M!ssundaztood

I thought I would do a POP album this time around for my review. With POP music it's sometimes seen as manufactured junk. That would be putting it lightly. But there are artists who are apart of this genre type who mix it up and show that a POP album can be absolutely amazing.

P!nk's second album M!ssundaztood is exactly that, It was where I think people stood up and took notice of her as a true artist. Her first album Can't Take Me Home was an attempt to display her as an R'n'B artist. I personally believe that and that has been my opinion since I first heard it. With her second album she took control of the album and her career and showed that she can deliver something that is extremely fun but it's also a serious attempt at showing she can deliver a mature album.

The first album to me felt like she is a tough bitch and has a shitload of attitude. But M!ssundaztood is almost like every emotion that she wish she could have said first time around and had no creative control. Give an artist room to move and show that she the can evolve and P!nk did just that and delivered an amazing POP record that showed a serious artist who had much more to say then her first studio album hinted. I believe the worldwide sales of fifteen million also proved that she is a fucking star.

With my choices for my favorite tracks It was so hard to pick three so I will include four this time around as this album is packed with so many good tracks. All my choices in regards to lyrics have a theme of a vulnerable woman who isn't as tough as she appeared first time around. They hint at emotional sides that she didn't get to display first time around. These four choices are my favorite tracks off M!ssundaztood.


JUST LIKE A PILL

I'm lying here on the floor where you left me
I think I took to much
I'm crying here, what have you done?
I thought it would be fun

I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine
Cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again
But she's being a little bitch
I think I'll get out of here
Where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of making me better
You keep making me ill
You keep making me ill

I haven't moved from the spot where you left me
This must be a bad trip
All of the other pills, they were different
Maybe I should get some help

I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine
Cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again
But she's being a little bitch
I think I'll get out of here
Where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of making me better
You keep making me ill
You keep making me ill

I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine
Cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again
But she's being a little bitch
I think I'll get out of here
Where I can run

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of making me better
You keep making me ill
You keep making me ill


FAMILY PORTRAIT

Uh Uh Some deep shit
Uh Uh look away
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Mama please stop crying
I can't stand the sound
Your pain is painful and it's
Tearing me down

I hear glasses breaking
As I sit up in my bed
I told dad you didn't mean
Those nasty things you said
You fight about money
Bout me and my brother
And this I come home to
This is my shelter

It ain't easy growing up in world war three
Never known what love could be
You'll see
I don't want love to destroy me
Like it has done my family

Can we work it out (Can we)
Can we be a family (Can we)
I promise I'll be better (I promise)
Mommy I'll do anything (I'll do anything)
Can we work it out?
Can we be a family?
I promise I'll be better
Daddy please don't leave

Daddy please stop yelling (stop)
I can't stand the sound (Can't stand the sound)
Make mama stop crying
Cause I need you around (Yeah yeah yeah)
My mama she loves you (I know it)
No matter what she says It's true
I know that she hurts you
But remember I love you too!

I ran away today, ran from the noise
Ran away (Ran away)
Don't wanna go back to that place
But don't have no choice, no way (No choice, no way)

It ain't easy growing up in world war three
Never knowing what love could be
But I've seen, I don't want love to destroy me
Like it did my family

Can we work it out (Can we work it out oh!)
Can we be a family
I promise I'll be better (I promise)
Mommy I'll do anything (Anything to keep you here)
Can we work it out?
Can we be a family?
I promise I'll be better (I promise, I promise)
Daddy please don't leave

In our family portrait (In our family portrait)
We look pretty happy (We look pretty happy)
Let's play pretend, Act like it comes naturally
I don't want to have to split the holidays
I don't want two addresses
I don't want a stepbrother anyways
And I don't want my mom to have to change her last name
Oh no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no

In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
We look pretty normal
Let's go back to that
In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
Let's play pretend, Act like it goes naturally

In our family portrait (Can we work it out)
We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
We look pretty normal (I promise I'll be better)
In our family portrait (Can we work it out)
We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
Let's play pretend (I promise I'll be better)
Act like it comes naturally (Daddy please don't leave)
Oh let's go back to that
Oh let's go back to that
Remember the days
Remember the days
Please go back to that (Daddy please don't leave)

Don't leave, Don't leave, Daddy don't leave
Don't leave, Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Don't leave, Don't leave
Turn around please, He's so mad

Remember that night you left
You took my shining star
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Don't leave us here alone

Mama I'll be nicer
I'll be so much better
I'll tell my brother
Oh I won't spill the milk at dinner
I'll be so much better
I'll do everything right
I'll be your little girl forever
I'll go to sleep at night
Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh


DON'T LET ME GET ME

Never win first place
I don't support the team
I can't take direction
And my socks are never clean
Teachers dated me
My parents hated me
I was always in a fight
Cause I can't do anything right

Everyday I fight a war against the mirror
I can't take the person staring back at me
I'm a hazard to myself

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
I wanna be somebody else, yeah

LA told me
You'll be a POP star
All you have to change
Is everything you are
Tired of being compared
To damn Britney Spears
She's so pretty
That just ain't me

So Doctor, Doctor
Won't you please prescribe me something?
A day in the life of someone else
Cause I'm a hazard to myself

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
Yeah
Don't let me get me
Don't let me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself


GOIN TO CALIFORNIA

I'm goin to California
To live in the summer sun
The streets are made of silver
I'm like a rabbit on the run
Philadelphia freedom
Well it's not like you have heard
No, no, no
This city of brotherly love
Is full of pain and hurt

I'm goin to California
To find my pot of gold
Corruption on every corner
Hustlers selling sweets
Baby is home crying
While her mom is on the streets
Everybody's dying
Have you heard the news today?
A woman in North Philly is mourning
A bullet took another son away
Why?

I'm goin to California
I'm going far, far, far away
Goin to California, yeah

Goin to California, yeah
To resurrect my soul
The sun is always shining, shining
Or at least that's what I'm told
I'm goin to California
There's a better life for me, yes
I'm goin to California
I'll write and tell you what I see
I'm goin to California
Somebody say a prayer for me