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Post by andreazz on Jul 25, 2012 4:10:56 GMT -5
The Truth About Love is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Pink scheduled for release on September 14, 2012 under RCA Records after the disbandment of Jive Records and LaFace Records (which closed later), the singer's previous record labels.
The first single "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" was released on July 2012 and has managed to peak at No.9 on the US Billboard Hot 100, as well as charting inside the top ten in other several countries.
On October 7, 2011, RCA Music Group announced that it would be disbanding Jive Records, along with Arista and J Records. With the shutdown, Pink and all other artists previously signed to the labels, would release any future material through RCA Records.[1][2] In 2011, Joe Riccitelli, an executive with the label, announced that Pink was preparing to enter the studio to begin work on her sixth studio album, to be released in September 2012. On February 29, 2012, Pink took to her Twitter account and confirmed that she is currently in the writing process for her new record.[3] On June 19, 2012, Pink announced via a video on Twitter that the first single from her upcoming album will be called "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" and that it would be released on July 9, 2012.[4][5] She added, "I think you're going to like it, because I really like it, and I like it enough for all of us."[6] However, the demo version of the song leaked on July 1, 2012, a week before its scheduled release.[7][6]
The next day, it was released via Pink's official page and her Youtube account.[6] On July 4, 2012, Pink announced that her sixth studio album will be titled The Truth About Love.[8][9] It has also been confirmed that UK musician, Lily Allen is featuring on a track on the album.
Tracklist
1. Are We All We Are 2. Blow Me (One Last Kiss) 3. Try 4. Just Give Me a Reason 5. True Love 6. How Come You’re Not Here 7. Slut Like You 8. The Truth About Love 9. Beam Me Up 10. Walk of Shame 11. Here Comes the Weekend 12. Where Did the Beat Go? 13. The Great Escape
Deluxe Version 14. “My Signature Move” 15. “Is This Thing On?” 16. “Run” 17. “Good Old Days” 18. “Chaos & Piss” 19. “Timebomb”
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Post by Matt on Jul 26, 2012 10:12:07 GMT -5
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Post by andreazz on Sept 13, 2012 16:25:57 GMT -5
Some of the new songs, lyrics videos
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Post by andreazz on Sept 13, 2012 16:31:09 GMT -5
Pink - Here Comes The Weekend ft. Eminem
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Post by andreazz on Sept 13, 2012 16:51:05 GMT -5
"It's very easy for me to tap into 'go f**k yourself'," Pink told Rolling Stone of her writing process. "Maybe that's the only way I feel powerful. "I'm in the best place I've ever been in my life, and I'd say it's 80% happiness and 20% sheer confusion and fear that I'll f**k it up somehow. I'm consumed by my emotions." Pink described 'Beam Me Up' as "my acoustic song that I do on every record". 'The Great Escape' addresses the use of antidepressants, while 'How Come You're Not Here" discusses a fling husband Carey Hart had when the couple briefly separated a few years back. Lyrics include: "I heard she's cute, but she stores nuts like a squirrel." Pink added: "My goal on this record was to incorporate a little more musicality. Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - what if I can't sing anymore? Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realise that it's okay to suck, and move forward. Then it clicks and I'm like, 'I'm f**king awesome!'" www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a397025/pink-new-album-the-truth-about-love-is-powerful.html
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Post by andreazz on Sept 13, 2012 17:08:03 GMT -5
Japanese bonus track
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Post by andreazz on Sept 14, 2012 11:20:52 GMT -5
More lyrics videos
It seems this can be her strongest album todate
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Post by andreazz on Sept 14, 2012 17:48:14 GMT -5
billboard.com Let's face it: 2012 hasn't been a great year for the pop album. Sure, it's been an excellent year for the pop single, but when the year's biggest sellers are 2011 releases from Adele and One Direction, pop fans have been chomping at the bit for an album that will set the tone for what radio might sound like for the next year or two.
Pink's "The Truth About Love" could very well be that album. Teaming her with first-time collaborators like Greg Kurstin, Jeff Bhasker and Semisonic's Dan Wilson, pairing her once again with heavy-hitters Max Martin, Shellback, Butch Walker and Billy Mann and featuring guest spots (rarities for a Pink album) from fun.'s Nate Ruess, Eminem and Lily Rose Cooper (a.k.a. Lily Allen), "The Truth About Love" is a peerlessly witty, endlessly melodic tour de force. The album has moments that will make Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Adam Lambert and countless others who've followed in Pink's footsteps calling their A&R guys immediately to recreate them.
There's also a wealth of material to choose from. Due Tuesday at retail and digital outlets, the album will come in at least two different deluxe editions - one at Target, with four exclusive bonus tracks, the other at iTunes with two of its own extra cuts. Which are the best cuts? Check out our track-by-track review of "The Truth About Love's" deluxe Target edition.
1. Are We All We Are - An anthemic call-to-arms penned with Butch Walker, John Hill and Lana Del Rey producer Emile Haynie, "Are We All We Are" has a self-empowerment message that picks up where 2010 mega-hit "Raise Your Glass" left off. "We are the people that you'll never get the best of / Not forget the rest of / Just sing it loud until the kids will sing it right back," she sings.
2. Blow Me (One Last Kiss) Already a top 10 Hot 100 hit, the cheekily titled "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" is perhaps most representative of the album's overall spirit - state-of-the art production (courtesy of Greg Kurstin), playful, occasionally foul-mouthed lyrics and a narrative that finds the singer contemplating the end of her tumultuous 10-year relationship with motocross star Carey Hart ("I think I finally had enough / I think I maybe think too much") - complete with a mid-chorus key change that Pink has already cursed Kurstin over in her thank-you notes.
3. Try - Prepped as the album's second single, "Try" (another Kurstin production) is a handclap-heavy ode to taking risks with love, no matter the consequences. "Where there is desire there is gonna be a flame / Where there is a flame someone's bound to be get burned / But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die / You gotta get up and try," she sings on the chorus. With a melody reminiscent of "Whataya Want From Me," the 2009 hit she penned for Adam Lambert, the single already pairs well sonically with Pink's catalog.
4. Just Give Me A Reason feat. Nate Ruess - Fun. fans, take note - this duet with the band's lead singer Nate Ruess (produced by "We Are Young" helmer Jeff Bhasker) would fit right at home on "Some Nights." Although it's a little jarring to hear Pink's raw, live vocals paired with Ruess' Auto-Tune, it's ultimately a less-schmaltzy version of those male/female duets found at the end credits of every 80s movie.
5. True Love feat. Lily Rose Cooper - Perhaps the album's brightest moment, Pink defines "True Love" the best way she knows it. "You're an asshole but I love you / And you make me so mad I ask myself / Why I'm still here or where could I go." With a giant chorus and a welcome cameo from Lily Rose Cooper (reuniting with Kurstin, the producer of 2009's "It's Not Me It's You"), "True Love" deserves to be one of Pink's signature songs.
6. How Come You're Not Here - A bluesy, glam-rock stomper with expert production from multi-instrumentalist Kurstin, "How Come You're Not Here" features one of Pink's most distinct vocal performances to date - the fact that its chorus begs for fist-pumps and stadium stomping doesn't hurt, either.
7. Slut Like You - What do you get when you cross a riff and a "Woohoo" reminiscent of Blur's "Song 2," a couple "Scarface" references ("you'll be my little friend") and a monster Max Martin melody? One of the funniest post-feminist approaches to the sociological question, "If a guy can be a player, why can't a girl?"
8. The Truth About Love - Much like "True Love," the album's title track finds Pink contemplating the secret - or lack thereof - to a long-lasting bond. "The truth about love / is it's blood and it's guts / Purebreds and mutts, sandwiches without the crust," she sings in one of many great couplets.
9. Beam Me Up - A heartfelt acoustic ballad about taking a break from reality ("Beam me up / Let me be lighter / I'm tired of bein' a fighter / I think a minute's enough"), "Beam Me Up" recalls some of the quietest moments that also made "Funhouse" such an emotionally compelling album. An ace collaboration with Billy Mann.
10. Walk Of Shame - If you thought "Slut Like You" and "Blow Me" were fun, get ready for "Walk of Shame," which is about exactly what you think it is. To reveal any of its lyrics would deny the listener of the song's many surprising charms.
11. Here Comes The Weekend feat. Eminem A reunion with both Eminem and producer DJ Khalil following 2010's "Won't Back Down," the song is also a sequel of sorts to "Get This Party Started" but without a hook or chorus quite as memorable. One of the album's weaker tracks, "Here Comes The Weekend" at least features a few random P. Diddy disses from Eminem's welcome guest rap.
12. Where Did The Beat Go? - An apt title for this midtempo track, Pink questions what happened to the pace of a once hot-and-heavy relationship. With military drums and multi-layered use of Pink's vocals, "Where Did The Beat Go?" also features some of the album's best lyrics.
13. The Great Escape - Ending the main album track list on a somber but hopeful note, "The Great Escape" is addressed to both a friend of Pink's who contemplated suicide and to anyone going through a rough patch. A collaboration with Dan Wilson (who co-wrote Adele's "Someone Like You"), "The Great Escape" is a showcase for some of Pink's most personal lyrics to date on the bridge alone - "I wrote the book on running / But that chapter in my life / Will soon be done oh / I'm the kind of the great escpae / you're not gonna watch me checkin' out of this place / You're not gonna lose me."
14. My Signature Move (Target exclusive) - Instantly dispelling the myth that bonus tracks are just leftovers, "My Signature Move" (the first of three bonus cuts co-penned with Butch Walker) has one of the best choruses Pink has written in years, and is worth the extra cash on its own.
15. Is This Thing On? (Target exclusive) - With a hushed but rhythmic intro that brings to mind 2006's "Who Knew," "Is This Thing On?" eventually builds to a danceable climax - the closest she lets herself get to a four-on-the-floor moment.
16. Run (Target exclusive) - A power ballad that would fit right at home on an 80s movie soundtrack, "Run" is another chance for Pink to bare her soul at the listener's expense. "I've got scars you won't believe / wear them proudly on my sleeve / I hope you have the sense to know / that sadness comes and sadness goes," she sings.
17. Good Old Days (Target exclusive) - Imagine Janis Joplin covering Colbie Caillat, and you can almost imagine the uniquely sunny yet hard-edged vibe Pink manages to capture on this track she co-penned with Billy Mann and David Schuler. A refreshing, live-in-the-moment message to end the album.
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Post by andreazz on Sept 14, 2012 17:49:21 GMT -5
aol radio Pop superstar, Pink (stylized as P!nk), is set to release her sixth studio album, 'The Truth About Love,' next week. With all five of her previous albums reaching platinum status, needless to say, big things are expected from Pink with her new release. This will be Pink's first studio album on RCA, and her first studio album since 2008 ('Funhouse'). With the success of her new single, 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss),' Pink hasn't strayed from the path of success. With 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' reaching number nine on the Billboard charts, Pink now ranks third on the list of women with Top 10 singles since 2000 (behind Rihanna and Beyoncé) with 12 (three of which reached number one). Her punk persona mixed with her incredible pop voice has always given Pink her own unique spin on her music. 'The Truth About Love' is no exception to the norm that we expect from Pink. The balance between her slower pop songs versus her fast-paced/in-your-face punk-pop songs creates an album for all kinds of fans. 'The Truth About Love' (just like being in love) is like being on a rollercoaster. Constantly going up and down on the album shows all the sides of Pink. Songs like 'Try,' 'Beam Me Up,' and 'Just Give Me A Reason' have the softer side of Pink. 'Just Give Me A Reason' is a duet with fun. vocalist, Nate Ruess, and sets up the build-up into 'True Love' and 'How Come You're Not Here' which have much more attitude and bring the energy back to the album. Pink brings the punk attitude still with 'Slut Like You' and later in the album with 'Here Comes The Weekend' which really highlights Pink's hip-hop style due to the featuring of Detroit rapper, Eminem. Overall, Pink's unique style and voice shines through once again. 'The Truth About Love' plays right along with the success of her previous albums. With her last five studio albums and her Greatest Hits album all receiving platinum status in sales, 'The Truth About Love' has a lot to live up to. Based on the success of 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' and the hype around her upcoming second single, 'Try,' the anticipation and desire from Pink's die-hard fans, predicting another platinum album wouldn't be considered to be too far off the trail. A- www.newsday.comPink and motocross racer husband Carey Hart pretty much defined the Facebook relationship status "It's complicated" with their public breakups and makeups over the years. Sure, marriage troubles aren't all that unusual, though, putting one another on blast in public, in anthems like "So What," still is. So when Pink promises "The Truth About Love" (RCA), people expect a lot. Luckily, her sixth studio album more than delivers. Pink reveals her "Truth," using practically every pop music style available. The lead single "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" uses the bouncy, yet edgy dance-pop that worked so well for her on "Raise Your Glass." She reveals a lot of relationship angst when she teams up with fun.'s Nate Ruess on the gorgeous ballad-with-a-backbeat "Just Give Me a Reason." She rocks out with Eminem on the stomping, guitar-driven "Here Comes the Weekend." And she raps herself on the hard-hitting, gender-equality anthem "Slut Like You." However, Pink may actually be at her best when she showcases her softer side. The title track is a throwback thrill, combining a churning rock riff with '60s girl-group harmonies and dance-party organ. The acoustic ballad "Beam Me Up" serves as a powerful reminder that she has a stunning voice that is as evocative as nearly any singer-songwriter's. "The Truth About Love" shows that Pink could probably knock off almost any other singer on their home turf, so to keep things interesting -- for her and her fans -- she chooses to compete in every genre and do it exceedingly well. 4 of 5 www.mirror.co.ukIn the past we've always been able to rely on P!nk for that heartfelt angst filled dynamite pop song. She says it how it is, slates who she likes, toys with her hubby's emotions through her lyrics and does all of this whilst looking like she could kick your backside at the same time. So it's perfectly understandable when she fell pregnant last year a tremor of fear went off in fan's minds. Would she be able to return to form with new music following her Greatest Hits package of 2010? The simple answer is yes. Having seen her perform live on more occasions than I can remember, I know she's the one artist you can rely on for longevity. So what if she's had a baby and she's been taking a few months out. It's not going to suddenly enable her to skip around Rodeo Drive in a tutu buying £2,000 handbags for her chihuahua to bed down in. P!nk's voice is raw, the lyrics are to the point (hardcore occasionally) and she's always been unique – it's her way or the highway. And how rare is that these days? She's never caved in and performed on Idol or X Factor or been sucked into the Cowell machine – the thought would make her gag. And having seen her live over the years she's only getting stronger as a live performer. Last time she hit the road she was swinging upside down like an orangutan and performing stunts only trained Cirque Du Soliel professionals would even dare...and still singing LIVE. OK, you get it. I couldn't possibly blow anymore smoke up her backside. She's ace. But is the new eagerly awaited album The Truth About Love actually any good? In a word, yes. Some will say there are a few too many 'Dear Mr President' style acapella ballads featured on it but overall it's a winner. Beam Me Up is a cute lullaby you can imagine the crowd singing along too and The Great Escape is a masterpiece. I'm assuming it's a dark ode to friends that have fallen in the trappings of substance abuse during the stars life. “I won't let you make the great escape, I'm never gonna watch you check-in outta this place,” she sings. Lead track Blow Me (One Last Kiss) sees her team up with Lily Cooper's main producer Greg Kurstin and the results are obviously huge – it's already breaking records for pre-release. But it's not all great – Here Comes The Weekend and Slut Like You feel a little contrived and desperate to be rock and roll, naughty and trendy. Are We All We Are pushes the envelopes and fans will love the darkness and audience participation opportunities for a live performance. The stand out track and an obvious international radio hit is Try. Think how big and fabulous Who Knew was – try is on the same wavelength. For an artist that is dealing with changing 'diapers', motherhood and a new emotional journey she's proved she can still deliver. But then – we never doubted her. P!nk has lost none of her magic. 00.15 2012-09-15
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Post by andreazz on Sept 14, 2012 17:50:39 GMT -5
guardian.co.uk, 4 of 5 Pink is easily the most idiosyncratic of the current cohort of high-gloss American pop singers – the only one bold enough to write songs that give free rein to her ugly, brattish side. When she's "had a shit day", or wakes up hating her husband, or is simply enraged that women who want uncommitted sex are considered "sluts", she funnels her thoughts into some of the most pungent songs in pop. That in itself would make her seventh album pretty wonderful, but she also has the nous to convert raw emotion into pop-punk earworms. True Love, for instance, mixes electronic crunch and snap with the jaunty chorus "You're an asshole, but I love you", and tops things off with a contrastingly misty verse from Lily Allen. She lets off steam with wrathful expletives ("No more sick whiskey dick", and so on) on Blow Me (One Last Kiss), a mid-tempo number that grows into an irresistible, hobnailed kiss-off. It's just a shame she gave album space to Mariah-slick motivational ballads such as The Great Escape, which detract from an otherwise fierce record
A ew.com Pink may be the best lyricist in pop music. And that's not just because she's willing to be as tough on herself as she is on the clueless authority figures, one-night stands, and wrongheaded husbands who inhabit her songs. Instead of playacting the expected pop archetypes — brat, vixen, victim — she presents herself as, well, herself: a knockabout girl who has done some living, not a precocious cipher playing a well-rehearsed role.
The storytelling on The Truth About Love, Pink's sixth album and first full-length since 2008's Funhouse, is unfalteringly vibrant, loaded with righteous anger, irreverence, and a clear eye for the darker side. Whether she's skewering tipsy-tart tropes on the punchy ''Walk of Shame'' and ''Slut Like You'' or laying bare her well-documented up-and-down relationship with husband Carey Hart on ''True Love'' (''At the same time I wanna hug you/I wanna wrap my hands around your neck''), her experiences never feel less than utterly real.
Of course, all that bloodletting wouldn't resonate nearly as much without radio-gripping hooks. And Pink brings them, even as she freely lets her skate-punk plasma bleed through the pop chiffon on guitar-filled crunchfests like ''Are We All We Are'' and ''How Come You're Not Here'' or initiates a club-pumping throwdown with Eminem (''Here Comes the Weekend''). Truth may switch up its stylistic forms, but Pink's uniquely torqued confessionals permeate every song; it's honesty you can dance to. A Best Tracks: A biting, raucous rave-up Slut Like You An achingly lovely lighter-waver Beam Me Up
digitalspy.co.uk 4 of 5 You only have to read the title of Pink's latest single 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' to realise that marriage and motherhood hasn't softened her. It's a good job too, given that her in-yer-face innuendo, horizontal attitude and brash charm has so far given her five hugely successful albums and an impressive singles catalogue that includes 16 top ten hits.
There's certainly no shortage of any of the above in 'Blow Me', which sees her throwing in the towel on a relationship in a typically inelegant fashion as she blasts: "You think I'm just too serious/ I think you're full of s**t." That it's told over a stampede of bass drums, snappy guitars and bonkers, hawkish sirens puts to bed any notion that she's lost her sense of humour or the ability to laugh at herself.
As such, it's largely business as usual for the bulk of The Truth About Love. Future single 'Try' is a ballad of the stadium-filling, lighter-waving variety, 'True Love' - a duet with semi-retired Lily Allen - finds her in the common predicament of being in a love-hate relationship, while husband-hating 'The Truth About Love' is a ballsy confessional that sees the singer attempt to make sense of it all, angrily concluding: "The truth about love is it's all a lie."
On paper it sounds like box ticking, but sharp lyrics - largely from the woman herself and long-time collaborator Greg Kurstin - intriguing collaborations with fun.'s Nate Reuss and Eminem, and her ability to flit from brattish tongue-in-cheek on 'Slut Like You' to the achingly sad on 'Beam Me Up' is enough to keep things fresh. There's fat that could have been trimmed towards the finish, but the result nonetheless is a fierce and thoroughly entertaining record from a woman who proves that growing up doesn't get any easier.
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Post by andreazz on Sept 16, 2012 7:16:50 GMT -5
3 bonus song, itunes version
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Post by andreazz on Sept 20, 2012 12:39:13 GMT -5
A few new songs LIVE
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Post by andreazz on Sept 30, 2012 7:10:20 GMT -5
After debuting more than 12 years ago on the Billboard 200 chart, pop superstar P!nk gets her first No. 1 album this week as "The Truth About Love" debuts with 280,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
That's the best debut sales week for the singer, whose previous highest start came when "M!ssundaztood" launched with 220,000 at No. 6 in 2001. Also, "The Truth About Love's" opening is the third-biggest debut this year, following Justin Bieber's bow with "Believe" (374,000) and Madonna's "MDNA" (359,000).
P!nk's new album performed stronger than anticipated, as some industry sources last week were initially thinking that it would sell around 220,000 to 230,000. However, the set kept on blowing past expectations on a daily basis, and by the weekend, was on its way to passing up 250,000.
The album was supported by a major promotional campaign by Target, which offered an exclusive version of the set and created a TV commercial starring P!nk. Last week, P!nk performed on NBC's "Today" show, while the album itself was sale priced at Amazon MP3 for $5. Earlier in the month she took the stage on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and the MTV Video Music Awards.
"The Truth About Love" becomes P!nk's sixth top 10 set, following "M!ssundaztood" (No. 6), "Try This" (No. 9), "I'm Not Dead" (No. 6), "Funhouse" (No. 2) and "Greatest Hits . . . So Far!!!" (No. 5). Her 2000 debut album "Can't Take Me Home" topped out at No. 26.
Her new album hits No. 1 the same week she claims her eighth leader on the Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Mainstream Top 40 on billboard.biz) with the single "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)." It's her third No. 1 in a row on the airplay chart, following "Raise Your Glass" in 2010 and "F**kin' Perfect" in 2011. Among all acts in the 20-year history of the Pop Songs chart, only Rihanna and Katy Perry have had more No. 1s -- they each have nine.
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Post by andreazz on Oct 10, 2012 13:14:32 GMT -5
New video, TRY
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