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• This song is about girls who are focused on their sexuality and how they are perceived by others - girls who get plastic surgery and are overly concerned about who the next guy is they'll go out with. Pink feels girls should be more focused on their talents and careers, and is concerned that there aren't better role models for these girls. >>>

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• In the video, helmed by her frequent director Dave Meyers, Pink plays both an angel and a demon trying to influence a young girl. The angel shows her images of trendy girls modeled after young celebrities like Lindsay Lohan (the reckless driver), Jessica Simpson (the bikini-clad car washer), Mary-Kate Olsen (the youth-obsessed shopper), and Paris Hilton (the amateur porn star), all portrayed by Pink. The singer also plays herself failing to meet their standards, with her tan being too orange and her breasts being too small. In the end, the girl chooses a football, educational toys and a keyboard over a set of dolls, defeating the demon. >>>

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• Paris Hilton, in particular, was incensed by the video, which mocks the socialite's sex-tape scandal. She released a statement accusing the singer of using her to launch a comeback.
• The video won the 2006 MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video.
• Pink performed this song at the 2006 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. >>>

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• Pink wrote this with Billy Mann, who first collaborated with her on the club single "God Is A DJ" from Try This, and co-wrote/produced most of the other tracks on the album. The Swedish songwriting team MachoPsycho (Nikey Olovson and Robin Lynch) also contributed to the songwriting and production of this tune.
• Pink is speaking out against women who hide their intelligence in order to gain approval from men. "These girls have dumbed themselves down to appear cute. How bad is that?" she told The Irish Times in 2006. "And the way it is now, I feel that it's just the one image of women out there which is being fed to society. There need to be more alternatives, options and examples about how you can be cool without the silly handbag and without acting like a bimbo. I can't get my head around this: it is lucrative to dumb yourself down. I cannot believe that the smarter version of the truth is not more interesting. I refuse to be stupid to get somewhere or get something."
• Pink, who struggles with a poor body image herself, is also frustrated by the pressure for women to stay thin, which often leads to dangerous eating disorders. In the lyrics, she references the "paparazzi girls" in their "teeny-weeny tees," and in the video, she portrays characters who are anorexic and bulimic. The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals praised the song and its video for tackling the topic, noting in a press release: "The song highlights the culture's relentless and unrealistic pursuit of thinness and unattainable drive for physical beauty."
  
  Pink told The Irish Times of the acknowledgment: "I think it was important that I got a letter from the eating disorders body congratulating me on what I said and what I showed. These diseases - and they are diseases - are very, very unhealthy. The video started off being humorous, but the point is there that you don't have to kill yourself to meet society's ideal for beauty."
• This earned Pink a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards (the prize went to Christina Aguilera for "Ain't No Other Man").
• This is the lead single from Pink's fourth studio album. Peaking at #13 on the Hot 100, it brought her back to the Top 20 for the first time since "Just Like A Pill" reached #8 in 2002.