Smart Girls

"Smart Girls"
Album track by Weezer
Album	Hurley
Released	September 14, 2010
Length	3:11
Label	Epitaph Records
Writer(s)	Rivers Cuomo, Tony Kanal, Jimmy Harry
Producer(s)	Rivers Cuomo, Shawn Everett
Status	Officially Released
Stream	Spotify
	Apple Music
Hurley track listing
"Hang On" (07) "Smart Girls" (08) "Brave New World" (09)

"Smart Girls" (formerly titled "Hot Girls") is the eighth track on Hurley.

Appearances

• Hurley (2010)
• Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years (2020)

Overview

'“Smart Girls” — the song was originally “Hot Girls,” about how frustrating it is to have all these amazingly hot girls tweeting at me and it just felt so frustrating because I’m not in that life stage anymore where I can do anything about it. So I wrote this song “Hot Girls.” It ultimately ended up feeling — I don’t know, too macho or something? So we just changed it to “Smart Girls” and every other lyric stayed the same, like a really cheesy song about girls. But just changing that one word makes it really different and interesting. - Rivers Cuomo, Spin, 2010

Songwriter Rivers Cuomo, for a period, used Twitter to compile random thoughts that would come to mind. One such thought, "Where did all these hot girls come from," was later utilized as a song lyric. "That was a tweet," Cuomo told Huck Magazine in a 2011 interview, "I didn't give any context for it, but I was talking about girls tweeting at me - where were they when I was single?" "Smart Girls" was co-written by Cuomo with musicians Tony Kanal (of No Doubt) and Jimmy Harry (who also contributed additional guitar work to the song).

The original "Hot Girls" demo was released as part of the digital compilation Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years in 2020.

Though "Smart Girls" was never released as a single and has never been performed live, it has been covered on multiple television programs. In 2019, the band The Roots performed a brief rendition on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to introduce guest Beanie Feldstein. The eighth episode of the second season of the TV series Evil features children singing the song.

Known recordings

about this table

Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	Hot Girls	Moshikashitara_  Hot Girls 2.0.mp3	2006—2010		3:36	Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years
Weezer	Smart Girls		2010	Zeitgeist Studios, Los Angeles, CA Red Bull Studios, Santa Monica, CA The Village, Los Angeles, CA Threshold Sound & Vision, Santa Monica, CA Hurley Studios, Costa Mesa, CA	3:11	Hurley

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo - Lead vocals, Guitar
• Brian Bell - Guitar, Synth, Backing vocals
• Scott Shriner - Bass, Backing vocals
• Patrick Wilson - Drums
• Jimmy Harry - Additional guitar

Lyrics

Where did all these smart girls come from?
I don't think that I could choose just one
Where did all these smart girls come from?
Someone tell me how to get me some

On the floor, in a car
On the seat at the bar
Wherever I go
That's where they are

Smart girls
Never get enough of those
Smart girls
Smart girls

I want to be a bad boy right now
Real me is dying to hang out
I know you know what I'm talking about
I've got a feeling you could show me how

On a bus, on the train
On a boat, on the plane
I'm falling in love
What was your name?

Smart girls
Never get enough of those
Smart girls
Sleeping in the buff

Yumi, Sherie, Alison, Mary
Which one do I want to marry?
They’re all smart girls
They’re all smart girls
Sheena, Lola, Fabiola,
Don’t you know you make me lose my mind?

Where did all these smart girls come from?
I don't think that I could choose just one
Where did all these smart girls come from?
Someone tell me how to get me some

Lisa, Brittany, Paula, Whitney
Which one do I want here with me?
They're all smart girls
They're all smart girls

Debbie, Donna, Tatiana
Don't you know you make me lose my mind?

See also

• List of Weezer songs
• List of Rivers Cuomo songs