I just love that song and I loved recording it. It was all about a vibe and not about perfection or being polished. “I recorded it in one take and we didn’t mix it. “I am proud of the songwriting, melody, and vocals on that song,” she says. President,” and “I’m Not Dead,” among others.
It’s nice.”Īlthough P!nk expanded her emotional and musical horizons on this new collection, the one song she is most proud of is “Crystal Ball,” an acoustic guitar ballad written with Billy Mann, who worked on such past hits as “Stupid Girls,” “Dear Mr. He pretty much just rolls his eyes, throws his hands up in the air, and hugs me. “Carey hadn’t heard the song before he did the video. I thought the split was amicable and now she’s talking shit about him?! What the fuck?’ It’s hypocritical.’ But once everyone saw the video and saw that Carey was in it, it shut everybody up, which was lovely,” explains P!nk, who collaborated with Martin once again for this track. “At first I was kind of irked because everyone was like, ‘Well, wait. On “So What,” P!nk gets real once again but this time it’s infused with her trademark humor as evidenced by such funny-honest lyrics as “I guess I just lost my husband/I don’t know where he went/So I’m gonna drink my money/I’m not gonna pay his rent.” Having her ex, Carey Hart, in the Dave Meyers-directed video diffused some of the reaction to the lyrical content. (She previously shared the top spot on the Hot 100 with Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, and Mya on 2001’s “Lady Marmalade” from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.) 1 on The Billboard Hot 100 on Septemmaking it the singer’s first No. P!nk also pulls no punches tackling the breakup issue on the first single, the infectious pop-rocker “So What,” which hit No. ‘Where did we lose the plot? How is it that you once were holding the door for me and now I’m slamming it in your face?’” Take your best shot.’ ‘Mean’ is a country-Aerosmith-rock song that asks, ‘How did we get so mean?’ Everything starts out so yummy. It’s like taking a deep breathe and saying, ‘Here I am. And, ‘I Don’t Believe You’ is one of my favorite songs because it’s just so naked. It’s like, ‘Okay, I’m an asshole, but love me anyway.’ I’m trying to be better. “‘Please Don’t Leave Me’ is also kind of funny though. “It’s like letting down the armor and admitting I’m human. (Both songs were co-written with Max Martin.) P!nk admits that it felt as “scary” as it felt “great” to reach new depths of vulnerability on such tracks as “Please Don’t Leave Me,” a painfully honest love song disguised by upbeat, cheerful, and happy instrumentation with sing-along “da da da da”s in the background, and “I Don’t Believe You,” the heart-wrenching ballad featuring P!nk’s raw vocals over simple piano and strings. There is a lot of that, but there is fun happening too and that’s why I named it Funhouse in the end.”
“Heartbreak is a Motherfucker is what I originally wanted to name the album,” laughs the singer. In two years I will probably have worked through all of my issues.”īut, for now, one issue that P!nk is still working through is heartbreak. Each record got a little deeper and more cathartic than the last.
I remember talking about the song ‘Family Portrait’ in interviews and just crying. M!ssundaztood (2001) was very personal and even more cathartic. “On my first record, Can’t Take Me Home (2000), I was pissed off at a guy and that was cathartic for me. “This is my most vulnerable album to date,” says P!nk, 29, who has no problem fessing up to the fact that the split from her husband, motocross star Carey Hart, earlier this year is the subject of some songs on Funhouse. 28 via LaFace/Zomba), P!nk gets even more personal, more exposed, and more revealing. But, with her fifth studio album, Funhouse (Oct. And, her 23 million in album sales, two Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, and eight top 10 hit singles are proof that the tattooed badass with the heart of a pussycat does what she does well. It’s what I do.” Indeed, it is what she does. As she casually confers, “I have no choice. P!nk has never been afraid to speak her mind, bare her soul, and share her deepest feelings in her songs.
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