, "but I think everybody has ended up in situations where they've thought, 'Jesus, how am I possibly back here again?' As soon as you've got complacent or nonchalant about something, you've actually messed it all up.

    "You end up in something that's not good for you but you keep ending up back there." She adds, when I press her on it, that there is "always something specific. It is a personal thing at the time, obviously."

    Do your sisters ever say to you - as sisters do - "You should have stayed with him?"

    "No, it's more like," she laughs, "'You should never have been with him.'"

    "The Stupidest Girl In The World is about putting yourself back in a situation that is not good for you. Everybody has their patterns. We have to try and learn and evolve, I think. That's called maturing. Do I think I have? I hope I'm always learning [but] I'm certainly not finished"

    What's your pattern, Andrea Corr?

    "God!" she shrieks as if I've asked what's she like in bed. I protest that she has put her soul into this record's lyrics and surely that the singer and the song are one and the same. Writing and music is, she says, an insight into your own character, but "often the way I have put it within the songs is the only way. I have put it in a concise way and if I have said it that way, that is all I have wanted to say. I didn't write sleeve notes. It is like a poem. It is all I have wanted to say."

    If I was interviewing Sylvia Plath, I tell Andrea, I would ask her why she wrote The Bell Jar in the same way I am asking her why she wrote The Stupidest Girl In The World.

    "Often I learn more about myself than people do. Maybe it is just the human condition. Maybe we are all... you know," she laughs, "f****d".
     
Written By:
  • Stupidest Girl In The World was written by Andrea for her solo album Ten Feet High.
     


Lyrics:
My life, just when it's going well I smash it all in pieces.
I'm like a magnet to the ground to everything that's creeping.

What am I doing back here,
I thought I'd finished with you,
But I'm starting again.
What am I gonna do now,
Who do you really love now
Getting broken again.

Your life and your covenant to lie that promise you'll be keeping, I'm sure.
I know your every gritty move, it wakes me when I'm sleeping.

What am I doing back here,
I thought I'd finished with you,
But I'm starting again.
What am I gonna do now,
Who do you really love now
Getting broken again.

These situations
Are my own creation,
A dark fascination,
I want to be small again.

I lose concentration,
You sense my vacation,
A prime invitation,
You're getting control again.

What am I doing back here,
I thought I'd finished with you
But I'm starting again.
What am I gonna do now,
Who do you really love now
Getting broken again.



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