P!nk 'I'm Not Dead' album

On April 4, 2006, the multiple Grammy winning, multi-platinum selling LaFace recording artist known as Pink will unleash her 4th album, I’m Not Dead, and it is everything it should be: a stylistic evolution; a stunning display of her craft as a vocalist and songwriter and a very personal scrap book of everywhere she’s been and everywhere she’s going. This is Pink in top form, as brutally honest and as soulfully vocal as only she can be. This album brims with Pink’s signature funk, but I’m Not Dead, reveals her rock and roll side more than ever. It’s undeniable proof that Pink can belt the blues as well as she rocks the dance floor.

It’s going to be a huge year for Pink. The first video off the album, for the song “Stupid Girls”, was shot by acclaimed director Dave Meyers. The clip shreds everything Pink hates about superficial pop culture and how it affects young girls’ self-image. It is a challenge to women everywhere to seek better role models than the “porno paparazzi girls” with their “itsy bitsy doggies and their teenie weenie tees,” that our culture celebrates on TV and in magazines. The video satirizes the cult of exercise-obsessed, calorie fearing, breast-augmented human Barbie dolls everywhere.

MTV’s Overdrive, the broadband network, will exclusively premiere the full length video for Pink’s “Stupid Girl” on Thursday, January 26 after MTV’s TRL teases fans with a 30 second clip. The video for “Stupid Girls” will be available on demand on MTV Overdrive exclusively for 24 hours. Pink is also scheduled to appear on MTV’s TRL on Monday, January 30.

I’m Not Dead is also Pink’s most confessional work to date. Whether discussing heartbreak, childhood, doomed romance, fake friends or the cult of celebrity, Pink states her mind with open-eyed candor - and two tons of attitude.

Pink Executive Produced the album, Produced and wrote on every song, and was joined by a host of talented collaborators. Producer/Songwriter Billy Mann, Max Martin and Luke Gottwald lent their skills to several tracks, as did singer/songwriter Butch Walker, hit maker Mike Elizondo and the iconic duo The Indigo Girls. The resulting album has it all: rock and roll, soul and funk, and 100 percent Pink.

Pink has a lot to celebrate. She recently married her longtime boyfriend, motocross legend Carey Hart in a small, secluded ceremony in Costa Rica, and she’s about to release an album that is something to be proud of – its Pink pushing the envelope, yet again. “I’m Not Dead,” indeed. World, you’ve been warned: the infamous Alecia Moore is back again and this time she’s better than ever.

Song by Song

1)U + UR Hand: Produced and co-written with Max Martin, this upbeat rocker is a swaggering dis to rude club crawling dudes. Pink channels her inner Joan Jett here, the perfect compliment to a crunching hard rock hook and rave up chorus.

2)Stupid Girls: This reggae-flavored romp packs a rhythm as funky as its message is bold. Pink is speaking her mind, and freeing her body – and urging women and girls everywhere to do the same.

3)Who Knew: This Max Martin collaboration marries a pulsing bass line, and a pensive synth to a remembrance of a past love long gone. The sparsely arranged verse is the perfect contrast to the emotive crescendo of the chorus. Jangling guitars and strings accentuate the heartache.

4) Long Way To Happy: Pink and Butch Walker came up with a locomotive dirge that perfectly captures the song’s tale of innocence lost and wounds that just won’t heal. From the simple twinkling piano line that opens the song to the rocking explosion that marks the chorus, the track is a powerhouse.

5)Nobody Knows: Penned by Billy Mann, this song is an introspective meditation. It’s Pink at her most vulnerable, admitting that nobody would believe that strong, willful girls also cries themselves to sleep. The track is a classic – a soulful rock ballad on par with legends like Aerosmith and Elton John.

6)Dear Mr. President: This Billy Mann collaboration features the Indigo Girls and it draws the best out of both artists. On this track, as on so many others on this album, Pink demonstrates the versatility of her voice. Singing softly and harmonizing beautifully with Amy Ray and Emily Sailers, Pink’s open letter to the President pulls no punches, as she asks him “what kind of father would take his own daughters’ rights away?” Poverty, gay rights, the plight of the poor and the homeless – Pink asks all of the right questions. The song is exactly what folk music should be: earnest, challenging, aware and melodic.

7)I’m Not Dead: This blazing power ballad recalls the best of the 80’s. It’s an affirmation and an ode to metamorphosis – a pledge to the future and a nod to the past.

8)Cuz I Can: This Max Martin production is a stomping electro clash challenge to anyone testing Pink’s mettle. Her soulful strut here is as unstoppable as the opening line: “P.I.N.K….P.I.M.P.”Uh-huh, that’s right.

9)Runaway: A powerful mid-tempo ballad that captures the isolation at the core of the song, a tale of someone who is running away from others – and themselves.

10)Leave Me Alone, I’m Lonely: Pink and Butch Walker wrote this modern dance rock anthem that highlights yet another side of Pink’s vocal dexterity. The track tackles the “careful what you wish for” scenario of a too-available lover, and how too much of the sweetest fruit will make anyone sick.

11)The One That Got Away: Pink as she’s never been heard before. The song’s intimate acoustic guitar line evokes vintage Neil Young – the perfect backdrop for Pink to sing the blues. Janis Joplin would be proud.

12) I Got Money Now: Written with Dr. Dre’s track maker Mike Elizondo, this smooth, edgy, R&B confessional is Pink taking stock of her life now that she’s a success. It’s what Pink does best – truth and attitude. As she paints a picture of a life of travel and fake friends, she echoes what most people believe to be true: that despite what she’s saying, she must be happy because she’s got money now.

13)Confessions With My 13 Year Old Self: Pink’s open letter to a teenaged Alecia Moore, one who never thought she’d ever be where she is now; a complicated fighter who she’d like to ask not to grow up too fast.

14)I Have Seen the Rain: This hidden track is a duet between Pink and her father, James T. Moore. As she explains before the song, her father wrote it while serving in Vietnam. As a child, Pink used to accompany her father to Veterans’ centers and sing it with him – it was the first song she ever learned, every performed and is, in fact, how she learned to sing. It’s a fitting, touching tribute to her father and to war veterans everywhere.

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