Pink - I'm Not Dead
|
List Price: Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.98 (26%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $7.18 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for I'm Not Dead
Free Music Review: My Favorite Shade of P!NK
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes, that's right. I'm a 30-something-year-old woman (cough cough...) who is coming out of the closet to admit that I adore P!NK! I first fell in love with her music for one simple reason--the girl can sing. In a music industry where pop stars are manufactured from every pretty girl who ever appeared in a Disney movie or hosted her own Nickelodeon show, P!NK is the genuine article--talented, smart, brash and bold enough to get in your face if she has something important to say. She acknowledges this paradox in Don't Let Me Get Me from MISSUNDAZTOOD: (Hey, I said she could sing, not spell!)
"L.A. told me
You'll be a pop star
All you have to change
Is everything you are
Tired of being compared
To damn Britney Spears
She's so pretty
That just ain't me."
She revisited the subject with Stupid Girls on her most recent CD I'M NOT DEAD. The song was accompanied by a hilarious video of P!NK mocking her less talented contemporaries by writhing all over the sudsy hood of a car a la national brain trust Paris Hilton.
MISSUNDAZTOOD is the only CD aside from the hallowed BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE MUSICAL that ever stayed in my car CD player for an entire year without me ever getting sick of it.
Part of P!NK's charm is her diversity. She sings pop laced with a sly wit and self-deprecating humor. She sings soul. She rocks like a latter-day Joan Jett on songs like Humble Neighborhood from TRY THIS and Numb from MISSUNDAZTOOD. And she can break your heart with songs like Family Portrait from MISSUNDAZSTOOD, which has to be the most honest account I've ever heard of what's it's like for a frightened child to wake up in the middle of the night to the sounds of breaking glass and her parents screaming at each other.
When we lost our 20-year-old nephew to an accidental drug overdose in August, there was very little that could give me comfort but P!NK'S song Who Knew (written for a dear friend of hers who died from an overdose three years ago) gave my anguish both a voice and a melody.
I've always been a sucker for smart, angry young women who have something genuine to say and refuse to take any crap off of anybody. (Alannis Morissette anyone?) They remind me of what it's like to be racing down the road at seventeen with the windows down and the stereo blasting. But P!NK is even more fun than Alannis because she knows when to wink at her own foibles and ours.
(DISCLAIMER: P!NK's CDs TRY THIS and I'M NOT DEAD contain some profanity. I buy the edited versions for myself and my niece but it's still not too hard to figure out what's missing. The good news is that she doesn't use profanity frequently or gratuitously. So if you like your swearing to have the delicious resonance and eloquence of a good Dennis Miller rant, then it may not bother you.)
(Originally published on the website of author Teresa Medeiros at www.teresamedeiros.com)
Free Music Review: Recommend seller
Hit: 5 Stars
Received product quickly. Transaction was fast and efficient with no hassle. Recommend seller to buyers. Would do business with again.Free Music Review: Not Just Floating
Hit: 5 Stars
At one time, the Pink force was lumped together with Britney, Jessica and the like, but since her debut in 2000, she has constantly impressed not only me, but the critics alike.
Doing a 180 in music styles with Mizundastood, and then bringing in Rancid to help her with my favorite release Try This - Pink has continued to amaze me with her voice, her attitude and her take on multiple genres of pop music.
With I'm Not Dead, the whole thing continues. Dropping most of the hard rock feel of Try This, she doesn't go into dance mode or even dance pop, instead she creates a hybrid of everything and most importantly doesn't lose one ounce of that Pink punk spunk.
With the lead off single "Stupid Girls" her attitude shines through the pop blend but the other songs combine both her need to express herself and to indulge in various music stylings. Bringing on the Indigo Girls for the mostly acoustic and severely scathing "Dear Mr. President", Pink and the girls force feed Bush some medicine ("What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away/ and what kind of father would hate his own daughter if she were gay/ I can just imagine what the First Lady has to say/ You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine...").
On the poppiest of the bunch "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" we are led into the all too familiar mode of wanting to be alone while wanting to be with your lover - "All I ask for is one f*cking hour." There's the tender ballads that Pink makes all her own as she even has a conversation with her 13 year old self. There's also fun little tracks where the brunt of
Pink's wrath is her own self worth and in sarcastic tones, Pink can celebrate money and fame then turn around and denounce - which may seem like a jumbled mess on paper, but when she pulls it off it says tons about her talent. The critics on this one are not wrong - this is one hell of an album and I can't recommend it enough.
Free Music Review: Awesome CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Awesome CD. She is very political but talented musically. That's what makes the CD so good.Free Music Review: Some great songs
Hit: 4 Stars
I like several songs in the CD (not all of them though). I would still recommend it to others.