P!nk – All I Know So Far: Setlist

[areyoureadytojump]

Finally something was certified from this album

RIAA.com:

P!NK
Title: WALK ME HOME
Certification Date: January 23, 2020
Label: RCA
Format: SINGLE
Gold, 1xP

[Lumi]

Good for her! "Walk Me Home" is a bop.

[embrina]

Love that for her! Walk Me Home is a bop. I wish Can We Pretend did better.

[Deleted]

It's been like 9 months into this era and this trifling hoe didn't release Hey Why as a single and therefore I am depressed
Easily was THE best song on the record, smh  :sip2:

[Lumi]

Hey Why is amazing... I completely forgot about that masterpiece.

This era didn't deserve to be short lived!

[Deleted]

I'm still mad she led this record with Walk Me Home

Like WMH is cute....but not lead single material
Hey Why screamed the right high energy and attitude for a lead single that could have been coupled with a high energy video

[Lumi]

It also probably could've had more success than Walk Me Home did.

The only thing I REALLY love about Walk Me Home is it's video. Cinematic masterpiece.

[PGriffin]

I just noticed that she didn’t get any Grammy nominations!! She is usually a shoe in for the pop categories.

I hope she gets inspired and changes her sound for the next record.

[Marooned@Midnight]

Feb 6, 2020 21:22:00 GMT -5 PGriffin said:

I just noticed that she didn’t get any Grammy nominations!! She is usually a shoe in for the pop categories.

I hope she gets inspired and changes her sound for the next record.

I consider myself a huge P!nk fan...but she didn’t deserve it for this record IMO. The woman is raw talent personified so I really hope she takes it constructively and delivers something more soon. I’m really not a tear down the work of others kind of person and I can only give my opinion, which should be, and I’m sure is, meaningless to her. But I think this was her worst album. It’s the only one I don’t go back and play. It seems to me like Beautiful Trauma was pretty much the same record, except that one was exceptional like the rest of her catalogue.

[Deleted]

Imo her last 3 albums all have some fantastic standouts but overall are rather subpar

Hurts 2B Human is probably the weakest for sure though

[kmbgs]

Agree, this album did nothing for me except Courage, which I live for.

HAVE I

[Deleted]

The beauty of options, because I beleive her last two are by far her best along with Miss. But I’m in the minority, I guess. A few of her albums didn’t age well, imo, while I believe these last two will. This album deserved much more, but I’m not surprised. I won’t beat a dead horse as to why...

[SHOOTER]

I appreciate that she committed to giving her fans a full album instead of just a bunch of standalone records like many of her peers. It’s not my favorite album but I still revisit quite a few of the songs.

[areyoureadytojump]

RIAA.com:

P!NK
Title: A MILLION DREAMS
Certification Date: March 23, 2020
Label: ATLANTIC RECORDS
Format: SINGLE
Gold

She's criminally under-certified by her own label.

[Mike]

[Juanca]

Generous queen!
Glad that she’s recovered

www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/celebrities/pink-coronavirus-donation/index.html

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

I'm glad that she's okay.

How P!nk's Can't Take Me Home Kicked Off A Career Of Triumphant Authenticity

www.mtv.com/news/3161786/pink-cant-take-me-home-20th-anniversary/

Her R&B debut mapped out a path she ended up pivoting away from
MTV News Staff
1d ago

By J'na Jefferson

Can’t Take Me Home, P!nk’s double-platinum debut album, introduced the world to the music phenom’s versatile singing chops and notable songwriting skills. The Pennsylvania-born then-20-year-old born Alecia Moore was billed as the tough-talking, partying antithesis of bubblegum pop princesses like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, and her rebellious personality resulted in the album’s unmistakable attitude. Spunky, effortless vocals set her apart from her contemporaries, too, which is especially evident by the Mariah Carey-esque ballad “Let Me Let You Know.” P!nk also worked with R&B-minded musicians such as Kandi Burruss, Robin Thicke, and Babyface in order to hone a sound in that vein.

The project — released April 4, 2000 — fit into the landscape of late-‘90s and early ‘00s R&B, eras where Destiny's Child, Brandy and Monica, and P!nk's then-labelmate Toni Braxton had scored major hits. The LP came equipped with the “not a girl, not yet a woman” content that drove early-aughts pop (“Don’t tell me you adore me, cause all you thinkin’ ‘bout is fuckin’ me,” she sings on the title track), as well as progressive lyrics regarding same-sex relationships (“Girl, boy, boy, girl, girl, girl, boy, boy / Whatever, you should do what you do,” she spits on “Do What You Do”). Can’t Take Me Home spawned the top 10 singles “Most Girls” and “There You Go,” which featured era-appropriate urban slang (“Sometimes it beez like that”) and references to “bling-bling” and Hennessy. The project as a whole appeared to be a breath of air in a world of cookie-cutter pop manufacturing.

But a year-and-some-change later, P!nk’s sophomore effort Missundaztood found her trading in record scratches for guitar licks, as she pivoted sharply to a heavy pop-rock sound. She worked with 4 Non Blondes’ Linda Perry for the project, who called their collaboration “honest.” The album was heralded as her artistic breakthrough, and laid the groundwork for much of her work since then. Songs like “Get the Party Started,” “Family Portrait,” “Just Like a Pill,” and “Don’t Let Me Get Me” (where she claims record executive L.A. Reid told her to change her entire image to become a success) hit the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

During Missundaztood’s rollout, Spin put her on the cover in May 2002 with the headline “Rock’s Nasty Girl,” and she noted in interviews that Can’t Take Me Home was “very much marketing.” She has not performed a single song from her debut album on the road since 2013’s The Truth About Love tour, where she sang a medley of “There You Go,” “Most Girls,” and “You Make Me Sick”; before then, the last time she performed something from Can’t Take Me Home was 2006. But as she's shown in the decades since, P!nk's shift was less a calculated marketing approach and more a way to let all of herself (and her influences) shine through.

Although she’s leaned towards pop-rock and adult contemporary stylings since her debut, P!nk’s artistic milieu is deeply rooted in hip-hop, soul, and R&B. She sang in an all-Black gospel choir and performed backup for Pennsylvania-based hip-hop group Schools of Thought as a teen. Plus, her R&B girl group, Choice, was discovered and signed to LaFace in 1995 (L.A. Reid urged P!nk to go solo, and the group disbanded in 1998). Yet she’s been open about her versatile upbringing, noting that she fronted a punk-rock group growing up and is a fan of artists like Janis Joplin and Billy Joel, who was the first musician she saw in concert. Around the time of her debut, though, P!nk did appear to play into — and somewhat delight in — confusion regarding her look and sound. During a 2000 interview, P!nk noted that there was a “bet” going on that her mother was lying about who her biological father was.

“[People] totally think I’m mixed!” she chuckles. “I’m like, whatever! Like, I’m a mutt. We all are. We all came from the same place: God… People need to realize you don’t have to be anything to be anything. It comes from your experiences, it comes from where you’ve been,” punctuating her point with “We’re all pink on the inside.” This didn’t stop outlets from pointing out that she is, in fact, a white woman performing R&B, which — while not unheard of, thanks to acts like Teena Marie, Bobby Caldwell, and Taylor Dayne years prior — was still somewhat surprising. Rolling Stone’s review on Can’t Take Me Home begins with “Pink is twenty-year-old Alecia Moore's hair dye of choice and, for that matter, her skin color.”

As a successful white occupant of a historically Black space, these indications and comments placed the singer in a precarious position. While all musicians should be given the creative license to do what they’d like, it’s important to recognize that white artists are granted the freedom to genre-hop with far more ease than their contemporaries of color. Yet, in P!nk’s situation, wasn’t she being pigeonholed to one specific genre? In 2014, P!nk’s Missundaztood collaborator Perry discussed helping her break out of her R&B comfort zone in order to be the fully-realized artist she knew she could become. “She completely abandoned what she was told she was supposed to be, and just became Alecia Moore,” she said.

P!nk said as much after Missundaztood gave her some of her biggest hits. “It wasn’t a choice with my marketing mind thinking, ‘Well, I’m going to totally switch directions,’” she said in a 2003 interview after the success of her sophomore album. “It was like, ‘I have to do this, guys… [if] I don’t get it out, I am going to self-destruct.”

During the early and mid-aughts, artists such as Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke, and the late Amy Winehouse impressed audiences with their hip-hop, R&B, and soul-inspired flair. And within today’s musical landscape, pop music is heavily influenced by urban stylings. However, there is certainly a trickiness that comes with white pop artists utilizing hip-hop-inspired energy for their music. Miley Cyrus’s pivot from the hip-hop flavored LP Bangerz to the country-pop album Younger Now was punctuated by chastising comments regarding hip-hop, and Post Malone — whose discography is heavily hip-hop influenced — has also come under fire for disrespectful thoughts about the genre.

While some artists (and their labels) actively try to push an image, it’s important to note that — although she joked around with the mixed-race conversations — P!nk never actually tried to prove she wasn’t who she said she was. She was more concerned about pointing out that she was a girl who could do it all. Ultimately, she was the one who defied her label by pivoting her sound in an effort to be true to herself, and that authenticity has been continually triumphant throughout her decades-long musical reign.

It’s not likely that P!nk will dive back into the R&B pool 20 years after her debut, but it’s important that she continues to point out that her initial splash was made in part to the genre that started everything for her. While her feet are firmly placed in the adult-contemporary realm and she’s built a reputation as quite the daring live performer, in the 20 years since her debut album, P!nk has recognized her R&B roots with gratitude and respect, which doesn’t always happen when white artists part ways with an urban genre. However, in her case, her experiences with traditionally Black music weren’t passing fancy — they were how she got here.

“I am an R&B singer, I also am a gospel singer. I’m a punk-rock singer. And a pop singer. And a soul singer. All of that is me,” she told Variety in 2019 ahead of her Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony. “I was a little girl that loved Debbie Gibson. Mary J. Blige was the first cassette I bought. I liked 2 Live Crew. I liked Green Day. I loved Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. I liked everything and I think my music reflects that... if you want to blur lines, make people uncomfortable and question what they believe in just by looking at you, then you’ve got to take risks — you’ve got to be bold and go all out.”

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It’s CRAZY how her voice sounds the EXACT same 20 years later. Wow.


Now:

http://instagram.com/p/B-YsdsDpe-a

Then:

[Ling-Ling]

Videos like that just prove why we need R&B Pink back. I know, I know, never gonna happen. But a b**ch can still wish.

[wwr]

well, at least the full choice album is making the rounds so... we might get good old r&b p!nk

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Apr 5, 2020 13:44:07 GMT -5 wwr said:

well, at least the full choice album is making the rounds so... we might get good old r&b p!nk

What!?!!!! That’s new to me. Thanks for the heads up. This is what happens when you ditched her fan board and all social media.

truepinkfan.com/some-news-about-choice-pnks-old-band/

[adamalterlago]

Apr 5, 2020 8:58:28 GMT -5 @silver16 said:

It’s CRAZY how her voice sounds the EXACT same 20 years later. Wow.


Now:

http://instagr.am/p/B-YsdsDpe-a

Then:

That thing about Pink - that other artists could learn - is that she tends to stay in her range and not continuously PUSH her voice into the danger zone. I think it’s time we can all call this woman an icon. And although I wish some of her new material took the chances her older material did, you can’t deny what an absolute talent she is from vocals to performance.

[PGriffin]

I appreciate Pink! I too wish that she would incorporate some RnB into her current music (or at least take some risks). Her last album felt uninspired and the few before it felt interchangeable. I think my favorite album is I’m Not Dead but her debut and Miss bring back so many memories of my teenage years (good and bad).

[schnetzka]

Wasn't it that she hated her first album because of the r&b route that her label made her go down?

[Au$tin]

My favorite album from her is probably still M!ssundaztood. It took the r&b roots and blended them seamlessly with the pop/rock route she would eventually not only go down but get stuck in a rut in. I would love for her to experiment a bit and incorporate modern r&b and hip-hop styles into her music again like. And Hurts 2B Human did show a little inkling that she may be looking into doing just that! The title track and Hey Why both dabble in modern urban sounds. Of course she also clearly wants to experiment more with country and I'm here for that as well since Love Me Anyway is gorgeous, though I do think her voice fits much better in the r&b/pop route than country.

I could absolutely see her nailing an album similar in vibes to Demi Lovato's Tell Me You Love Me (especially something like Cry Baby) or JoJo's Mad Love (especially something like High Heels).

[Caviar]

Her first album is my second favorite. I remember going to her website hearing “There You Go” on loop and wondered why they never showed her face. I’m like who is this black girl singing? I think I found out about her on Black Planet. Oh the memories. My favorite by far is “I’m Not Dead”.

[Zinc.]

Happy Anniversary

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

My all time fave albums from her are still "Can't Take Me Home" and "Missundaztood". I was really into her music during my middle school years, especially with songs like "Most Girls", "Get the Party Started", and "Don't Let Me Get Me".

I never actually thought she was black when she I had first started. The first time I saw her was on Nickelodeon's Snick House (yes, the days when Nick Cannon used to host it) and she had on her pink hair. From then on, I knew she was a pretty cool chick to rock with. Man, those days were fun!

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Cute little video MTV made and posted.

Side note: Those cornrow braids. And her makeup is such perfection on her.

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