This song plays over the climax of the film as Cady (Angourie Rice) competes in the math contest while a rock band in the background sings about the stupid things teenagers do for love, including pretend to be dumber than they are like Cady has done.
[CADY HERON]
When I was nine, I fell in love
This Peace Corps guy
I waited hours inside his tent with flowers
Which made him laugh
Which made me cry
By thirteen, I gave up trying
I decided I would be a mathematician
'Cause math is real
I memorized a lot of pi
Because addition and subtraction and division
Would never make me feel
So stupid with love
I didn't get it
I didn't get it, somehow
Smart with math but stupid with love
I didn't get it
I didn't get it
'Til now
So thank you, math, for being there
To bring me joy
And thank you, math
'Cause now you've brought me this cutе boy
He's like someonе from TV
He’s like that guy who gives out roses to those women
His clothes, his grooming
And he's a foot away from me
With swoopy hair and shiny eyes that I could swim in
He is live and in the room
And I'm
Stupid with love
I wanna get it
I wanna get it, but how?
Smart with math but stupid with love
I wanna get it
I didn't get it
'Til now
I'm astounded and nonplussed
I am filled with calcu-lust
Does this guy work out?
He must
All sweaty at the gym
Could that image be more hot?
Let me just enjoy that thought
School was rough but now it's not
'Cause now there's him
Stupid with love
I didn't get it
I didn't get it, somehow
Smart with math but stupid with love
I didn't get it
I didn't get it
'Til now
Stupid With Love was written by Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin.
Stupid With Love was produced by Hanan Rubinstein & Jack Grabow.
Angourie-rice-and-cast-of-mean-girls released Stupid With Love on Fri Jan 12 2024.