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Village Voice - Pink: Similiar to the Early Clash?
Demo'ing Down
Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds
by Jon Dolan
April 28th, 2006 12:03 PM
Not unlike the early Clash?
Pink
Not Dead Yet
LaFace
The rare teenpop tour de force that defines itself by what it can't figure out rather than what it assumes you want it to tell you, Pink's anti-Paris, anti-Bush, anti-teenpop manifesto was TV filler before it had time to tank-or-not. Matt Lauer even declared her a pop star like none we've ever seen. The first part is true only in a loose sense. But an American Morning panel of young girls declaring Not Dead Yet both comforting and instructive undercuts the idea that stardom is any measure of success anyway. Naturally, most media enthusiasm for the anti-objectification single "Stupid Girls" quickly devolves into more proof that the greatest weapon in the war against blonde women is other blonde women. Nicer people have sussed out the humanity.
In Rolling Stone, Barry Walters distinguishes the album as "ambitious" and indeed, Pink sets out to do nothing less than redefine a moment in the human life cycle—that last emotional nanosecond in the scary descent from idealized American subject-citizen (fetus) to ideal American object–cash crop (self-conscious consumer). "Loud Guitar" presets, dance-punk basslines, and grown 'n' conscious folk ballads signify maturation, but Pink's goal is to deke out the music she couldn't transcend by demo-shifting down instead of growing up. For a couple hundred thousand or so 10-year-olds soon to enter hell, this could be The Clash. Or at least a first soul-moistening bath in the aesthetic flop sweat of good intentions gone screwy.
Not unlike like the early Clash, Pink's wisdom, such as it is, barrels forth from a Nietzschean power-surge of inspired confusion. Beyond "Stupid Girls," which creates a positive by listing predictive negatives (hey, 10-year-olds, don't get boob jobs!), it's hard to discern what ethical certainty one would divine from a WWPD candy bracelet. Pink would: tell you (along with her "13-year-old self") that all you ever need is you (plus maybe a timbale), get drunk and convince herself she's famous, call her "friend" Christina an idiot, attack negative body imaging like a junior high health teacher then go and put her ass crack on the back of her record, be craven, strong, pathetic, annoying, and also maybe a lesbian. This goes beyond recapping the "complicated" image she rode in on. She stares into the abyss and the abyss says, "Tear down the patriarchy, sort of, but definitely lay off the simple carbs. And stop staring into me! I'm the abyss!" This sense of all-too-human auto-bumfuzzlement is emboldened by
Not Dead Yet's stunningly ass-backward theory of how to make a viable pop album in our unfortunate millennium, a stylistic dyslexia so grandiose it explodes traditional conceptions of "quality" altogether.
The most sensible track is e-mailed in from Max Martin, a man so proud he'll go to the A-list stuff even when your record might fall in the well. Martin's "U & Ur Hand" is a feminist "Get the Party Started," redone by Quiet Riot if they were Smurfs. "Who Knew" is Pink's version of Kelly Clarkson doing Karen O, or Gwen if she got a DUI in Silver Lake. "Long Way to Happy" is fuzz-toned folk-rock with Wu-tinkle piano bursting into self-help Lilith-metal. Ballad time comes early, weird, and like a hurricane. Linda Perry–esque piano shamestorm? Check. Advice letter to the president penned with the Indigo Girls where Pink for some reason assumes Laura Bush has a soul? It would appear so. Advice letter to her seventh-grade self? Woodstock-era how-many-roads folk song written by her Vietnam vet father? Yes. Yes. As the man on the Titanic said as he strapped on his galoshes, it really is all quite something. But the last one is a truly special moment in America's long tortured history of trying not to be retarded. Somewhere, someday—maybe today—a wee troubled tween will throw down that Blackberry and wander forth from her bedroom cage asking: "Daddy, what's Vietnam?" If we only we knew, Virginia, if only we knew.
Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds
by Jon Dolan
April 28th, 2006 12:03 PM
Not unlike the early Clash?
Pink
Not Dead Yet
LaFace
The rare teenpop tour de force that defines itself by what it can't figure out rather than what it assumes you want it to tell you, Pink's anti-Paris, anti-Bush, anti-teenpop manifesto was TV filler before it had time to tank-or-not. Matt Lauer even declared her a pop star like none we've ever seen. The first part is true only in a loose sense. But an American Morning panel of young girls declaring Not Dead Yet both comforting and instructive undercuts the idea that stardom is any measure of success anyway. Naturally, most media enthusiasm for the anti-objectification single "Stupid Girls" quickly devolves into more proof that the greatest weapon in the war against blonde women is other blonde women. Nicer people have sussed out the humanity.
In Rolling Stone, Barry Walters distinguishes the album as "ambitious" and indeed, Pink sets out to do nothing less than redefine a moment in the human life cycle—that last emotional nanosecond in the scary descent from idealized American subject-citizen (fetus) to ideal American object–cash crop (self-conscious consumer). "Loud Guitar" presets, dance-punk basslines, and grown 'n' conscious folk ballads signify maturation, but Pink's goal is to deke out the music she couldn't transcend by demo-shifting down instead of growing up. For a couple hundred thousand or so 10-year-olds soon to enter hell, this could be The Clash. Or at least a first soul-moistening bath in the aesthetic flop sweat of good intentions gone screwy.
Not unlike like the early Clash, Pink's wisdom, such as it is, barrels forth from a Nietzschean power-surge of inspired confusion. Beyond "Stupid Girls," which creates a positive by listing predictive negatives (hey, 10-year-olds, don't get boob jobs!), it's hard to discern what ethical certainty one would divine from a WWPD candy bracelet. Pink would: tell you (along with her "13-year-old self") that all you ever need is you (plus maybe a timbale), get drunk and convince herself she's famous, call her "friend" Christina an idiot, attack negative body imaging like a junior high health teacher then go and put her ass crack on the back of her record, be craven, strong, pathetic, annoying, and also maybe a lesbian. This goes beyond recapping the "complicated" image she rode in on. She stares into the abyss and the abyss says, "Tear down the patriarchy, sort of, but definitely lay off the simple carbs. And stop staring into me! I'm the abyss!" This sense of all-too-human auto-bumfuzzlement is emboldened by
Not Dead Yet's stunningly ass-backward theory of how to make a viable pop album in our unfortunate millennium, a stylistic dyslexia so grandiose it explodes traditional conceptions of "quality" altogether.
The most sensible track is e-mailed in from Max Martin, a man so proud he'll go to the A-list stuff even when your record might fall in the well. Martin's "U & Ur Hand" is a feminist "Get the Party Started," redone by Quiet Riot if they were Smurfs. "Who Knew" is Pink's version of Kelly Clarkson doing Karen O, or Gwen if she got a DUI in Silver Lake. "Long Way to Happy" is fuzz-toned folk-rock with Wu-tinkle piano bursting into self-help Lilith-metal. Ballad time comes early, weird, and like a hurricane. Linda Perry–esque piano shamestorm? Check. Advice letter to the president penned with the Indigo Girls where Pink for some reason assumes Laura Bush has a soul? It would appear so. Advice letter to her seventh-grade self? Woodstock-era how-many-roads folk song written by her Vietnam vet father? Yes. Yes. As the man on the Titanic said as he strapped on his galoshes, it really is all quite something. But the last one is a truly special moment in America's long tortured history of trying not to be retarded. Somewhere, someday—maybe today—a wee troubled tween will throw down that Blackberry and wander forth from her bedroom cage asking: "Daddy, what's Vietnam?" If we only we knew, Virginia, if only we knew.
-tom
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it was what she was like...I still like "dont let me get me" , "get this party"
HHmmm....media does get to me.....there's no escape...let me follow
you around 12 hours a day and just say the word "weed" every five minutes....It could not but have an effect on your attitude towards
"420" you'd be getting a new avitar.
HHmmm....media does get to me.....there's no escape...let me follow
you around 12 hours a day and just say the word "weed" every five minutes....It could not but have an effect on your attitude towards
"420" you'd be getting a new avitar.
Shloemoe has gone. Adieu...Adieu!
speedfreeks dude....some peoples minds race off on that stuff and it's all about hurting people for entertainment....they're usually small peep
who have to spread the pain......never was my bag......MAN!...though
I did get pretty hurt!....absorbed it I guess....but aint got no love fer head game playa's.....is that you Rot?
who have to spread the pain......never was my bag......MAN!...though
I did get pretty hurt!....absorbed it I guess....but aint got no love fer head game playa's.....is that you Rot?
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drugs are for dumbcunts...I ain't into that shit nor into hurting people for entertainment.Thats fucked.....sorry you got hurt...shloemoe wrote:speedfreeks dude....some peoples minds race off on that stuff and it's all about hurting people for entertainment....they're usually small peep
who have to spread the pain......never was my bag......MAN!...though
I did get pretty hurt!....absorbed it I guess....but aint got no love fer head game playa's.....is that you Rot?
well thanx for the sympathy...I've seen what money 'n' drugs can buy.
shloemoe has vulnerabilities....I can tell ya about the efforts 'o'
shitheads that would make you regard me a NUT-CASE...and that's
how they where designed.....Brothers...sisters....Hell bent on compliance!
...and entertainment....dont try to figure it out rot...it's not about you
....wierd comments from me are for the people I used to love....who
STILL follow.....
shloemoe has vulnerabilities....I can tell ya about the efforts 'o'
shitheads that would make you regard me a NUT-CASE...and that's
how they where designed.....Brothers...sisters....Hell bent on compliance!
...and entertainment....dont try to figure it out rot...it's not about you
....wierd comments from me are for the people I used to love....who
STILL follow.....
Shloemoe has gone. Adieu...Adieu!
shloemoe wrote:it was what she was like...I still like "dont let me get me" , "get this party"
HHmmm....media does get to me.....there's no escape...let me follow
you around 12 hours a day and just say the word "weed" every five minutes....It could not but have an effect on your attitude towards
"420" you'd be getting a new avitar.
oh yeah I forgot to say ....Ah-hahahahahaha!.....lets hear your denial!
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oh yeah this started out about pink...and....and....you know that top article
wasn't really written plainly....call me illiterate.. but i dint even get the
gest of it.....I like pink, but when you put "cool" in a package....it aint cool
no mo!......ah foget about it.
wasn't really written plainly....call me illiterate.. but i dint even get the
gest of it.....I like pink, but when you put "cool" in a package....it aint cool
no mo!......ah foget about it.
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So you don't know why you were being watched?? Did you do something then??rotter wrote:This dog will never have his day cuz I'll never know the why I was being watched.
And if you've never seen it with your own eyes, it just don't make sense!- Josie
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What exactly is the Stage of Rage??Brad-Cow-Disease wrote:Rotters Stage of Rage is amazing
And if you've never seen it with your own eyes, it just don't make sense!- Josie
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The Stage of Rage is my backyard ranting and poetry I preformed for the "watchers" ...the infamous Americans that liked to watch me in 2004.I got drunk...I ranted.....there was insanity...and screaming,dancing....and pissing galore. I had an audience so I acted out...I loved the attention.They probably thought me a nutjob It was all fake. Except for the drunkins and piss..... :lol:The Stage of Rage is now closed...the audience left so whats the use...DIsPervertNurse wrote:What exactly is the Stage of Rage??Brad-Cow-Disease wrote:Rotters Stage of Rage is amazing
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LMAO....well then....that is a bit strange now isn't it then!
And if you've never seen it with your own eyes, it just don't make sense!- Josie
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Yes, i see that! That's what I like about ya though! You are what you are, at least it seems so on here!
And if you've never seen it with your own eyes, it just don't make sense!- Josie
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LMAO....you fucking kill me!
And if you've never seen it with your own eyes, it just don't make sense!- Josie
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LMAO...hell no....I don't drink Pepsi...yuck! Coke my dear...coke!
And if you've never seen it with your own eyes, it just don't make sense!- Josie
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And a splash of lemon...Le Cubra Libra! But that is really the only drink I drink when I do drink...which is VERY RARE!
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I never got into it at all. Never much cared for the way it made me feel...guess that's why I have never cared about trying pot or anything else like that. Just never was curious nor cared about it.
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LMFAO....oh dear bog!
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