A Pretty Girl Is Like...
The Magnetic Fields * Track #19 On 69 Love Songs
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Album 69 Love Songs
- #1Absolutely Cuckoo
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- #2I Don’t Believe in the Sun
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- #3All My Little Words
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- #4A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
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- #5Reno Dakota
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- #6I Don’t Want to Get Over You
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- #7Come Back from San Francisco
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- #8The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
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- #9Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
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- #10The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
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- #11I Think I Need a New Heart
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- #12The Book of Love
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- #13Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
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- #14How Fucking Romantic
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- #15The One You Really Love
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- #16Punk Love
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- #17Parades Go By
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- #18Boa Constrictor
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- #19A Pretty Girl Is Like...
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- #20My Sentimental Melody
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- #21Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
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- #22Sweet-Lovin’ Man
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- #23The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
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- #24
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- #25Love is Like Jazz
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- #26When My Boy Walks Down the Street
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- #27Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
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- #28Very Funny
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- #29Grand Canyon
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- #30No One Will Ever Love You
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- #31If You Don’t Cry
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- #32You’re My Only Home
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- #33(Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
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- #34
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- #35Promises of Eternity
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- #36World Love
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- #37Washington, D.C.
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- #38Long-Forgotten Fairytale
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- #39Kiss Me Like You Mean It
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- #40Papa Was a Rodeo
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- #41Epitaph for My Heart
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- #42Asleep and Dreaming
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- #43The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
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- #44The Way You Say Good-Night
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- #45Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
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- #46I Shatter
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- #47
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- #48It’s a Crime
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- #49Busby Berkeley Dreams
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- #50I’m Sorry I Love You
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- #51Acoustic Guitar
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- #52The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
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- #53Love in the Shadows
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- #54Bitter Tears
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- #55Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget
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- #56Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
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- #57Experimental Music Love
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- #58Meaningless
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- #59Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
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- #60Queen of the Savages
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- #61Blue You
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- #62I Can’t Touch You Anymore
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- #63Two Kinds of People
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- #64How to Say Goodbye
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- #65The Night You Can’t Remember
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- #66For We Are the King of the Boudoir
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- #67Strange Eyes
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- #68Xylophone Track
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- #69Zebra
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A Pretty Girl Is Like... by The Magnetic Fields
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The Magnetic FieldsProduced by
Stephin MerrittWrited by
Stephin MerrittAbout
One of the more violent songs on the album, track 19 of volume one of 69 Love Songs is a simple ukelele ditty sung by Stephin Merritt. In it he sings about how what a pretty girl is in a very disturbing manner.
Illustration by Marie-Louise Plum
The song is a sardonic response to Irving Berlin’s “A...
A Pretty Girl Is Like... Lyrics
[Verse 1]
A pretty girl is like a minstrel show
It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, you go
It just isn't the same on radio
It's all about the makeup and the dancing
And the "Oh"!
[Verse 2]
A pretty girl is like a violent crime
If you do it wrong, you could do time
But if you do it right it is sublime
[Bridge]
I'm so in love with you, girl
It's like I'm on the moon
I can't really breathe, but I feel lighter
[Verse 3]
A melody is like a pretty girl
Who cares if it's the dumbest in the world?
It's all about the way that it unfurls
A pretty girl is like
A pretty girl
A Pretty Girl Is Like... Q&A
Who wrote A Pretty Girl Is Like...'s ?
A Pretty Girl Is Like... was written by Stephin Merritt.
Who produced A Pretty Girl Is Like...'s ?
A Pretty Girl Is Like... was produced by Stephin Merritt.
When did The Magnetic Fields release A Pretty Girl Is Like...?
The Magnetic Fields released A Pretty Girl Is Like... on Tue Sep 07 1999.
What did The Magnetic Fields say about "A Pretty Girl Is Like..."?
Stephin Merritt explains in the album interview booklet:
I think ‘a pretty girl is like a melody’ is rather an insulting thing to say, and this is a protest song against that. If you say a pretty girl is like a melody, then she’s like all sorts of things you wouldn’t want to hear: a pretty girl is...