"Rich Girl" is a pop-ragga song performed by singer Gwen Stefani featuring Eve. The song was primarily written by Dr. Dre, Eve, and Stefani, with other collaborators for Stefani's debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby (2004). "Rich Girl" is based on the Louchie Lou and Michie One song of the same name, which is an adaptation of the Fiddler on the Roof song "If I Were a Rich Man". In the song, Stefani discusses her dreams of fame and riches from the perspective of "when she was just an Orange County girl". Wener, Ben. 1663622.php" target="_blank">"Pop Life: A critic gets locked out". _The Orange County Register. April 20, 2007. Retrieved May 2, 2007.
The last song to be included on the album, "Rich Girl" was released as the album's second single in late 2004 (see 2004 in music) to mixed reviews from music critics. It was a commercial success, reaching the top ten on the majority of the charts it entered, and topped the singles chart in Argentina. In the United States, "Rich Girl" was certified double platinum, and it received a nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 48th Grammy Awards.
"Rich Girl" is a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates. On March 26th, 1977, it became their first (of six) number one singles on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The single originally appeared on the 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us.
The song's lyrics are about a spoiled girl who can rely on her parents' money to do whatever she wants. The song was rumored to be about the then-scandalous newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In fact, the title character in the song is based on a spoiled heir to a fast-food chain who was an ex-boyfriend of Daryl Hall's girlfriend, Sara Allen. "But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl," Hall told Rolling Stone.
Several years later, Hall read an interview with David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, in which Berkowitz claimed that "Rich Girl" had motivated him to murder (though interestingly, the song was not released until after the Son of Sam murders had already begun, casting doubts on that suggestion). Hall & Oates later reflected this disturbing fact in the lyrics of the song "Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear Voices)" on the album Voices.
"Rich Girl" was covered by Nina Simone on her 1978 LP Baltimore.
