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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Thing about Pink is that she seems kind of more eccentric than punk. I quite like her all the same.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I think Pink is one of those pop stars where everyone knows who she is but if you asked most people to sit down and name five of her songs they'd struggle. I don't know what most of these sound like!

There's going to be a massive runaway winner here.

[koganbot]

P!nk's best two songs are "Is It Love?" and "Dear Diary," neither of them singles; "Is It Love?" is on the first alb and foreshadows the r&b spareness (the stark sound in a large dark empty space) that is to come from Ciara and Cassie et al. AND foreshadows the family drama that is to come from Pink. It has r&b discipline and the mess that's trying to break out of it, perfectly balanced. It's about her relation to a boyfriend who's ignoring her but it's addressed to her parents from whom she needs understanding that she knows they're incapable of providing. All this conveyed in maybe 12 lines. "Dear Diary" is a chant and a mother-goose singsong, circling around, never able to alight.

"There You Go" did too have a distinct voice, though its distinction is easier to hear in retrospect. The track's a Kandi-She'kspere-type thing not unlike "No Scrubs" and "Bills Bills Bills," but that's not enough to be a genre or generic given that TLC and Destiny's Child both have strong individual identities that shine through the style (TLC phlegm and Beyonce's gloss are kinda opposites, don't you think?), and Pink sings with an earlier-era r&b's burr and franticness; she'll later pry the burr and franticness farther open to create a chasm of pain.

You can only wonder how sexy she'll be...

[koganbot]

Xgau's review of the first alb:

Can't Take Me Home [LaFace, 2000]
Armed with a Day-Glo dye job and some ace Babyface subcontracts, a tough talker diddles teenpop's love button. In a world where the half-word "sh-" teeters on the edge of going too far, she and hers bet - correctly - that a simple "I'm pissed" will pack a wallop, and work from there. When she admits to the loss of her slurred "cherry" in the finale, you can only wonder how sexy she'll be when she shows pink for real. B+

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

my favourite, for sheer audacity, is my vietnam, comparing family conflict to a forty year war taht killed millions, and it works, it shouldnt work, but she has the ego to pull it off

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

sod five ticks. I ticked most of these - following the mark s Quo principle

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Feel Good Time and There You Go are fantabulous.