This Year's Girl (song)  "This Year's Girl" is a song written by new wave musician Elvis Costello and performed by Costello and the Attractions for his 1978 album "This Year's Model". Inspired by the Rolling Stones song "Stupid Girl", the song's lyrics criticizing fashion saw controversy for alleged misogyny, which Costello forcefully rejected. Released as an album track, the song has since seen positive critical reception and has been included in compilation albums and in Costello's live setlists. The song has also been featured as the theme song to the second season of "The Deuce", featuring additional vocals by Natalie Bergman. "This Year's Girl" was written by Costello as an "answer song" to the 1966 Rolling Stones song, "Stupid Girl". He explained the relationship between the songs, "My lyrics might have been tough on the girl but it was full of regret and a little sympathy, while the Jagger/Richards song seemed to take delight in being heartless and cruel". Costello summarized the song as being "about an idea of glamour and attraction". The lyrics of "This Year's Girl" resulted in Costello being criticized for attacking women. Costello rebuked these accusations, saying. "Everything in the song is about the way men see women and what they desire from them. If there is a lie being told, then it is the one that a girl might be prepared to live or tell, in order to live up to some false ideal of attraction. That may contain disappointment and be critical, but it hardly constitutes hatred". Costello also compared it positively against "Stupid Girl", saying, "The Stones wrote 'Stupid Girl' and they're heroes. I wrote 'This Year's Girl', saying that fashion is a trap, a much more compassionate song, and everyone said I was a misogynist". During the intro of "This Year's Girl", Costello plays a Gretsch Country Club guitar that he had bought in San Francisco during the making of the album. The song features a stop-start drum beat from Pete Thomas which has been compared by critics to the drum track on the Beatles' 1965 song "Ticket to Ride". Costello added maracas and "Mersey vocal harmonies" to the track to mimic the 50s rock and roll influence of the song. "This Year's Girl" was released as the second track on Costello's 1978 sophomore album, "This Year's Model". It was not released as a single.