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PINK - FUNHOUSE

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Title:

FUNHOUSE

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Catalog No:

CDAST526

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Price:

R79.95

Tracks

1.	So What	2.	Sober
3.	I Don't Believe You	4.	One Foot Wrong
5.	Please Don't Leave Me	6.	Bad Influence
7.	Funhouse	8.	Crystal Ball
9.	Mean	10.	It's All Your Fault
11.	Ave Mary A	12.	Glitter In The Air
13.	This Is How It Goes Down

Review

Labelled as her most vulnerable album to date, Funhouse is P!nk getting on with business while setting her sights at topping her two Grammy Awards, 5 MTV Video Music Awards and eight Top Ten singles. Funhouse is ultimately P!nk’s very own metaphor for being in love and for life. “Life is like a carnival,” she explains. “Clowns are funny on the outside, but inside they could be sad, and you wouldn’t know it from looking at them. You walk into the hall of mirrors and everything is distorted. You become disorientated and don’t know how you got there. This is album that compares well with a circus as it’s full of contradiction and extremes. Happy, scary, fun and laughter, Funhouse has all that and more.

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Biography

Pink has certainly earned the right to do whatever she damn well pleases. Her 2000 début album, Can't Take Me Home was certified platinum. Her second, Missundaztood, catapulted her to international prominence and brought her massive critical acclaim.

But when it came time to record her third album, Try This, Pink wasn't about to just hit repeat. "Last time, everyone thought I was crazy. I was completely changing directions and I didn't have a lot of support on my side until halfway through the album. This time I could do whatever I wanted. I was gonna do death metal opera, but it didn't really work out," she jokes.

Pink used the creative freedom she fought so hard for on Missundaztood to reinvent herself once again on Try This. And while Missundaztood could have been ripped from a chapter of Pink's personal diary, Try This reveals a more liberated, looser artist. "Missundaztood was a very deep, lyrical expression. It was therapy. This album isn't so heavy," she explains. "Instead of writing only about myself, I worked in stories about a lot of different people."

Pushing herself even further creatively and embracing her rocker roots, Pink found the missing piece to her musical puzzle in the form of a mohawked Californian punk rocker: Rancid's Tim Armstrong. "We wrote 10 songs in a week," Pink says. "I went out on tour with him and the Foo Fighters. I slept on the bus with them and we recorded a lot of the songs in the back of the bunk."

"Trouble", the album's raw, raucous first single, was penned by Pink and Armstrong, who shares writing credits with Pink on ten cuts and produced the bulk of Try This. It's a no-holds-barred rock anthem that Pink declares is "more than just an attitude song." Not that the cut doesn't have plenty of attitude. You better believe it when she sings, "I'm trouble/If you see me coming down the street/ You know it's time to go."