Wednesday, March 29, 2006
SHE'S NOT DEAD, OKAY?
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 AS brilliant as first single "Stupid Girls" is, it simply does not compare with some of the truly sharp pop gems featured on the new P!NK album "I'm Not Dead".
Quite frankly, songs "Cuz I Can", "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)", "U & Ur Hand" and "Conversations with my 13 year old self" have spun the IAR offices upside down on its head, that is how good they are.
"Cuz I Can" should be a single (containing the line 'Ice Cream, Ice Cream, We all want Ice Cream' has pretty much made this song my favorite on the whole album), "U & Ur Hand" has an amazingly bright chorus which sounds pretty much exactly like the chorus from The Veronicas' "4ever" (actually, probably a bit TOO much like it to be completely honest with you), "Leave Me Alone (I'm Loney)" is schizophrenic pop music in its finest hour, and the "Conversations..." track is really quite tender, charming, a bit sad, AND ALL OF THAT OTHER RATHER SOPPY KIND OF STUFF YOU SEE.
But it is not just four outstanding songs and eleven filler. The album as a whole is really quite good. The only real stinker is "Dear Mr. President", which, to put it rather lightly, is a bit shithouse. To say it's a tad boring would be quite the understatement. I fell asleep at the GYM when it came on my iPod this morning.
THE GYM FOR GOODNESS SAKE.
Fifteen tracks, Fourteen of them brilliant. That's not a bad effort from someone who's last album had a total of 2 (two) good songs on it. I'm fairly confident in saying that this truly is the first really important pop album of 2006.
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