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Long Way to Happy was written by Pink and Butch Walker which is based on a poem Pink wrote when she was thirteen years old about sexual abuse.

“I know a lot of people that have been abused and/or molested and/or fucked over by someone close to them. And I’m no exception. And that’s that song”

LYRICS (Click image for lyrics)

Pink performed Long Way To Happy in April 2006 at the NYC Flashmob gig.

Who Knew was written by Pink, Max Martin and Dr. Luke, and was released by LaFace Records to radio in May 2006 as the second single from I’m Not Dead, with the B-side Disconnected. Who Knew was re-released in June 2007 in the United States.

Perhaps one of Pink’s most successful singles, Who Knew was well received by music critics, who acclaimed it as a solid song on the album and praised the lyrical content.

The song was commercially successful worldwide, where it peaked in the top spot in countries including Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and component charts in the United States. In addition, the song is also Pink’s longest chart runner on the Hot 100, spending 36 weeks before dropping out.

“My life was insane, I was [in her youth] out of control and doing lots of stupid things. Some of my friends were selling crack, and I got into drugs too. I’ve always been honest about that, although I don’t like going into details. I’ve got lots of young fans and I wouldn’t want to give them any ideas. I found a friend dead from a drug overdose when I was 14. He was a male friend, not a boyfriend. Most of the people at the funeral were just children. It should have been a wake-up call for me, but it wasn’t.”

On the Australian Singles Chart, Who Knew debuted at number six before rising to number two where it peaked for two consecutive weeks. It stayed in the charts for 32 weeks, becoming Pink’s second longest charting single in that country. It is also certified platinum for sales of over 70,000 copies.

In the European markets, the song was generally successful. Who Knew entered the UK Singles Chart at nineteen in early June, 2006 and ascended to a peak at five the following week. It is her joint fifth highest charting single in the UK and her second longest charting behind only So What. With a total of 26 weeks inside the top 100 songs it beats her number-one hit Just Like A Pill. The song had success throughout other charts in Europe, where it peaked in the top twenty in Switzerland, Austria, France, Belgium, Finland and Norway, while it peaked in the top fifty in The Netherlands and Sweden.

When the single was originally released in North America, Who Knew was less successful. Though it peaked at number nineteen on the BDS Airplay Chart in Canada, it was virtually ignored by American radio. In the U.S., where it was released to mainstream radio in May 2006, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, initially reaching number 18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart (which comprises the most popular songs yet to enter the Hot 100). Billboard magazine credited the poor performance of the single on radio with significantly reducing momentum of initial sales of I’m Not Dead.

In March 2007 the song was used in promotion for the ABC television show October Road, after which download sales of the song increased; as a result, it debuted at number ninety-five on the Hot 100 at the end of the month. During the same period, U + Ur Hand, the third single from I’m Not Dead, had achieved major success on pop radio and was credited with “reviving” Pink’s career in the U.S.

Pink performed Who Knew on  American Idol in May 2007. It was re-released to mainstream radio in the United States in June 2007, although it had already been receiving minor airplay on CHR/top 40 and hot AC/adult top 40 stations earlier in the month. In week twenty-five of 2007 Who Knew re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number ninety-four; it eventually climbed to number nine, giving Pink her eighth top ten single on the chart and matching the peak position of U + Ur Hand. The song is Pink’s longest chart runner on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 36 weeks before dropping out.

LYRICS (Click on the image for lyrics)

The single’s video was directed by Dragon, a team comprising Sam Bayer, Robert Hales and Brian Lazzaro. It was filmed on a weekend in April 2006 in Los Angeles, and it was released to the internet and to UK music channels in early May 2006. The video reached number one on MTV Germany’s top ten and on TRL Italy. Who Knew was voted number one on TRL Germany twenty times, allowing Pink to earn the “Golden Tape”. In the U.S. Total Request Live broadcast a “First Look” of the video in May, and it debuted on the show’s top ten countdown the following day; it spent eight non-consecutive days on the countdown, peaking at number seven.

It features a young couple visiting a fairground and going on the rides, and at one point the boy puts a necklace on the girl. The video flashes back to the boy secretly injecting himself with drugs on a previous night while the girl is sleeping. At the carnival, when the girl is playing a game, the boy walks away. The girl realizes he’s gone and follows him, but when she tries to get him to stay with her he gets violent. He goes to the back of the fairground to inject himself with drugs and breaks into a sweat. His girlfriend wanders around looking for him, and finds him unconscious; he has overdosed. She gives him a kiss, gives back the necklace and phones for an ambulance; after it has arrived, she walks away crying.

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The song has been performed on many of Pink’s world tours, including I’m Not Dead Tour, Funhouse Tour and its extension tour Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour and it was performed acoustically during promo radio shows in 2012 and then on the Truth About Love Tour.  As her personal favorite, the song was eventually included in Pink’s debut compilation album Greatest Hits… So Far!!!

I’m Not Dead Tour

V Festival 2007

Funhouse Tour

Summer Carnival Tour

The Truth About Love Tour

NYC Flashmob

Star Academy 

AOL Sessions

Much Music

• I’m Not Dead is Pink’s fourth studio album, released in 2006.
• It was recorded in 2005 and released on 4th April 2006, six years after Pink’s debut album, Can’t Take Me Home
• It was originally going to be released in September 2005, but the album was delayed for several months.
• Also, it was originally going to be titled Long Way To Happy, but was changed to I’m Not Dead in order to match the comeback nature of the album, and its heavy tone in terms of lyrical content, strong language and edgy sound.
• The album produced six singles, Stupid Girls, Who Knew, U + Ur Hand, Nobody Knows, Dear Mr President and Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely).
• When asked about why the title of the album is I’m Not Dead, Pink revealed that  “It’s about being alive and feisty and not sitting down and shutting up even though people would like you to.” She said it came from “the awakening” and how “it felt good to feel again … I turned twenty-five and I just kind of woke up and realized I have so much to learn, whereas before I thought I knew everything. That’s definitely a huge part of that title.”
• I’m Not Dead sold 126,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. and debuted at number six.
• I’m Not Dead debuted at number three in the United Kingdom selling 39,892 copies and was the ninth best-selling album of 2006 in the UK, with over 848,000 copies sold in the year.
• In Australia, after 26 weeks of release, I’m Not Dead ascended to number one to become Pink’s first number-one album. The album spent a record 62 consecutive weeks in the top ten and is Pink’s most successful album in Australia.
• After a promo tour in March 2006, Pink started the I’m Not Dead tour in North America, which would then go to arenas in Europe and Australia. Pink joined Justin Timberlake on tour in 2007, and then returned to Europe during summer 2007. The tour also went to South Africa.
• Pink worked with writers including Billy Mann, Max Martin and Butch Walker.
• The last song on the album, I Have Seen The Rain, is a song written by Pink’s dad, Jim Moore, who also features on the track.

PHOTOSHOOTS

Click the image below to see photoshoots from the I’m Not Dead era

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Stupid Girls was released as the lead single from I’m Not Dead in February 2006. It was written by Pink, Billy Mann, Niklas Olovson and Robin Mortensen Lynch. It was released with the b-side Heartbreaker.

Stupid Girls entered the U.s Billboard Hot 100 chart in late February 2006 at number 24 and was the week’s highest debut. It later climbed to number 13, becoming Pink’s eighth top 20 single in the United States. In Canada the single reached number two on the Canadian Singles Chart. In Australia it entered at number four on the ARIA Singles chart and is certified gold for sales of over 35,000. In the UK Stupid Girls peaked at number 4 on the Singles Chart.

Stupid Girls has be praised by fans and critics for its lyrical content of promoting intelligence in women and girls. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said on her official website that “Stupid Girls is the antidote-anthem for everything I had been thinking about women and thinness.”

She has rarely been as pointed in her socio-political views as in the hit “Stupid Girls”(…) “Stupid Girls is musically a dance/hip hop gem

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Stupid Girls was nominated in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards.

Lyrics (click image below)

The Music Video

The music video for Stupid Girls was directed by Dave Meyers and premiered on MTV’s broadband channel Overdrive in late January 2006.

The music video was shot at the same time as U + Ur Hand (also directed by Meyers), before a decision was made as to which would become the album’s lead single.

Pink describes the video as “sick and twisted and insane” and said of Dave Meyers “He has an insane imagination. I don’t think everyone else is going to laugh, but just know that we all did.”

According to Barry Weiss, president of Zomba Music Group, executives at Pink’s label were reluctant to release the song as the album’s first single until the video “hit a chord” with them. They decided to release the video before issuing the song to radio, and 8.6 million people downloaded the video when it was made available on the internet. Zomba’s senior vice president of marketing Janet Kleinbaum said that radio programmers “went online to download the audio from the video in order to get it on radio”.

The video shows Pink as an angel and a demon who try to influence the future of a young girl. The angel shows her a series of images demonstrating the stupidity of current trends in female celebrities, and the images feature Pink in various roles, including a dancer in a 50 Cent video, a girl attempting to attract the attention of an instructor at the gym, a girl who uses her emergency inflatable breasts at a bowling alley, a girl at a tanning salon, a girl with purging disorder who considers calories “so not sexy”, an old woman in a pink tracksuit who looks as if she is trying too hard to look young, a girl getting plastic surgery, a girl making a sex tape, a girl washing her car and rubbing a facecloth and soap all over herself, and a girl who goes into what looks like a pet shop, buys an “itsy bitsy doggy” with the advertisement that it “stays younger longer”, and drives her car so carelessly while putting on makeup that she runs over two people. Pink also plays characters meant to represent the opposite of “stupid girls”, such as a female president and a girl winning a game of football. The video ends with the girl choosing a football (fitness), a computer (work), books (knowledge and adequate education), dance shoes (love), and a keyboard (leisure) over makeup (vanity) and a set of dolls (children) as she wants a normal life and the images are too overwhelming for her; the demon is defeated.

Some of the negatively portrayed characters in the video are parodies of young female celebrities such as Mary-Kate Olsen, who provides the basis for the Boho-chic dressing style of the girl who visits a Fred Segal clothing store. The redheaded girl who accidentally hits pedestrians with her car is a parody of Lindsay Lohan. The scene in which Pink washes a car in a bikini is a parody of similar scenes in the video for Jessica Simpson’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” (2005) and a 2005 Carl’s Jr. television commercial featuring Paris Hilton. The digital video shots showing Pink in bed with a man parallel those in the Paris Hilton sex tape 1 Night in Paris. The scene where Pink portrays a blonde coming into a bathroom throwing up food in order to be skinny (portraying bulimia) is reported to be portraying Nicole Richie. Towards the end in the video, a middle-aged woman with leathery skin appears next to a hot pink Honda S2000, which is exactly the same car driven by Devon Aoki in the film 2 Fast 2 Furious.

The video debuted on the U.S. MTV Total Request Live countdown in January and peaked at number six; it remained on the countdown for fourteen days. The video was retired on the Poland version of MTV’s Total Request Live, and it won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video in August 2006. When she was receiving the award, Pink parodied Paris Hilton by talking in a higher pitched voice and acting overly excited. Nicole Richie co-presented the award.

Stupid Girls has been performed on the I’m Not Dead Tour and the Funhouse Tour, as well as other TV and award show performances.

I’m Not Dead Tour

Funhouse Tour

Top of the Pops

The Logie Awards

The Ellen Show

Hit Machine

Coca Cola Live

AVO Sessions

The Jonathan Ross Show

NYC Flashmob

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On This Day in Pink History… 12th March 2007 Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) was released in the UK

Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) was released as a single from Pink’s fourth studio album, I’m Not Dead. It was written by Pink and co-written and produced by Butch Walker.

In the beginning of February 2007, before its official release as a single, the song was put on the B-list of BBC Radio 1. It debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 60, and it rose to number 34, her lowest-peaking UK single at that time.

Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) is often performed at concerts, in which Pink will get the crowd to ‘dork dance’.

The music video consists of performances from Pink’s I’m Not Dead Tour. The video mostly includes shots of performances of Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely), but it also includes clips of performances of songs such as Stupid Girls, Fingers, The One That Got Away and U + Ur Hand.

LYRICS

• Vocals: Pink
• Backing vocals: Pink and Butch Walker
• Mixed by: Tom Lord-Alge
• Assisted by: Femio Hermandez
• Additional programming: Butch Walker
• Drum/Keyboard programming: Dan Chase
• Drums: Mylious Johnson
• Guitars: Butch Walker
• Bass: Butch Walker

Over the next few weeks, we will be looking back at P!nk’s fourth studio album, I’m Not Dead, which was released 10 years ago in 2006.

Part of this feature is to get fans involved. If you would like to get involved in this project, and feature on the PinkHistory website, then read below!

Send all email to: pinkhistory@hotmail.com

We are going to put together a collection of stories, photos and memories from fans of this era. We will be looking for your thoughts when you first heard the album, what your favourite song is from I’m Not Dead, your stories from the I’m Not Dead tour, and you can even send in some photos which will then feature on the PinkHistory website and Facebook page. Read below for some ideas:

• What is your favourite song from I’m Not Dead and what do it mean to you?
• Tell us about the first time you heard the album, what your first thoughts were and how it compares to other albums in your opinion
• Share your stories from the I’m Not Dead tour. Did you see a show on this tour? Which one and how was it? If you didn’t go to a show, do you have the tour DVD? What do you think of the tour DVD?
• Send in some photos to share with other fans. These could be photos of yourself with the I’m Not Dead album or other merchandise from that era, you & friends on the I’m Not Dead tour or photos of Pink that you took on the tour etc.

Please send all emails in by Sunday 20th March. These will then be put together and shared soon after. 

We will be sharing lots more fun I’m Not Dead stuff over the next few weeks, so be sure to check back here and on the Facebook page.

Thanks to the amazing Operation Pinkies for some of the artwork used throughout this project!

On This Day in Pink History… 10th March 2001 Pink attended MTV Icon: Janet Jackson

On This Day in Pink History… 3rd March 2008 Pink performed with Metal Skool

On This Day in Pink History… 2nd March 2014, Pink attended the Oscars

The 86th Academy Awards was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and took place on 2nd March 2014.

Pink performed Somewhere Over The Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz soundtrack.

Pink took the stage at the 86th annual Academy Awards on Sunday to perform “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz,” which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. In a sendup to Dorothy’s famous shoes, she donned a glittering red gown as footage from the movie played overhead.

Unlike Pink’s recent Grammy performance, the pop star was determined to keep grounded, shying away from the temptation to show off her aerial acrobatic abilities yet again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/02/pink-oscars-performance_n_4863758.html