...But the Little Girls Understand is the second studio album by power pop/new wave group the Knack, released by Capitol Records in February 1980.

Chapman also wrote a comedic description of the album in the liner notes, including the line "The songs are an assortment of feelings expressed redundantly as only the Knack can.

"[1] Band members Berton Averre and Doug Fieger wrote all of the songs except for "The Hard Way"[1] which was written by Ray Davies and recorded by the Kinks on their album Schoolboys in Disgrace (1975).

[14]Specifically addressing some of the songs on the album, Marsh wrote "In Fieger's lyrics, women are literally commodities whose chief purpose is to be brutalized.

Handleman,' the tame calypso that's the new LP's catchiest number, the protagonist is pimping for his wife–a situation the group views with dispassion, if not outright approbation.

[15] In a generally negative review, Robert Christgau stated that "little girls prefer catchy, punchy second-hand songs to varied, indecisive thirdhand ones.

"[1] Critic Steve "Spaz" Schnee of AllMusic has also stated that ...But the Little Girls Understand is "unfairly dismissed as an inferior rehash of the debut.