Pink: Raise Your Glass

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I walked away with a huge appreciation for Pink’s talent, artistry, determination and straight forwardness.

Talking to ABC News about recording the song, Pink recalled how it was like 20 minutes had bypassed her by. "I went into the studio and I didn't know what I was going to sing and 20 minutes later I was crying and didn't really remember what I did," she said. You don't have to be popular when you're a touring artist," she expanded, discussing her underdog status, "You just have to be good, and this is just a celebration and a thank you." I almost always like a song or two off of her albums, and I lean toward preferring her first few, but I admire her greatly as a person. Not sure where that places me on the fandom spectrum, but there it is. That is where I am coming from. Lyrically, “Raise Your Glass” takes delight in being “loud and nitty-gritty dirty little freaks,” but it never gets much more specific than that. Pink sings about being wrong in the right way, being an underdog, but she doesn’t say what that means. In the video, things become a little more clear. A lot of the clip is pure silliness — Pink pretending to be a bull who defeats a matador, Pink sumo-wrestling with the Monopoly guy. But Pink also poses as Rosie The Riveter, a clear pop-feminist statement, and director Dave Meyers shows Pink playing guitar at a gay wedding. The shot of two guys kissing is immediately followed by Pink dressing up as a cholo for the “call me up if you a gangsta” line, which probably wasn’t necessary, but that kiss is in there. American single certifications – P!nk – Raise Your Glass". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved June 26, 2023.Instead, Pink found solace in music, and as early as the age of 13 she was navigating the complicated Philadelphia club scene. By the time she was 14, she was already an experienced vocalist and dancer, and started to write her own songs. She also had a regular singing gig every Friday night at a Philly nightclub. But it proved to be a hard life for her to manage, as she was swallowed by a world of drugs (she nearly overdosed at the age of 15) and petty crime. She eventually dropped out of high school before returning to earn her G.E.D. in 1998. Early Music Career ARIA End of Year Singles Chart 2011". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 2020-02-28. This book is divided into chapters to cover specifics about her life based on her albums. The overall structure seems to be chronological, yet there are discrepancies that make reading more confusing. There are random facts thrown in that are related to the individuals being discussed, yet don’t fit chronologically. There is also more repetition of information than I would have cared for. Some of the same details about her life are shared in more than one chapter.

I had been on the road for two years," Pink told Alex James on In:Demand about writing the song,"and I hadn't written anything and I just wanted to write a song about underdogs." Geselowitz, Gabriela (10 May 2011). "Uri Westrich, 25". The Times of Israel . Retrieved 21 March 2017. Raise Your Glass" serves as the opening song of The Truth About Love Tour. Pink performed the song live at American Music Awards of 2010 at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. [15] It has also been added to Pink's Beautiful Trauma Tour and Pink Summer Carnival, pink trustfall tour Other versions [ edit ] Pink - Raise Your Glass is a comprehensive biography of superstar powerhouse performer Pink, from her troubled childhood and teen years to the megastar she is now. Like 'Don't Let Me Get Me', Pink's third single from Missundazstood, 'Just Like A Pill', was co-written with Dallas Austin.

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Away from the record studio, Pink's life was also evolving. She married her boyfriend, Motocross star Carey Hart, in Costa Rica, after proposing to him during one of his races. But like her parents' marriage, Pink's union with Hart proved to be tumultuous, and just two years after they exchanged vows, the couple separated. Her fifth album, Funhouse (2008), drew from the raw emotions she was feeling from her separation. It also proved to be a huge commercial success, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard chart, and inspiring a wild, worldwide tour that featured the artist performing blindfolded and—in some instances—singing upside-down on a trapeze. Pink was the second child born to Jim and Judy Moore. She experienced a largely typical middle-class life in a suburb of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Her parents' tense relationship, however, caused the couple to divorce when Pink was three. Their split and the subsequent demise of the marriage sparked, in part, a rebellious attitude from Pink. "I was never allowed to go over to any of my friends' houses when I was little, because I was a bad influence," she said of her early life. "None of their parents liked me and my own parents were scared to death of me— and for me." Working mainly with Linda Perry on Missundazstood, Pink wanted to showcase a different side to herself. "In the beginning I just said, 'What do you feel?' and [Pink] would just sit behind the piano and sing," Perry recalled. There is power in believing in yourself. You may not be the best that ever did it, you may not be the prettiest, or the tallest, or the funniest, or the most talented — if you’re stubborn and you don’t give up and you work really hard — no one else can ever be you.”—Pink

In several sequences Pink is shown depicting the iconography of Rosie the Riveter on the " We Can Do It!" poster. Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2010" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17 . Retrieved July 27, 2022. We learn about her young life and family, her career and passions, and her family today. And every step of the way we see her music develop. There’s a reason she won Billboard’s Icon award in 2021.Pink is one of the most trailblazing artists of our time. Her breakthrough album, Missundaztood, was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and showcased her unique, powerhouse pop vocals, as well as her rebellious style. In the two decades since, she has remained firmly in pop's upper echelons, despite her refusal to conform. Pink released Greatest Hits… So Far!!! two years after she scored her first #1 hit as a solo artist. “ So What” only topped the Hot 100 for a single week in fall of 2008, but it represented the cumulative strength of what Pink had done. By that point, Pink had been through a few different aesthetic phases and figured out how she wanted to sound. She’d landed on a persona, an approachably rebellious lady who’s always singing about her own messiness. She’d refused to remain artistically involved with the magma-hot Dr. Luke after Luke had helped give her a couple of her biggest hits, though she remained artistically involved with Luke’s mentor, the also-magma-hot Max Martin. You can hear all of that at work on “So What.” Away from the studio, Pink's live shows are nothing short of phenomenal; her jaw-dropping acrobatics mark her out as a truly spectacular performer. The song was featured in a commercial for the 2011 film Bridesmaids, and in the theatrical trailers for the films What's Your Number? and New Year's Eve. [3] Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause and Gleb Savchenko danced the tango to the song on the premiere of Dancing with the Stars.