By Charmie
P!nk gave us a new album just afew weeks ago, titled “Hurts 2B Human”.
Just a year and a half after the amazing “Beautiful Trauma”, this new work is not any less great. We’re lucky to find amazing features from Khalid, on the title track, and Wrabel on 90 days and songwriter credits to some awesome artists we all love; Sia, Julia Michaels, Khalid, and P!nk herself so obviously it’s some awesome work on this project.
She’s a slightly different P!nk on this album; the usual real talk, but a little less rough around the edges. The songs plus their content don’t fall far from the album title Hurts 2B Human as she basically tells us on every song “I’m human, and it sucks sometimes. Most times”. She’s real, raw and honest about growing up, things changing, relationships failing, being a mother, being herself, and, being human.
The album starts off with Don’t Hustle Me, where we get the good old “So What” P!nk saying don’t mess with her ‘cause she’ll mess you up before you get to that.
After the first track she gets on to the real business of this album; being human and how all that comes with it sucks. On Hurts 2B human, the title track, is my personal favourite, Khalid, talking about it hurts to be human. A lot happens. But we’ve got each other that makes it easier (this life thing slaps a bit harder when you can’t count on anyone, yo.)
[RELATIONSHIPS]
On (Hey Why) Miss You Sometime is something we’ve all probably been through. An ex love. Like, ‘you’re shit, you screwed me over, but here I am, not knowing why I still miss you”. Relationships end and sometimes, that’s not what you want but you can’t help it. On 90 Days ft Wrable Pink talks about a relationship that’s tearing at the seams where both people know it but there’s nothing about it that could possibly change.
We Could Have It all brings us to another failed relationship where she saw it headed to the end till it ended and wonders what the hell happened ‘cause… We could have it all. But we don’t. Things change. “First Envy, then comes shame, then secrets, then blame”.
[YOU’VE GOT FLAWS, A.K.A YOU’RE HUMAN]
I’m human and most times I’m terrible. But could you love me anyway? – P!nk, on Love Me Anyway. On My Attic, Pink and Julia Michaels talk about our little skeletons in our little closets and all things we hide from people ‘cause, obviously, they’ll see us different. And on Happy, is some relatable content about questioning our bodies from teenage years, and getting into our twenties questioning the good love that we get from people because for our own odd reasons, we think we don’t deserve it. “I’m so scared of having something to lose, being somebody new, them seeing the truth…”
[CHANGE]
If you’re a big fan of Sia as I am, and have heard this album, you know the song I’m about to talk about. YEAH, COURAGE! You hear this song for the first time and you can’t help but hear all the Sia around it. Awesome song, and sounds a lot like Unstoppable by Sia. Sia, one of the Songwriters on this talks about how we both consciously and subconsciously fight all the good change that tries to happen in our lives (guilty?) lol oh well, You’ve got the Courage to fix that mess.
Speaking of change, not a lot of us are too excited about that concept. On Can We Pretend, Pink says what everyone wants, to go back. To 22, when we liked everything, ‘cause reality sucks.
We all think Pink is a badass mom, right? Turns out, badass moms get in their feelings too. On Circle Game, she gets in touch with her inner little daddy’s girl and how she wants to be the badass that her little daughter (and probably all of us) see her to be.
The Last Song of Your Life, which also takes last spot on the tracklist gets on some personal stuff. Like if you had one last chance to talk about the things you wanna fix in your life, what would you talk about, what would you try to correct? “it would be nice to see the real you.” “if this is the last song of your life, then I’m inviting you, to get it right”.
As I am inviting you, to listen to this amazing piece of work that P!nk made for us.
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