When it comes to anger and songs that are aggressive towardsmen (because hating men is always fun) expression through lyrics, two names arefront-runners as divas of the genres. The first is American Idol’s prototypeKelly Clarkson, and the second is American singer-songwriter Alecia Beth Moore,better known as Pink.
‘The Truth About Love’ is the latter’s sixth studio album.The first single of her new lot, ‘Blow Me (One Last Kiss)’, sat firmly at thenumber five position on the ‘US Billboard Hot 100’ for three weeks, and wentPlatinum for over a million copies sold, as well as charting inside the top tenin several other countries.
The popularity of the album in the United States wasunquestionable, as it album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.It then went on to sell 281,000 copies in its first week alone, becoming herfirst number one album, before being certified Platinum after selling over amillion copies. The album also debuted at the number one position in Australia,Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland.
For a change, critics had only positive reviews to dole outabout the artist’s latest offering, as it marched on to become Pink's secondconsecutive album to receive a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop VocalAlbum. It is her third album to have achieved the honour overall; the other twobeing ‘Funhouse’ in 2008 and ‘Missundaztood’ in 2001.
The album has been co-written with studio aces such as MaxMartin and Greg Kurstin, and delivers power-chord packed electro-pop. Thelyrics however, are standard issue Pink: self-reliance, sex and rebellion.While the collection is extremely catchy, Pink strains to shock, pepperingsongs with her signature curse words.
‘Blow me One Last Kiss’is a single that has taken popaudiences by storm, but strays a little from the signature Pink style with aslight leaning towards the afore-mentioned Miss Clarkson. ‘Try’, the follow upsingle that was released to radio on the same day as its predecessor, is farmore ‘back to basics’ for the artist, with clear links to her 2007 hit ‘WhoKnew’. The best song on the album, however, is ‘Just Give Me a Reason’, aballad co-written with FUN frontman Nate Ruess. On this single, the drama isdialled back just a wee bit, letting the underlying sentiments do their work,instead of the usual anger directed at the microphone.
