P!nk

Type – Album Review

Artist – P!nk

Title – The Truth About Love

P!nk’s major-label solo debut landed way back in 2000, and her sixth studio album, “The Truth About Love,” was released last week. This means the 33-year-old singer has been releasing music for 12 years – which is an eternity in pop music, unless your name is Madonna or Michael Jackson. The reason P!nk has been able to achieve such longevity is that she never allows the public to get sick of her, she does this by taking years-long breaks form the industry.

Amazingly whenever P!nk feels like jumping on the scene again, she finds a
audience for her music, this is mainly due to the fact she comes up with at least one defiant, anthemic song that really speaks to us.

Even though she doesn’t actually call him out by name it’s hard to listen to P!nk’s new album without taking her year-long separation from husband Carey Hart into consideration. In the title track she unfurls each syllable slowly as if drawn from a coy smile. Backup singers chime in at the chorus. As background music, it sounds like a perfect beach jam.

Turns out, though that the sweeter P!nk sounds the more cynical she becomes. “The truth about love is, its all a lie/ I thought you were the one and I hate goodbyes,” she sings at the chorus’ end. P!nk once confessed, “L.A told me, you’ll be a pop star / All you have to change is all you  are.” She was referring to the L.A Reid-approved, slick R&B treatment of her 2000 debut ‘Can’t Take Me Home’, which seems tailor-made for Destiny’s Child in hindsight.

"Here Comes the Weekend" takes fans back to P!nk's early days, to the days of "Get the Party Started." There is no profound message, no anthem for wayward misfits. It is a pure and simple party rocker. The tune comes to a head with an unmistakable Slim Shady-style rap from Eminem, who assisted in writing the track. His influence is also apparent in the steady and heavy bass beat that runs throughout the track. "Here Comes the Weekend" is easily a track that could become prominent in dance clubs and house parties as the album gets a few more spins behind it.

All of us here at Life is Music TV absolutely love this new P!nk album and we recommend that if you haven’t got it yet you should go out and get it you most definitely won’t be disappointed.

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