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M!ssundaztood - P!nk |
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11.04.05 (1752 review reads) |
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Advantages: Some Great feel good tunes!
Disadvantages: A few weak tracks.
*** P!nk History ***
P!NK is a US singer who was born and brought up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Born on 8th September 1979 this will make Pink 25 going on 26 this year. Pink’s real name is Alicia Moore, but she prefers to be called Pink. The nickname Pink isn’t originally to do with her hair colour but actually comes from her cousins and uncles who used to call it her when she was younger as she used to get really embarrassed and go very Pink! Pink spells her nickname as P!NK rather then pink, I have no idea why, she probably just likes it that way!
Pink has been writing songs since a young age and is well known for her rebellious streak and in her earlier days her muscley image! Pinks songs are based on her real life and events that have actually happened, she was once asked by a magazine why she does this and she replied with something along the lines of, anyone can write a song without meaning or a “pop” song, but these songs have personal meaning to her which enables her to perform them to a higher standard! I would class Pinks music as somewhere between R ‘n’ B and Pop (but defiantly not cheesy pop!)
*** M!ssundaztood ***
Ok, so on with the album review. The Pink album I have chosen to review is titled M!ssundaztood! There she goes replacing the ‘I’ with a ‘!’ again! M!ssundaztood is Pinks second album to be released, her first was ‘Can’t Take Me Home’ and her third is ‘Try This’
On Missundaztood there are 14 tracks, and out of the 14 I would say there are only about 4 that I really don’t like. I will go through the tracks and explain my reasons why I do or don’t like the track and give you a little information about each song too.
Track One: Missundaztood: This song starts off with a really catchy beat, which continues in the background throughout the song. In this song the lyrics suggest Pink is trying to tell you that she’s not actually the person you might think she is and people often get the wrong impression about her and she’s not as complicated as people may think, she is simply Missundaztood!
“ I might be the way
Everybody likes to say,
I know whatcha thinking about me”
“When I’m happy I am sad
But everything’s good,
It’s not that complicated,
I’m just misundastood”
Track Two: Don’t Let Me Get Me: This song is a lively song, the drums and guitars in it sound really good and make this a great song to turn up really load and sing really out of tune to! (I do that with most songs anyway!) The song is about Pink being a hazard to herself and hating herself. In the song she sings about how she doesn’t like being compared to Britney Spears and she would like to have a day in the life of someone else.
“Everyday I fight a war against the mirror,
Can’t take the person staring back at me,
Cause I’m a hazard to myself,
Don’t let me get me,
I’m my own worst enemy,
It’s bad when you annoy yourself”
Track Three: Just Like A Pill: This song was released as a single. I would describe this song as quite laid back and cool, it’s not very lively, but then it’s not a slow song either! The lyrics of this song suggest Pink is singing about taking drugs/pills but she took too much and is singing about the effects they are having and how she wants to run and get away. There are some lyrics that suggest she may be referring to a person comparing the effects the person has on her to the effects a pill has on her.
“And I swear you’re just like a pill,
Instead of making me better,
You keep making me ill,
You keep making me ill.”
Track Four: Get The Party Started: This song was the first song off this album to be released as a single. I think this song is fantastic! It has a really good tune and is great for turning up really loud to chill out to! The video for it is also good! The lyrics to this song are as the title suggests about getting a party started! She is telling someone she is on her way so they better get the party started as she is ready to get her groove on!
“I’m coming up so you better get this party started,
I’m coming up so you better get this party started,
Get this party started on a Saturday night,
Everybody’s waiting for me to arrive,
Sending out the message to all of my friends,
We’ll be looking flashy in my Mercedes Benz”
Track Five: Respect (featuring Scratch): This is another really good song, it is completely different to all the other songs on the album. This is more of a rap song, Pink even describes the song as a rap song in the first few words of the song! The song is about how Pink thinks boys should show respect for girls and how they’re not going to get her for free!
“Hey ladies, yeah?
Let ‘em know it ain’t easy,
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Lets come together,
Hey sistas, yeah,
It’s time to be greedy,
Nothin’ good comes for free.”
Track Six: 18 Wheeler: This song is another quite laid back, but not slow song. In the song Pink is saying that she wont let someone treat her bad or take advantage of her and it makes no difference how hard they do try to hurt her, she will still come out better. I think this song is great I like to put it on after I’ve had a bad day or I’m feeling a bit down as this song will make me feel better about things and get on with things.
“You can push me out a window,
I’ll just get back up,
You can run over me with your 18 wheeler truck,
And I wont give a F***,
You can hang me like a slave,
I’ll go underground,
You can run over me with your 18 wheeler but,
You can’t keep me down.”
Track Seven: Family Portrait: This was released as a single. I like this song even though it is considerably slower than previous tracks. I like it because I think this song has feeling and meaning, and Pink sings this song in a way that sort of touches you! The song is about Pink growing up, her family breaking up and how she would just like them all to get back together and everything to go back to how it used to be.
“It aint easy growin up in WW3,
Never knowin’ what love could be,
You’ll see, I don’t want love to destroy me,
Like it has my family,
Can we work it out,
Can we be a family,
I promise I’ll be better,
Mommy I’ll do anything.”
Track Eight: Misery (featuring Steven Tyler): This is where the album goes downhill! This song IS miserable! It is slow and generally depressing! The song is about how Pink feels lonely with the blues and could do with a bit of company after she has been hurt by love.
“Oh misery… I sure could use some company,
Since he’s been gone I ain’t been the same,
I carry the weight like an old ball and chain,
Guess it’s all meant to be… for love to cause me misery”
Track Nine: Dear Diary: This song is another slow one, not quite as slow as misery, but still slow enough to class as boring! The song itself is about how much Pink wants to tell her secrets, but she knows that her diary is the only one who will keep them safe, but then she obviously decides to tell everyone as the song is about her secrets! It is worded as though she is talking to her diary and telling it all her secrets.
“Dear dear diary,
I wanna tell my secrets,
Cause you’re the only one,
That I know will keep them.
Dear dear diary,
I wanna tell my secrets,
I know that you’ll keep them,
So this is what I’ve done…”
Track Ten: Eventually: Another slow one! Another boring one! This song is about Pink being played and fooled around. The song goes into her feelings and how the person who has played her will get their comeuppance eventually.
“I drank your poison,
Cause you told me it’s wine,
Shame on you if you fooled me once,
Shame on me if you fooled me twice,
I didn’t know the price,
You’ll get yours eventually.”
Track Eleven: Lonely Girl (Featuring Linda Perry): By this point in the album you will have probably turned off or skipped back to the beginning, unless you are listening in hope of some more lively or a little bit more upbeat songs. If you are still listening then you will know that this song isn’t much of an improvement on the lat couple! It is ever so slightly livelier but nothing worth getting excited about. The song is about feeling lonely and all the feelings experienced with being lonely. The words to the song do have meaning just like the others, don’t get me wrong… I do think these are fantastic songs lyric wise, they are thought provoking but the downside to them is as I have mentioned many times they are slow and boring!
“All of my memories,
Good and bad that’s passed,
Didn’t even take the time to realise,
Staring at the cracks in the walls,
Cause I’m waiting for it all to come to an end,
Still I curl up right under the bed,
Cause it’s takin’ over my head,
All over again.”
Track Twelve: Numb: Woohoo a lively song! Well livelyish! I quite like this song, it’s not one of my favourites but I wouldn’t turn it off! The song is about Pinks feelings towards someone, how there are actually no feelings there anymore and how she this is making her feel very numb inside.
“ Like the coldest winter,
I am frozen from you,
I was weak before now you made me,
So numb I don’t feel much for you anymore,
I gave you my all my baby,
I’m numb, numb, numb.”
Track Thirteen: Gone To California: Back to the slower style songs again. The song is about how Pink wants to go far away from her hometown as her world is falling apart around her. Again I’m not keen on the tempo of this song, but the words are thought provoking and meaningful.
“Everybody’s dying,
Have you heard the news today?
A woman in North Philly is mourning,
The bullet took another son away,
I’m going to California,
I’m going far, far away.”
Track Fourteen: My Vietnam: Finally the last song on the album. I know that makes it sound like I don’t like the album, but I do really, it’s just the last few songs I don’t like. This Song is again slowish and boring unless you like thought provoking songs. The song is about Pink’s Vietnam and her battle though life. In the song there are hints towards her rebellious times as she was growing up.
“Never liked school that much,
They tried to teach me better,
But I just wasn’t hearing it,
Because I thought I was already clever.
Right then, that’s all the tracks on the album.
*** How Can You Recognise This Album? ***
The album comes in a regular CD case, you know the sort… plastic, opens up and has a nice shiny disc inside! The front of the case has a picture of Pink lying across the front with the wording ‘Pink’ and ‘Missundaztood’ above and beneath her picture. The back of the case has track listings on it along with another picture of Pink underneath them.
Inside the case is the CD. Mine was silver with a picture of Pink printed on it in pink! I think this is pretty much a standard design for the album. The inside sleeve pulls out and contains all the words to all the songs so you can have a good ole sing along! It also contains some pictures of Pink and the back page is full of Pinks thank-you's and messages to people who have helped her in her career and with the album.
*** My Opinion ***
My own opinion of this album is, it is a fantastic album with just a few tracks I personally am not too keen on, but even these tracks are a very high quality. You can tell from listening to Pink’s songs that she is a very talented young girl and she puts a lot of passion and effort into her music and all her songs are wrote from the heart. The words in all her songs are to me very thought provoking. The last few songs I don’t particularly like, as I am more of a pop type of gal! However I would recommend anyone to buy this album as overall there is something on here for everyone.
Thanks for reading!
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timmah10 - 07.03.06 Great review although i dont share the opinion of the album, although it doeant bother me like some |
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