This is one of my favorites from Pretty on the Inside, and, as the other posters have mentioned, it's most definitely a song about the power that being beautiful gives you; I think this song is written about the abuse of that power, as well as the way that people will perceive a 'pretty girl'.
The term "slutkiss girl" is a bit confusing to me, since it was essentially made up by Courtney, but I think it's a reference to a slutty girl (hence, "slut kiss" – a slutty kiss; a girl who is perceived as classless and a slut). The song comes across as a sort of anthem about a pretty girl being worshipped by society, and Courtney is asking the "slutkiss girls" if this girl is truly beautiful beneath her physicality ("Is she pretty on the inside?") and if they are going to feed her ego ("water her rack") and bow down to her by giving her what she wants ("promise her smack"), all whilst following her trail from afar (hence the question, "is she pretty from the back?").
The "smack" is also an obvious drug reference, as others have said.
As for the people who are saying that Courtney can't write, and that the song means nothing because it's just "bullshit"– go to hell. Seriously. Are you not able to accept the fact that not ALL songs are written in a straightforward manner and don't all necessarily tell a specific narrative? Poetry and songwriting (which I essentially consider poetry in its own way) can be extremely abstract; so, yes, if you read the lyrics word-for-word and put no thought into it, the song is probably going to appear like gibberish–BUT, there is stuff going on beneath that surface. It's not some meaningless banter, it's just Love's abstraction of the subject (power and beauty).
This is one of my favorites from Pretty on the Inside, and, as the other posters have mentioned, it's most definitely a song about the power that being beautiful gives you; I think this song is written about the abuse of that power, as well as the way that people will perceive a 'pretty girl'.
The term "slutkiss girl" is a bit confusing to me, since it was essentially made up by Courtney, but I think it's a reference to a slutty girl (hence, "slut kiss" – a slutty kiss; a girl who is perceived as classless and a slut). The song comes across as a sort of anthem about a pretty girl being worshipped by society, and Courtney is asking the "slutkiss girls" if this girl is truly beautiful beneath her physicality ("Is she pretty on the inside?") and if they are going to feed her ego ("water her rack") and bow down to her by giving her what she wants ("promise her smack"), all whilst following her trail from afar (hence the question, "is she pretty from the back?").
The "smack" is also an obvious drug reference, as others have said.
As for the people who are saying that Courtney can't write, and that the song means nothing because it's just "bullshit"– go to hell. Seriously. Are you not able to accept the fact that not ALL songs are written in a straightforward manner and don't all necessarily tell a specific narrative? Poetry and songwriting (which I essentially consider poetry in its own way) can be extremely abstract; so, yes, if you read the lyrics word-for-word and put no thought into it, the song is probably going to appear like gibberish–BUT, there is stuff going on beneath that surface. It's not some meaningless banter, it's just Love's abstraction of the subject (power and beauty).