Song 9: Stupid Girl (Garbage)

Song 9: Stupid Girl (Garbage)
(Level: B2 / Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate / ***)

Garbage
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Before listening / watching:

The following notes could be useful: 

Garbage: a Scottish-American rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. 

The band consists of Scottish-born Shirley Manson and Americans Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig.

Garbage released a few successful singles in 1995-1996, including Stupid Girl. 

Their debut album, Garbage, sold over 4 million copies and was certified double platinum in the UK, the USA and Australia. Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards. 

Garbage spent two years working on follow-up album, Version 2.0, which topped the charts in the UK and the following year was nominated for two Grammy Awards.

Garbage then performed and co-produced the theme song to the nineteenth James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.

Garbage's 2001 third album Beautiful Garbage didn’t succeed in matching the commercial success achieved by the previous albums.

After disbanding in 2003, Garbage regrouped to complete their fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005. 

The band later announced they had not broken up and wanted to pursue personal interests. But they regrouped again in 2007 to release a greatest hits album before considering recording a fifth studio album in 2008. 

They later released Not your Kind of People in 2012 and Strange Little Birds in 2016.

If you want to get more details about the band, get to their official site.

"Stupid Girl" was a single released in 1996 from Garbage’s 1995 debut album. It became Garbage's highest charting single in the UK and the USA. The song was subsequently nominated for two Grammy Awards as well as an MTV Video Music Award and MTV Europe Music Award.

While listening / watching:


Watch / Listen and fill in the gaps with the missing words. 

You pretend you're ................. (1)
Pretend you're ................... (2)
Pretend you're anything
Just to be .................. (3)
And what you need
Is what you get

Don't believe in .................. (4)
Don't believe in .................. (5)
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you .................... (6)
All you had you .................... (6)

What drives you on
Can drive you ................ (7)
A million lies to sell ................... (8)
Is all you ever had

Don't believe in ................... (9)
Don't believe in ................... (10)
Don't believe in anything
That you can't waste

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

Don't believe in .................... (11)
Don't believe in .................... (12)
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

You stupid girl

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When you are finished, you can check your answers!

You pretend you're high (1)
Pretend you're bored (2)
Pretend you're anything
Just to be adored (3)
And what you need
Is what you get

Don't believe in fear (4)
Don't believe in faith (5)
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted (6)
All you had you wasted (6)

What drives you on
Can drive you mad (7)
A million lies to sell yourself (8)
Is all you ever had

Don't believe in love (9)
Don't believe in hate (10)
Don't belive in anything
That you can't waste

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

Don't believe in fear (11)
Don't believe in pain (12)
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame

You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it

You stupid girl