The Friday Canon: Pink

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

BLIMEY hasn't Pink had a lot of hits! Here's where you pick your favourite five.




[Poll #874449]

Comments

easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

First five singles = grebt
Everything since = rub

Re: easiest canon yet

[cis.livejournal.com]

!!! family potrait == HEART-RENDING WONDER. this is poss linked to the video, which is amazing.

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the three singles after the first five I do like with SADNESS and RESERVATIONS that they simply don't compare to anything which came before!

Pink's family angst <<<<<<< Xtina's family angst

Re: easiest canon yet

[cis.livejournal.com]

but Pink's family angst + Xtina's family Angst = fantastic new breed of female-confessional that is shiny shiny pop and not whiny acoustic sludge => joy.

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like a lot of the nu-female confessional but I'd give it all up in a second to have the golden age of r&b back :(

Re: easiest canon yet

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's not quite that simple. Lady M is rub and You Make Me Sick is a bit poor too. Whereas Trouble is good.

Re: easiest canon yet

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i can't remember 'most girls' at all so ticked 'you make me sick' out of desperation.

Re: easiest canon yet

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Most girls= marvellous. It is all about rejecting capitalism. Possibly.

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

think you gotta keep her iced, you don't; think she's gonna spend your cash, she won't; even if you were broke Pink's love don't cost a thing

Re: easiest canon yet

[cis.livejournal.com]

most girls want a man with the bling bling
got my own thing, got the ching ching
i just want real love...

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Most Girls' is the PINKANON WINNER, it really is banging.

Re: easiest canon yet

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Most Girls is good but I think the Problem Of Pink is summed up thus:

- she actually *was* a pretty generic R&B popstar, in fact I remember Tim Finney in 2000 writing about her first alb in similar terms to the ones Lex uses for Pussycat Dolls - absolutely generic but good because the genre is good.

- so her move to become Pink Rock actually makes sense - she's LOADS more individual and interesting now (sometimes in a kinda lame way as she feels she has to refight old rock battles), and that includes musically, but "interesting" music isn't always good music.

So the choice is between someone who is OK at a great style of music and someone who is grebt at her quite bad own thing.

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the fact that she's more individual now is precisely why she's worse, because she's so bloody unsubtle and loud and "LOOK I AM INDIVIDUAL" about it, the equivalent of indie kids banging on about how unique and unlike anyone else and unmainstream they are, and I don't think she is really, especially not now nu-female confessional has taken over so much.

and the thing with being generic in a brilliant genre is that often no one actually sounds quite like you because most other faces of that genre will have...something which marks them out, something which makes them ungeneric. to be generic is to encapsulate the platonic ideal of the genre!

Re: easiest canon yet

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Pink was one of two R&B stars I first heard on the Peel show, and I was almost as excited about There You Go as I was about Kelis's Get Along With You - she didn't strike me as simply generic then. I like some of the rockier stuff, but not as much as how she started.

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

b-b-but "got me lit like a candlestick"!

I really love this insane oversung diva version of Lady M, I bought the CD single at the time. It's so pneumatic.

I thought 'Trouble' was VERY poor, a shoddy aimless tuneless thing which marked the end of any interest I had in Pink.

Re: easiest canon yet

[cis.livejournal.com]

problem with lady mamamamamlade is that Mya comes off horribly within it, her voice doesn't blend at all and is this meek sexless nothing against all that brashness, Pink's snarl and Xtina's holler and Lil Kim's strutting drawl.

Re: easiest canon yet

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Mya is the COUNTERPOINT! the nice girl with the proverbial heart of gold, amidst her battle-toughened colleagues.