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

[Poll #874449]

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From:

alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

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

From:

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.

From:

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!

From:

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.