Pink

Track by Track

Stupid Girls: This reggae-flavored romp packs a rhythm as funky as its message is bold. Pink is speaking her mind, and freeing her body ? and urging women and girls everywhere to do the same.

Who Knew: This Max Martin collaboration marries a pulsing bass line, and a pensive synth to a remembrance of a past love long gone. The sparsely arranged verse is the perfect contrast to the emotive crescendo of the chorus. Jangling guitars and strings accentuate the heartache.

Long Way To Happy: Pink and Butch Walker came up with a locomotive dirge that perfectly captures the song?s tale of innocence lost and wounds that just won?t heal. From the simple twinkling piano line that opens the song to the rocking explosion that marks the chorus, the track is a powerhouse.

Nobody Knows: Penned by Billy Mann, this song is an introspective meditation. It?s Pink at her most vulnerable, admitting that nobody would believe that strong, willful girls also cry themselves to sleep. The track is a classic ? a soulful rock ballad on par with legends like Aerosmith and Elton John.

Dear Mr. President: This Billy Mann collaboration features the Indigo Girls and it draws the best out of both artists. On this track, as on so many others on this album, Pink demonstrates the versatility of her voice. Singing softly and harmonizing beautifully with Amy Ray and Emily Sailers, Pink?s open letter to the President pulls no punches, as she asks him ?what kind of father would take his own daughters? rights away?? Poverty, gay rights, the plight of the poor and the homeless ? Pink asks all of the right questions. The song is exactly what folk music should be: earnest, challenging, aware and melodic.

I?m Not Dead: This blazing power ballad recalls the best of the 80?s. It?s an affirmation and an ode to metamorphosis ? a pledge to the future and a nod to the past.

Cuz I Can: This Max Martin production is a stomping electro clash challenge to anyone testing Pink?s mettle. Her soulful strut here is as unstoppable as the opening line: ?P.I.N.K?.P.I.M.P.? Uh-huh, that?s right.

Leave Me Alone, I?m Lonely: Pink and Butch Walker wrote this modern dance rock anthem that highlights yet another side of Pink?s vocal dexterity. The track tackles the ?careful what you wish for? scenario of a too-available lover, and how too much of the sweetest fruit will make anyone sick.

U + UR Hand: Produced and co-written with Max Martin, this upbeat rocker is a swaggering dis to rude club crawling dudes. Pink channels her inner Joan Jett here, the perfect compliment to a crunching hard rock hook and rave up chorus.

Runaway: A powerful mid-tempo ballad that captures the isolation at the core of the song, a tale of someone who is running away from others ? and themselves.

The One That Got Away: Pink as she?s never been heard before. The song?s intimate acoustic guitar line evokes vintage Neil Young ? the perfect backdrop for Pink to sing the blues. Janis Joplin would be proud.

I Got Money Now: Written with Dr. Dre?s track maker Mike Elizondo, this smooth, edgy, R&B confessional is Pink taking stock of her life now that she?s a success. It?s what Pink does best ? truth and attitude. As she paints a picture of a life of travel and fake friends, she echoes what most people believe to be true: that despite what she?s saying, she must be happy because she?s got money now.

Conversations With My 13 Year Old Self: Pink?s open letter to a teenaged Alecia Moore, one who never thought she?d ever be where she is now; a complicated fighter who she?d like to ask not to grow up too fast.

I Have Seen the Rain: This hidden track is a duet between Pink and her father, James T. Moore. As she explains before the song, her father wrote it while serving in Vietnam. As a child, Pink used to accompany her father to Veterans? centers and sing it with him ? it was the first song she ever learned, ever performed and is, in fact, how she learned to sing. It?s a fitting, touching tribute to her father and to war veterans everywhere.