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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Pink (singer)
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Alecia Beth Moore, known professionally as Pink, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She was signed to her first record label with original R&B girl group Choice in 1995, the label, LaFace Records saw potential in only Pink, offering her a solo deal. Pink rose as an artist with her solo album, Cant Take Me Home. It was certified double-platinum in the United States and spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top-ten hits, There You Go and Most Girls and she gained further recognition with the Moulin Rouge. Soundtrack Lady Marmalade, which gave Pink her first Grammy Award as well as her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, Pink took control in early 2001 insisting she wanted to work with her childhood hero, Linda Perry. Pink took more control and pursued a pop direction for her second album. It sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and yielded three United States top-ten singles, Get the Party Started, Dont Let Me Get Me, Pinks third album, Try This, generated considerably lower sales, but earned her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Pink revived her popularity with her fourth and fifth albums, Im Not Dead and Funhouse, with the latter containing her second United States number-one hit. Pink concluded the first decade of her career with the compilation album Greatest Hits, so Far. which featured Fuckin Perfect and the chart-topping single Raise Your Glass. In 2014 Pink recorded an album, Rose Ave. with Canadian musician Dallas Green under a folk music duo named You+Me. Recognized for her signature vocals and acrobatic performances, Pink has sold over 60 million albums worldwide. Her career accolades include three Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, a Daytime Emmy Award and six MTV Video Music Awards, in 2009, Billboard named Pink the Pop Songs Artist of the Decade. Pink was also the second most-played female solo artist in the United Kingdom during the 2000s decade, vH1 ranked her number 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music, while Billboard awarded her the Woman of the Year award in 2013. At the 63rd annual BMI Pop Awards, she received the BMI Presidents Award for her achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture. Alecia Beth Moore was born on September 8,1979, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to nurse Judy and insurance salesman Jim Moore and she has described her background as Irish-German-Lithuanian-Jew. Although a healthy baby at birth, she developed asthma that plagued her through her early years. Pink attended Central Bucks High School West, when Moore was a toddler, her parents began having marital problems, and before she was 10 her parents had divorced. Pink developed her voice early in life, in high school, Pink joined her first band, Middleground, but it disbanded upon losing a battle of the bands competition
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Pink performing live during
Truth About Love Tour in April 2013
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Pink in 2004
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Pink at a secret London performance to promote the Funhouse album, on November 4, 2008
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Pink performing "
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Funhouse (Pink album)
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Funhouse is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink, released by LaFace Records worldwide on October 24,2008. Funhouse has sold six million copies worldwide. Singles from the album include Sober, Please Dont Leave Me, Funhouse, I Dont Believe You, Glitter in the Air, Funhouse earned Pink three Grammy Award nominations and five MTV Video Music Award nominations. Pink has stated that album is her most vulnerable to date. Much of the subject matter alludes to the fact that Moore had recently separated from her husband. The first single, So What, opens with, I guess I just lost my husband/I dont know where he went, Please Dont Leave Me also addresses the split. The artist sums up its theme thus, Okay, I’m an asshole, in Mean, she sings, It was good in the beginning/but how did we get so mean. The song that Moore is the most proud of is Crystal Ball and she said about the track, I recorded it in one take and we didn’t mix it. It just went straight to master and it was all about a vibe and not about perfection or being polished. I just love that song and I loved recording it and she wrote the song with Billy Mann, who also aided her with the songs Stupid Girls, Dear Mr. President and Im Not Dead, among others. In Its All Your Fault, Pink blames her lover for giving her hopes of a love relationship and she proclaims in the lyrics I conjure up the thought of being gone, but I’d probably even do that wrong. In Glitter in the Air, Pink asks many questions such as, Have you ever looked fear in the face, and Have you ever hated yourself for staring at the phone. Pink admits, I still don’t have some of the answers to the questions I pose on this record, I’m still figuring it all out. The track Sober, which is the second single, was written by Pink at a party hosted at her home, where everyone was drunk or drinking except for her. She went to the beach and had a line in her head saying How do I feel so good sober, eventually it had nothing to do with alcohol but with identities. How do I feel so good with just me, without anyone to lean on, ave Mary A deals with world issues and problems. One Foot Wrong talks about a trip that went wrong. That song is also about losing control and how easy it is to lose the plot in life, originally, Pink wanted to call her album Heartbreak Is a Motherfucker, but her record label declined because of a fear that offensive language would affect sales
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LaFace Records
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LaFace Records was an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia that operated as a unit of Sony Music Entertainment and was historically a part of Bertelsmann Music Group from 1989 to 2004. It was most active and achieved its greatest commercial success during the 1990s and it was originally distributed by its co-creator Arista Records from 1989 through 2001, after which it was shuttered and absorbed into Arista. In 2004, the label was rebooted, and it began operating through Jive Records until both were absorbed into RCA Records in 2011, today, the labels back catalog and reissues are managed by Legacy Recordings. LaFace was formed in 1989 as a joint venture between the producing duo Antonio L. A. Reid & Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, and Arista Records, the combined nicknames of the duos successful production company inspired the name of the label. Towards the end of the decade LaFace produced fewer artists, while Babyface began to more on his own music career. The label was acquired completely by Arista and BMG in 1999, in 2001, L. A. Reid was appointed Chairman/CEO of Arista. As a result of Reids promotion, LaFace was dissolved as most of its prominent acts moved up to the main Arista label to continue to work under Reid. In 2004, after the restructuring of the BMG labels. Most of its roster had moved on to Arista returned to the company upon its reactivation. In 2011, LaFace was again shuttered, this time being absorbed into RCA Records, the following is a list of artists who have recorded for LaFace Records. L. A. Reid Babyface Daryl Simmons Kayo Dallas Austin Organized Noize List of record labels Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Max Martin
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Karl Martin Sandberg, better known as Max Martin, is a Swedish songwriter, record producer and singer. He rose to prominence in the half of the 1990s after making a string of major hits for artists such as the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears. Some of his hits include I Want It That Way. Baby One More Time. Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney, in 2016, Martin won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award for the sixth consecutive year and for the ninth time in his career. In early 2013 his single sales were tallied by The Hollywood Reporter to be at over 135 million, Sandberg was born in Stockholm, and grew up in Stenhamra, Ekerö Municipality, a suburb of Stockholm. As a child, Martin was a student of Swedens public music-education program, other alumni of the program include Andreas Carlsson, Rami Yacoub, and Anders Bagge, each of whom boasts a discography nearly as long and successful as Martins. As a teenager he sang in a variety of bands before joining a glam-style metal band called Its Alive in 1985 as their singer and its Alive were formed by ex-LAZY members Per Aldeheim and Kim Björkgren on guitars, and John Rosth who had been a member of Lineout. Martin eventually dropped out of school to pursue a career in music with his band under the nickname Martin White. In 1988 they participated in the national championships and played as the in-house band at a disco in Cyprus. The band got a breakthrough in 1991, as Dave Constable of Megarock Records offered them to make a demo-record, the later debut album was originally pressed in 1,000 copies and later on given away as a free cover tape in the UK by the Metal Forces magazine. The decision to focus on a music career paid off as they landed a deal on producer Denniz PoPs label Cheiron Records. After recording their second album Earthquake Visions, they released three singles in conjunction with the record and toured through Europe in 1994 supporting Kingdom Come, Earthquake Visions eventually sold a disappointing 30,000 copies, despite being released in as many as 30 countries. More importantly though, Martin also began collaborating on songs with PoP, recognizing a talent for writing pop songs in the young rocker, PoP renamed his new protégé Max Martin and eventually became Martins mentor. I didnt even know what a producer did, I spent two years–day and night–in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on, – Max Martin,19 March 2001. In 1993, Martin was hired by Cheiron Studios and spent some time learning the basics and they both worked on Ace of Bases second album, The Bridge, shortly thereafter, as well as on albums by 3T, Army of Lovers and Leila K. To date, The Bridge has sold more than six million copies worldwide, when Martin eventually left his band Its Alive in late 1995, he was replaced by Anders Jansson. In 1995, the Cheiron Studios was hired by Zomba to work on Backstreet Boys self-titled debut album Backstreet Boys, Zomba became the main working partner since the success in 1995. The album was not released in the U. S. until 1997 and this led to the Backstreet Boys being relaunched in their home country later on, this time more successfully
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Max Martin in March 2015.
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Alan Parsons in an
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Funhouse (song)
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Funhouse is the fifth single from American singer-songwriter Pinks fifth studio album of the same name. The track was written by P. nk, Jimmy Harry and it holds the title of the album and, just like most of the albums tracks, the song speaks about P. nks split with motocrossrider Carey Hart. Pink performed the song on September 16,2009 on the Jimmy Kimmel Live, Funhouse received acclaim from critics, being regarded as one of the musical and lyrical highlights of the album. Theres More Where That Came From gave the song an A- stating, Funhouse has the energy of So What but surpasses it half-way through, something we haven’t seen from Pink since Trouble back in 2003. The singer delivers with full force, colliding with lively guitar licks and hints of synth, Funhouse became Pinks 16th Top 10 single in Australia, climbing to a chart peak of number six on 2 August 2009. The song also became Pinks 5th consecutive #1 single on the Australian Airplay Chart, in New Zealand, the song debuted at number 18 on August 3,2009, becoming Pinks fifth consecutive top twenty hit from the Funhouse album. It has since peaked at number 15 and it also made its chart debut on the Turkey Top 20 Chart at number twenty-five. Funhouse first appeared on the UK Singles Chart on July 5,2009 at number 155 and it climbed 30 spots to 125 a week later. Also in the UK, the song has been added to the B List of the Radio 1 Playlist and it is expected to climb in the following weeks due to the physical release of the single. In the week of 4 August 2009, Funhouse debuted at the Dutch Top 40 at number 31, Funhouse debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at #80 and has risen to a peak of #21. The song was released on August 25,2009 in the U. S. and on the week ending October 3, the following week, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #97 and peaked at #44. The music video was directed by Dave Meyers and premiered on June 20,2009 in the United Kingdom on 4music at 11, Tony Kanal of No Doubt, also the co-writer and the producer of the song, appears in a cameo, playing a piano. The video takes place in a lot that is later shown to be whats left of a house that is still burning. There are evil clowns throughout the area who are picking though the rubble, the video begins as it pans low to the ground showing an Elvis grave briefly. Pink emerges from an old empty pool and begins to sing the first verse and she proceeds to kick over a toilet and picks up a framed photo. She passes a toaster and now it shows that she is in a fun house. She dances past a few evil clowns and it shows more of the burning remains of the building. She picks up a stick and throws it down, then an evil clown turns around and the camera has a close up of its face
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"Funhouse"
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Glitter in the Air
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Glitter in the Air is a song by American recording artist Pink from her fifth studio album, Funhouse. In 2010, it was released as the single in North America. Written by Pink and Billy Mann and Michele Mears, the song is a pop ballad with a piano accompaniment. Its lyrics talk about the power of love and taking a leap in faith, Glitter in the Air received mixed reviews from contemporary critics, some named it the best vocal performance of Funhouse, while others criticized it for being a cliché ballad. Glitter in the Air debuted at number 18 and 13 in the United States and Canada, in the United States, the song marked the first time Pink had five singles from one album chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was performed by Pink as part of her 2009 Funhouse Tour with her wearing a bodysuit. A similar version of performance was done at the 2010 Grammy Awards. A similar version of these performances was also performed on The Truth About Love Tour, Glitter in the Air is a pop ballad, co-written by Pink while produced by frequent collaborator Billy Mann. The song is similar to another ballad from Funhouse, I Dont Believe You. According to the music published at musicnotes. com by EMI Music Publishing, Glitter in the Air is composed in the key of F major. Pinks vocal range spans from the high-tone of B♭4 to the low-tone of F3, nekesa Mumbi Moody of the Associated Press commented that although the song did not display the power of Pink vocals, her voice is still potent, full of hurt and confusion that anyone can feel. The songs lyrics talk about the power of love and taking a leap in faith, evan Sawdey of PopMatters said the song reflect on lifes simple joys and simply savor them just for what they are. Its the sweetest moment on the disc, but it only succeeds because its also the least complex song here. Craig Emonds of The South End stated that every song has potential to do well and is quite likable, Pinks vocals are strong. Nekesa Mumbi Moodoy of the Associated Press said that What makes the song so moving is that all of the heartache, she doesnt appear gun-shy about taking the leap again. Justin Pacheco of The Good 5 Cent Cigar compared it to I Dont Believe You, saying, exemplifies the sappy ballad, Glitter in the Air is another big pop ballad along the same the same lines. He also added that the points of Funhouse were the four tracks produced by Max Martin. Glitter in the Air impacted radio as a new single by her record label, on February 11,2010, the song debuted at No.18 on the Billboard Hot 100, with sales over 114,000 units
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. As of February 2017, there are more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, as of April 2017, the website is ranked as the second most popular site in the world by Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis company. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day
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YouTube's headquarters as of 2010 in
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Common time
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The time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are to be contained in each bar and which note value is to be given one beat. A mid-score time signature, usually following a barline, indicates a change of meter. | Simple time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other, The lower numeral indicates the value that represents one beat. The upper numeral indicates how many beats there are grouped together in a bar. For instance,24 means two quarter-note beats per bar—38 means three eighth-note beats per bar, the most common simple time signatures are 24,34, and 44. The symbol is used for 44 time, also called common time or imperfect time. In modern notation, it is used in place of 22 and is called alla breve or, colloquially, in compound meter, subdivisions of the main beat are in three equal parts, so that a dotted note becomes the beat unit. Compound time signatures are named as if they were simple time signatures, in which the part of the beat unit is the beat. The lower number is most commonly an 8, as in 98 or 128,34 is a simple signature that represents three quarter notes. To the ear, a bar may seem like one singular beat, for example, a fast waltz, notated in 34 time, may be described as being one in a bar. Terms such as quadruple, quintuple, and so on are also occasionally used, as mentioned above, though the score indicates a 34 time, the actual beat division can be the whole bar, particularly at faster tempos. Correspondingly, at slow tempos the beat indicated by the time signature could in actual performance be divided into smaller units, on a formal mathematical level the time signatures of, e. g.34 and 38 are interchangeable. In a sense, all simple triple time signatures, such as 38,34,32, etc. —and all compound duple times, such as 68,616, a piece in 34 can be easily rewritten in 38, simply by halving the length of the notes. Other time signature rewritings are possible, most commonly a simple time signature with triplets translates into a compound meter, though formally interchangeable, for a composer or performing musician, different time signatures often have different connotations. First, a note value in the beat unit implies a more complex notation. Second, beaming affects the choice of actual beat divisions and it is, for example, more natural to use the quarter note/crotchet as a beat unit in 64 or 22 than the eight/quaver in 68 or 24. Third, time signatures are traditionally associated with different music styles—it might seem strange to notate a rock tune in 48 or 42. For all meters, the first beat is stressed, in time signatures with four groups in the bar
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A-flat major
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The A-flat major scale consists of the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats and its relative minor is F minor. Its parallel minor, A♭ minor, is replaced by G♯ minor, since A♭ minor. G♯ major, with eight sharps, including the F, has a similar problem, the same enharmonic situation occurs with the keys of D♭ major and C♯ minor, with C♯ major having seven sharps and D♭ minor having eight flats, including the B. It was used often by Franz Schubert, twenty-four of Frédéric Chopins piano pieces are in A-flat major. Since A-flat major was not often chosen as the key for orchestral works of the 18th century. For example, Beethovens Symphony No.5 in C minor has the set to C and G for the first movement. In Bruckners Symphony No.1 in C minor, however, charles-Marie Widor considered A-flat major to be the second best key for flute music. 127 and K.130, Haydns Hob XVI43 and 46 and it was also the flattest major key to be used for the preludes and fugues in Johann Sebastian Bachs Well-Tempered Klavier, as flatter major keys were notated as their enharmonic equivalents. Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner each wrote one piano concerto in A-flat, they had the horns and trumpet tuned to E-flat. Max Bruchs Concerto for Two Pianos in A-flat minor has its last movement in A-flat major, which is the parallel major, works for stringed instruments in this key include Antonín Dvořáks String Quartet No.14 and Benjamin Godards Violin Sonata No.4
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C (musical note)
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In terms of musical pitch, C or Do is the first note of the fixed-Do solfège scale. When the A440 pitch standard is used to tune a musical instrument, Middle C is designated C4 in scientific pitch notation because of the notes position as the fourth C key from left on a standard 88-key piano keyboard. Another system known as scientific pitch assigns a frequency of 256 Hz but, while numerically convenient, other note-octave systems, including those used by some makers of digital music keyboards, may refer to Middle C differently. In MIDI, Middle C is note number 60, the C4 designation is the most commonly recognized in auditory science, and in musical studies it is often used in place of the Helmholtz designation c. While the expression Middle C is generally clear across instruments and clefs, C4 may be called Low C by someone playing a Western concert flute, which has a higher and narrower playing range than the piano, while C5 would be Middle C. This technically inaccurate practice has led some pedagogues to encourage standardizing on C4 as the definitive Middle C in instructional materials across all instruments, in vocal music, the term Soprano C, sometimes called High C or Top C, is the C two octaves above Middle C. It is so named because it is considered the defining note of the voice type. It is C6 in scientific notation and c in Helmholtz notation. The term Tenor C is sometimes used in music to refer to C5. In organ music, the term Tenor C can refer to an organ builders term for small C or C3, in stoplists it usually means that a rank is not full compass, omitting the bottom octave. For the frequency of each note on a piano, see piano key frequencies. Pythagorean,701.955 ×12 =8423.46 =23.46 = B♯+++ ET,700 ×12 =8400 =0 = B♯ = C1200 ×7 =8400 =0 = C This difference,23.46 cents, is known as the Pythagorean comma. Piano key frequencies A440 C major C minor Root
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A chord progression or harmonic progression is a succession of musical chords. Chord progressions are the foundation of harmony in Western musical tradition, in tonal music, chord progressions have the function of establishing or contradicting a tonality. Chord progressions are usually expressed by Roman numerals, a chord may be built upon any note of a musical scale, therefore a seven-note scale allows seven basic chords, each degree of the scale becoming the root of its own chord. A chord built upon the note A is an A chord of some type The harmonic function of any particular chord depends on the context of the chord progression in which it is found. The diatonic harmonization of any major results in three major triads. They are based on the first, fourth, and fifth scale degrees and these three triads include, and therefore can harmonize, every note of that scale. The same scale also provides three relative minor chords, one related to each of the three major chords, separate from these six common chords there is one degree of the scale, the seventh, that results in a diminished chord. In addition, extra notes may be added to any chord, if these notes are also selected from the original scale the harmony remains diatonic. If new chromatic intervals are introduced then a change of scale or modulation occurs and this in turn may lead to a resolution back to the original key, so that the entire sequence of chords helps create an extended musical form. In western classical notation, chords built on the scale are numbered with Roman numerals, other forms of chord notation have been devised, from figured bass to the chord chart. These usually allow or even require an amount of improvisation. Diatonic scales such as the major and minor scales lend themselves well to the construction of common chords because they contain a large number of perfect fifths. Such scales predominate in those regions where harmony is an part of music, as, for example. Alternation between two chords may be thought of as the most basic chord progression, many well-known pieces are built harmonically upon the mere repetition of two chords of the same scale. The Isley Brothers Shout uses I - vi throughout, three-chord tunes, though, are more common, since a melody may then dwell on any note of the scale. They are often presented as successions of four chords, in order to produce a binary harmonic rhythm, often the chords may be selected to fit a pre-conceived melody, but just as often it is the progression itself that gives rise to the melody. (Common in Elizabethan music, this also underpins the American college song Goodnight Ladies, is the exclusive progression used in Kwela, similar progressions abound in African popular music. They may be varied by the addition of sevenths to any chord or by substitution of the minor of the IV chord to give, for example
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Beethoven imagined in the process of composing his
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IV-V-I progression in C Play (
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Blues progressions influenced a great deal of 20th century American popular music
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The Mills Brothers ' recording of "
Till Then " looked forward both to the end of World War II and to the popular music of the 1950s. (Courtesy of the Fraser MacPherson estate c/o Guy MacPherson)
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New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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A speech in the newsroom after announcement of
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Cee Lo Green,
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
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The
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Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Black and white
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Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts. Black-and-white images are not usually starkly contrasted black and white and they combine black and white in a continuum producing a range of shades of gray. Even when most studios had the capability to make color films they were not heavily utilized as using the Technicolor process was expensive, for the years 1940–1966, a separate Academy Award for Best Art Direction was given for black-and-white movies along with one for color. Television, Television program was first transmitted in black-and-white, scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the worlds first color television transmission on July 3,1928 using a mechanical process. Some color broadcasts in the US began in the 1950s, with color becoming common in industrialized nations during the late 1960s. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission settled on a color NTSC standard in 1953, color television became more widespread in the U. S. between 1963 and 1967, when the CBS and ABC networks joined NBC in broadcasting full color schedules. Canada began airing color television in 1966 while the United Kingdom began to use a different color system from July 1967 known as PAL. The Republic Of Ireland followed in 1970, in China, black and white television sets were the norm until as late as the 1990s, color TVs not outselling them until about 1989. While seldom used now, many consumer camcorders have the ability to record in black-and-white. Photography, Photographs were either black-and-white or shades of sepia, color photography was originally rare and expensive and again often containing inaccurate hues. Color photography became more common from the mid-20th century, Today, black-and-white is a niche market for photographers who use the medium for artistic purposes. This can take the form of film or digital conversion to grayscale. For amateur use certain companies such as Kodak manufactured black-and-white disposable cameras until 2009, also, certain films are produced today which give black-and-white images using the ubiquitous C41 color process. Printing press, Most American newspapers were black-and-white until the early 1980s, The New York Times, some claim that USA Today was the major impetus for the change to color. In the UK, color was only introduced from the mid-1980s. Even today, many newspapers restrict color photographs to the front, similarly, daily comic strips in newspapers were traditionally black-and-white with color reserved for Sunday strips. Sometimes color is reserved for the cover, magazines such as Jet magazine were either all or mostly black-and-white until the end of the 2000s when it became all-color. Manga are typically published in black-and-white although now it is part of its image, many school yearbooks are still entirely or mostly in black-and-white
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A black-and-white photo of a
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Black-and-white photography of Frankfurt central station
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Contemporary photo of a
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Jimmy Kimmel Live. is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and broadcast on ABC. The nightly hour-long show made its debut on January 26,2003, Jimmy Kimmel Live. is produced by Jackhole Productions in association with ABC Studios. Contrary to its name, Jimmy Kimmel Live, does not air live, instead, it is shot 4 p. m. Pacific Time on the day of broadcast. Until 2009, new episodes aired five nights a week, from 2009 to 2012, starting with the January 2013 move, the Friday episode had been retitled Jimmy Kimmel Live. This Week, which showed highlights from the week of shows. However, the show has reverted to airing a rebroadcast of a recent episode on Fridays. On April 14,2009 after the March sweeps break, the show began broadcasting in 720p high definition. The show began on January 26,2003, replacing Politically Incorrect, ABC had originally intended to give Jon Stewart his own late-night program following Nightline, but Kimmel was chosen instead. Jimmy Kimmel Live. is ABCs first attempt at a traditional late-night talk show since its attempt to revive The Dick Cavett Show in the 1980s, while Cavett was the longest-lasting and best remembered of these attempts, none seriously threatened the domination of the Tonight Show. As a result, in 2012, Nightline switched places on ABCs schedule with Jimmy Kimmel Live, despite its name, the show has not actually aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane. The shows house band is Cleto and the Cletones, led by saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III, like other talk shows with live bands, Cleto and the Cletones play the shows opening and closing themes and play into and out of commercial breaks. The shows opening theme was written by Les Pierce, Jonathan Kimmel and Cleto Escobedo III, the show originally had guest co-hosts each week who would sit at the desk with Kimmel and participate in skits and questioning each nights guests. The show also featured guest announcers, until comedian Andy Milonakis took over as the announcer from late 2003 to 2004. He would also appear in comedy bits for the show, then in 2004, Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett took over as the shows announcer when the Bosstones went on hiatus. The band has become active again, and performed live on the show in 2009. Francis Uncle Frank Potenza, Kimmels real-life uncle, served as a security guard for the show and he was a New York City police officer and a personal security guard for Frank Sinatra. Potenza did not appear regularly from December 2009 through March 2010, however, he later returned as a semi-regular. Potenza died on August 23,2011, at the age of 77, Guillermo Rodriguez is the parking lot security guard for the show, and frequently serves as a celebrity gossip correspondent in a segment called Guillermos Hollywood Round-Up
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The Oprah Winfrey Show
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The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8,1986 to May 25,2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated talk show in American television history, the show has been highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey has used the show as a platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments. Oprah is one of the daytime television tabloid talk shows in history. The show received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards before Winfrey chose to stop submitting it for consideration in 2000, in 2002, TV Guide ranked it at #49 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, they ranked it as the 19th greatest TV show of all time, the show has its roots in A. M. Chicago, a morning talk show airing on WLS-TV, an ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago. Winfrey took over as host on January 2,1984 and, within a month, for the premiere, the shows producers tried rigorously to book Miami Vices Don Johnson as the first guest, even trying to bribe him with Dom Pérignon and a pair of rhinestone sunglasses. All attempts to book Johnson failed and Winfrey decided to do what we do best, the topic for the premiere show was How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice. Early in the 12th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey confessed she was exhausted and considered quitting. However, while making the 1998 movie Beloved, Winfrey then admitted that it brought her back to her responsibility as a black woman with a great deal of power. She realized that being in such a position within the media industry, Winfrey was once again inspired to continue to help people take better control of their destinies, hence her slogan, Live Your Best Life. In the midst of doing Beloved, in a 2008 interview with Larry King, Winfrey announced that in 2011, although there would be a full season of her shows in that year, she would not renew her contract, thus ending the show. Winfrey interviewed a plethora of public figures and everyday people during the shows 25-year history, Winfrey claims her worst interviewing experience was with Elizabeth Taylor in the shows second season. Just before the interview, Taylor asked Winfrey not to ask any questions about her relationships, Winfrey found this to be a challenge considering Taylor had been married seven times. Taylor returned to the show in 1992, apologized to Winfrey and told her that she was in excruciating back, on February 10,1993, Winfrey sat down with Michael Jackson for what would become the most-watched interview in television history. Jackson, a private entertainer, had not given an interview in 14 years. The event was broadcast live from Jacksons Neverland Ranch and was watched by 90 million people worldwide, Jackson discussed missing out on a normal childhood and his strained relationship with his father, Joe Jackson
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Winfrey on the first national broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Tom Cruise jumps on the couch during the taping of an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Two hundred men who were molested stand together during a 2010 episode
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Funhouse Tour
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The Funhouse Tour was the fourth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Pink. The tour supported her studio album, Funhouse. The tour visited Europe, Australia and North America, according to Pollstar, the Funhouse Tour earned around $150 million with more than 1.5 million in attendance becoming one of the highest-grossing concert tours in the history of music. The Australian leg of the broke the record for the biggest tour in the history of the country. Over 660,000 people attended the Australian shows and grossed over $80 million, the tour was announced on October 14,2008, nearly two weeks before the release of her fifth studio album. Pink stated, Im so excited to get back on the road, the Funhouse tour ideas are running rampant in my head. Who knows what theyll come out as, the tour followed her internationally successful Im Not Dead Tour, which became one of the biggest tours in 2006 and 2007. The tour also marked the first time Pink has headlined a North American arena tour, to describe the event, Pink stated, Ive waited 30 years for this tour. I really wasnt sure if anyone was going to show, the concert starts with a video introduction which feature Pink watching TV. She then gets up and puts her lovers hand into a glass of water. She goes upstairs and gets changed into a shirt and some jeans. She gets on a motorcycle and rides off, resembling her Funhouse music video and she finds a clown crying on the side of the road. She gets off her bike and gives him a flower hat, as the video ends, the clown appears on stage. He walks up to the end of the catwalk and finds a Box with a handle, as he turns the handle, a trapdoor opens, and Pink is lifted up into the air on a rope. The song Bad Influence then starts and she gets lowered down onto the main stage and starts to sing. She then sings Just Like a Pill, Who Knew, Ave Mary A, at some shows, Pink might perform Its All Your Fault after Just Like A Pill. A red couch appears on the stage and Pink is seen walking over to it and she then starts to sing I Touch Myself. Whilst singing I Touch Myself, hands out of the couch and touch her
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Pink during her Funhouse Tour in Düsseldorf on 28 November 2009.
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ARIA Charts
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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia, ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australias national charts since 1974. The Go-Set charts were Australias first national singles and albums charts published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974, succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australias national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data, in mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists compilation albums were included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989. The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990, the printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000, the ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic. Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale. In March 1991, Do the Bartman by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only. Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, in 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after an absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006. The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts, top 40 digital tracks chart, the ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically, on 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3, the show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6,00 pm. The charts were published online at 6,00 pm each Sunday. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments, for music DVDs, a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped. co. uk
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Dutch Top 40
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The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40. It started as a program titled Veronica Top 40, on the offshore station Radio Veronica in 1965. It remained The Veronica Top 40 until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting, joost den Draaijer was the initiator of the top 40 in the Netherlands. On January 2,1965, the first Top 40 was compiled, in 1974, the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40 bought the Top 40 and named it De Nederlandse Top 40. Currently, Radio 538 is airing the Dutch Top 40 on radio, jeroen Nieuwenhuize presents the program every Friday afternoon from 14.00 until 18.00. As of February 2014 the chart is a combination of airplay, streaming, the more often a song gets played on the radio, the higher its place in the Top 40. For year end chart positions, #1 position gets 40 points and this way you just count up all numbers and sort them from most points till least points. There is a set of rules, of some have existed since 1972. Some of these have been criticised as a hindrance, singles must remain minimal two weeks in the chart. If a single officially no longer belongs in the top 40, example, Missy Elliotts Lose Control, Remained two weeks on #40 in the chart, because it did not sell enough and also wasnt played enough on the radio. Singles that highly change position upwards are noted as having superstip status and these singles are not allowed to fall down in chart position the following week. Recent example, Guus Meeuwis Ik Wil Dat Ons Land Juicht, The song entered the chart at #11, the following week it was meant to drop in chart position, but remained on the #5 position. The following two weeks, it went from #5 to #39, because of this rule, this single is the biggest fall down in the Dutch Top 40. However this is not always the case, sometimes singles with a superstip do drop for some reason Re-entry only takes place when the single re-enters within the top 30, if differently, these re-entried singles are ignored. Example, Racoon recently re-entered the Dutch Top 40 at #31 though with the song Love You More, singles with double A-side are noted separately in the top 40, due the different number of airplay the two songs get. Example, Robbie Williams first single off his 2005 album Intensive Care was Tripping with the B-side being Make Me Pure, while Tripping topped the chart by peaking at #1, Make Me Pure peaked at #15 in the Top 40. This is a listing of significant achievements and milestones based upon the Dutch Top 40 charts. & Pharrell Williams — Blurred Lines Avicii — Wake Me Up Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne — Rather Be OMI — Cheerleader 10 weeks Heintje — Ich bau dir ein Schloß4 Non Blondes — Whats Up
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Hans Breukhoven and Lex Harding celebrating a printed edition of the Dutch Top 40 in 2005
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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AirPlay is a proprietary protocol stack/suite developed by Apple Inc. that allows wireless streaming between devices of audio, video, device screens, and photos, together with related metadata. Originally implemented only in Apples software and devices, it was called AirTunes, there are two types of AirPlay devices, those that send audiovisual content, and those capable of receiving the content and rendering it on displays and speakers. AirPlay sender devices include computers running iTunes, and iOS devices such as iPhones, iPods, OS X Mountain Lion supports display mirroring via AirPlay on systems containing 2nd generation Intel Core processors or later. There are third party such as AirFoil. In 2016 HTC released an Android phone with Apple AirPlay streaming, as of iOS4.3, third-party apps may send compatible audio and video streams over AirPlay. The iTunes Remote app on iOS can be used to control media playback, AirPlay receiver devices include AirPort Express, Apple TV, and third party speakers. With the open source implementations of the AirPlay protocol any computer can now be turned into an AirPlay receiver, on Apple TV starting with firmware 6.0, the FairPlay encryption scheme is enforced and sending devices not supporting it cannot be used. Song titles, artists, album names, elapsed and remaining time, often these receivers are built to only support the audio component of AirPlay, much like AirTunes. There are third party such as AirServer, Reflector 2, Kodi. The AirTunes part of the AirPlay protocol stack uses UDP for streaming audio and is based on the RTSP network control protocol. The streams are transcoded using the Apple Lossless codec with 44100 Hz and 2 channels encrypted with AES, the stream is buffered for approximately 2 seconds before playback begins, resulting in a small delay before audio is output after starting an AirPlay stream. The protocol supports metadata packets that determine the output volume on the receiving end. It also makes possible the streaming of one source to multiple targets each with its own volume control, the AirPort Express streaming media capabilities use Apples Remote Audio Output Protocol, a proprietary variant of RTSP/RTP. Using WDS-bridging, the AirPort Express can allow AirPlay functionality across a distance in a mixed environment of wired. AirPlay Mirroring is a different technology that allows specific content to be broadcast from a variety of iOS devices and iTunes to a second generation Apple TV. The exact composition of the protocols that AirPlay Mirroring uses have not yet fully been discovered, however, an unofficial AirPlay protocol specification is available. A 2nd generation or later Apple TV is required, and supported hardware includes the iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, when the protocol was known as AirTunes, it was reverse-engineered by Jon Lech Johansen in 2004. On April 8,2011, James Laird reverse-engineered and released the private key used by the Apple AirPort Express to decrypt incoming audio streams
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Alfred Music Publishing
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Alfred Music is a music publishing company. Founded in New York in 1922, it is headquartered in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, with branches in Miami, New York, Australia, Germany, Singapore. The company was founded in New York by composer and musician Albert Joseph Piantadosi in 1922, when clarinetist and pianist Morty Manus began working for his fathers company in the 1950s, he began focusing company efforts on the education market. In 1975, the moved to larger offices in Los Angeles. In 1980, with growing sales, the company went international, in 2002, the company partnered with Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, and in 2005 it acquired Warner Bros. Publications from the Warner Music Group, again expanding its business, Alfred Music was acquired by Peaksware Holdings, LLC in 2016. Behind the Player is a series of DVDs from Alfred Music Publishing, consisting of conversations with, Alfred Publishing Morton and Iris Manus NAMM Oral History Program Ron Manus Interview NAMM Oral History Program Steven Raft Interview NAMM Oral History Program
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Official Charts Company
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The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association. Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then the OCC have compiled the official charts, prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. All of the OCCs charts are published weekly on Friday nights, from 3 August 1969 until 5 July 2015, the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday. Genre-specific charts include UK Dance Chart, UK Indie Chart, UK R&B Chart, UK Rock Chart, the Scottish Singles and Albums Charts ― and the former Welsh Singles and Albums Chart ― appears in listings within the Official Charts Company. It is a regional listing reflecting how sales towards the UK Singles Chart, the Welsh Singles and Album Chart served the same purpose in Wales. It also charts the UK DVD Chart and UK Budget Album Chart, while their music charts are now Friday to Thursday, their video charts remain Sunday to Saturday. On 5 September 2008, the Official UK Charts Company rebranded itself as the Official Charts Company and it later dropped the word Company and became just Official Charts. From May 2012, a new chart was launched – the Official Streaming Chart and this counts audio streams from streaming services Spotify, Deezer, Blinkbox Music, Napster, amongst others. In April 2015, the UKs first vinyl record chart was launched by the Official Charts Company due to the surge of interest in the sector. The chart was launched following the growth of the sector in the UK for the year in a row. Beginning in 2017 the Official Charts Company changed its methodology for calculating the Top 40, prior to January 2017,100 streams counted as one sale of a song. From January onward, the ratio became 150,1, UK Albums Chart UK Singles Chart UK Video Charts UK Singles Downloads Chart UK Album Downloads Chart British Phonographic Industry Official Charts Company website
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Pink discography
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American singer and songwriter Pink has released six studio albums, three live albums, five compilation albums, thirty four singles, and thirty three music videos. In 2000, she released her studio album, Cant Take Me Home. It has sold four million worldwide and yielded three singles, There You Go, Most Girls, and You Make Me Sick. A year later, Pink recorded the Moulin Rouge, version of Lady Marmalade with Christina Aguilera, Mýa, and Lil Kim. Later that year, Pink released her studio album, Missundaztood. The record was promoted by four singles, Get the Party Started, Dont Let Me Get Me, Just Like a Pill, in 2003, Pink released her third studio album, Try This. The album was her least successful album, having sold 3 million units worldwide and its single releases include Trouble, God Is a DJ, and Last to Know. Her fourth studio album, Im Not Dead, was released in 2006 and it generated seven singles, including top ten singles Stupid Girls, U + Ur Hand, and Who Knew. Pinks fifth album, Funhouse, sold seven million copies worldwide and charted at number one in several countries, including Australia, the Netherlands. It includes her second one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, Pink released her first greatest hits album, Greatest Hits and it produced two top ten hit singles, Raise Your Glass and Fuckin Perfect. Her sixth album, The Truth About Love, was released in 2012 and produced six singles, Blow Me, Try, Just Give Me a Reason, True Love, Walk of Shame, Pink has sold over 47 million albums and 84 million singles worldwide. In the United States, she has sold over 16 million albums, list of best-selling albums in Australia You+Me duo with Dallas Green General Specific Official website P. NK discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs P. nk at Musicbrainz
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There You Go
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There You Go is a song co-written and performed by American singer-songwriter Pink. It was her single from her debut album Cant Take Me Home. The song peaked at seven on the Billboard Hot 100. There You Go was written by Pink, Kevin Shekspere Briggs and it was also produced by Shekspere. The song is about a relationship that Pink has ended, rob Brunner compared, Briggss There You Go is remarkably similar to his hits for Destinys Child and TLC but minus the vocal interplay that gives those tunes their punch. MTV Asia wrote that song is an edgy cut that haves all that it takes to top the charts. Complex magazine named it the 11th best R&B song by a singer in 2000s. In the music video, Pinks ex-boyfriend calls her asking for a ride, Pink hops on a motorcycle and rides to the top of a parking structure overlooking her exs apartment, where she calls him on her cell. She then accelerates her motorcycle, jumps off at the last second, Pink then jumps into a car driven by a new guy, giving her ex the middle finger as they drive off. Entertainment Weekly described the video with the following, In the video for There You Go — her smash single — the piqued Pink freaks, sending a motorcycle crashing into Floyds fab bachelor pad
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You Make Me Sick
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You Make Me Sick is a song by American recording artist Pink. It was written by Brainz Dimilo, Anthony President, and Mark Tabb for her album Cant Take Me Home, while production was helmed by Dimilo, Presiden, the contemporary R&B song was released as third and final single from her album. A moderate chart success, it peaked at number thirty-three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the UK Singles Chart. The accompanying music video for You Make Me Sick was filmed in late 2000 and directed by Dave Meyers, the song had top ten success in the UK, reaching number 9, and in New Zealand, reaching number 10. It peaked at number 25 in Australia, where it sold over 35,000 copies and was accredited Gold
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Missundaztood
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Missundaztood is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink. The albums singles received positive reviews critics and fans alike. They include the global chart-topper Get the Party Started and hit singles Dont Let Me Get Me, the albums final single was Family Portrait, a vulnerable R&B anthem that Pink wrote about her parents separation. That song became a worldwide Top 20 hit, peaking at #18 on the Hot 100, the album became Pinks biggest to date and became one of the most successful albums of the 2000s with over 15 million in worldwide sales. This album is different from Cant Take Me Home as it leads toward pop and she recruited 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry to help her with writing a new album. According to Pink in VH1s Driven she left a message on Perrys answering machine after finding her number in make-up artist Billy Bs phone book, saying she wanted to write with her. She stated that the reason she wanted to work with Perry was that 4 Non Blondes album, Bigger, Better, Faster, Pink worked with Perry on most of the songs of the album, who also contributed guest vocals on Lonely Girl. Other guest vocals are provided by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi on Misery, other writers that worked on the album are Scott Storch and Dallas Austin. Different subjects are touched upon on Missundaztood, in Dont Let Me Get Me she tackles teenage angst and Just like a Pill she describes her drug abuse as a teenager. Pinks father was sent to serve in the Vietnam war which made such an impression on her that she used the stories of her father in the song My Vietnam, towards the end of the song is a sonic interpolation of Jimi Hendrixs Star Spangled Banner. Family Portrait tackles divorce and its effects, according to VH1s Driven, Antonio LA Reid of LaFace Records wasnt initially content with the new music Pink was making, because she had made a name for herself with her successful R&B debut. At the 2003 Grammy Awards Missundaztood was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, Get the Party Started won in the categories Best Female Video and Best Dance Video. Many of the songs on the album contain strong language, however, the album was censored in order to avoid a Parental Advisory sticker. No uncensored studio versions of 18 Wheeler exist, but Pink performs the song uncensored while on tour, the second version released was the main album reissued, but without the enhanced CD portion. A third version, which was an edition that included a bonus DVD was released for a limited time in 2002. Both the limited edition with the bonus DVD and the enhanced CD versions have gone out of print. It was released outside the US with a track, Catch 22. Also, on current pressings of the album, the track Misery is slightly different, on current pressings, Steven Tyler sings an entire verse as opposed to a providing only few lines and background vocals
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Get the Party Started
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Get the Party Started is a song by American recording artist Pink, and was the first single from her second album titled Missundaztood. It became a hit and reached the top ten in many countries. The song was Pinks biggest-selling song at that time, the track was released on October 9,2001 to positive reviews from critics and after the release of the single it was confirmed that Pink would be releasing Missundaztood. The song was composed by former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman, Linda Perry and she said that the process of making the song was so unlike me, according to her, she was going through a weird phase during which she wanted to learn how to program drums. She programmed her first beat, picked up a bass guitar and she decided to put every wrong instrument in the song, and consequently acquired a horn sample. I was doing the music, the melody was already coming to me in what I wanted the song to be, she said. She finished the song by including in the song every catch phrase you possibly could imagine, before laughing at the realization that she had written a hit single. You create something in your bedroom or your house, and its just a fun thing that youre doing, then all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and its on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it, the song reached number four on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 on December 29,2001, becoming one of Pinks biggest solo hits in the U. S. It peaked at two in the UK, where it was narrowly denied the top spot by the posthumous release of George Harrisons My Sweet Lord. Get the Party Started was certified gold in Australia, Austria, Germany, France Sweden and Switzerland, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003 in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, which it lost to Norah Joness Dont Know Why. It won the award for Favorite Song at the Kids Choice Awards of 2002, in December, the song was listed as number 81 on Rolling Stones Top Songs of the 2000s. Allmusic highlighted the song and added, This record bubbles over with imagination, jim Farber was favorable, The single Get the Party Started has the tricky synth hook of a perfect new-wave hit from the 80s. NME magazine was positive, displays the kind of clod-hopping attention-seeking on single Get The Party Started that makes you assume youre listening to a Geri Halliwell record. Jason Thompson described this song and praised, the dance inducing “Get the Party Started”, again, even this isn’t really in the mold of current dance tracks. Instead, it more like the kinds of grooves that were coming out in the early Nineties. In fact, it sounds a little like Apollo Smile who had an album out back in ‘91 or so, “Get The Party Started” also echoes the good time vibe that other hits like Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is in the Heart” had that won over many fans. This track should do just the same thing, slant Magazine called this song retro-dipped dance-pop
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Just Like a Pill
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Just Like a Pill is a song by American singer Pink. It was written and produced by Dallas Austin and Pink for her studio album. The lyrics of the deal with getting out of painful relationships. The song was released worldwide as the single from Missundaztood in June 2002 and was a commercial success. It also performed internationally, becoming her second number-one single in the United Kingdom and reaching the top 10 in, amongst other countries, Ireland, France. Just Like a Pill was written by Pink and Dallas Austin, Pink said in an interview that the song shows part of who I am, referring to her documented problems with drugs. The song was well received by contemporary music critics. NME called it the third best track off her killer last album. Drowned In Sounds Robert Luckett commented that it is a fascinating record. this is a record with a edge and he also wrote it obeys the pop industrys well-dusted rules for a hit. Stylus Magazines Todd Burns, in his review of the album, compared Just Like a Pill to the singles from the album, Dont Let Me Get Me and Get the Party Started. Sound much more integrated into the work and the song works far better. The song was shortlisted by Digital Spy as a nominee for the best single of 2002, finishing third in the vote to Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way and it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. In Australia, the song was a radio single, in hopes of rising album sales. Although it was a #1 radio hit, a release never eventuated. In late June 2009, the song charted at #97 on downloads, the video for Just Like a Pill was directed by Francis Lawrence for LaFace Records. The video, shot in December 2001, is different from Pinks previous videos. Commenting on the different style of video, Pink said, This ones very dark and artsy, and I have black hair and its another part that I havent concentrated on before. In the first scene, Pink lies on the floor, in the chorus she sings in front of her band
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Family Portrait (song)
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Family Portrait is a song written and composed by Pink and Scott Storch for Pinks second album Missundaztood. The song is about relationships and her family that was about to fall to pieces and it was released as the albums fourth and final single in December 2002. It peaked in the top 20 in both the U. K. and U. S, Family Portrait is composed in the key of C minor. It is written in time and moves at a moderate 88 beats per minute. The song is divided into four-measure phrases with a chord progression. Pink told Q magazine that the song got her into trouble with her mother, the singer commented, She went to the National Enquirer. We laugh about it now, but it wasnt the best way to family problems. The single received positive reviews from the critics, paul Matthew from UKMIX gave the song 4 out of 5 stars, saying that it is strong, catchy and different from anything she had released to date. Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen praised the songs stripped down nature, the haunting, yet urgently importuning nature of the music matches and magnifies the meaning. The intensity of every earnest guitar strum and run echoes the sense of longing for familial harmony expressed in the chorus, Pinks voice on “Family Portrait” further reflects the urgency underlying the song. According to Pinks father, James Moore Jr. during an E. Entertainments E and it took me a while to listen to Family Portrait without getting emotional, Pinks mother told E. Although the song addresses how Pink struggled through her parentss divorce, it is addressed to kids. Official Family Portrait music video on YouTube
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Try This
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Try This is the third studio album by recording artist Pink. It was released on November 11,2003 and it featured the singles Trouble, which earned P. nk a Grammy Award, God Is a DJ and Last to Know. Try This was certified platinum by the RIAA, despite it becoming P. nks lowest selling album, most of the tracks were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong, whom Pink met through a mutual friend at a Transplants video shoot. The two hit it off and Pink ended up co-writing ten songs with him in a week when Transplants were on a tour with the Foo Fighters. Eight of these appeared on Try This, which also features three songs written with Linda Perry, who co-wrote much of Missundaztood, Pinks second album. The album includes a collaboration with electroclash artist Peaches, Oh My God, Try This was Pinks final studio album under Arista Records. In 2006, Pink said that she was unhappy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of M. ssundaztood, I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one, she said. I was going, You want a record, fine, Ill write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin record and you can press it up and put it out. She described the campaign for the album as an awful time. I was walking out of half my interviews crying, I just felt they were putting a quarter in the slot to watch the monkey dance. The album received positive reviews from critics with an average Metacritic rating of 71. Entertainment Weekly gave the album a review and called it A hooky. Try This debuted at nine on the U. S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 147,000 copies. The album also reached the top ten on charts in the UK, Canada. As of March 2007, it had sold 719,000 copies in the U. S. according to Nielsen SoundScan, Try This re-entered the Australian album chart in June 2009. S. In 2003, Catch Me While Im Sleeping was issued as a single in the U. S. in the same period. Follow-up single God Is a DJ failed to chart on the Hot 100, a third single, Last to Know, was released exclusively in Europe and peaked at 21 in the UK. Pink embarked on the Try This Tour in Europe during 2004, Trouble was used in the films White Chicks and Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous, and God Is a DJ was featured in the film Mean Girls
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Trouble (Pink song)
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Trouble is a song recorded by American musician Pink for her third studio album Try This. It was written by Tim Armstrong and Pink and features a prominent guitar riff, the song was released as the albums first single in North America and second international single. It was moderately successful, its highest peak on the Canadian Singles Chart at #2. The single peaked at #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #7 on the UK Singles Chart, the song won Pink a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 2004. The song was featured in the films White Chicks, The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement and Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and television series, Smallville, ER, and Psych. It is also featured in the trailers for Tangled, One for the Money and it is also featured in the video game Donkey Konga 2. In 2012, Armstrong would finally record the song himself under the name Tim Timebomb, Trouble has received positive reviews from critics. Allmusic highlighted the song and noted that the similarities of Trouble, the Guardian wasnt that positive at all, Trouble blusters crossly, without ever revealing what the matter is, a state of affairs not helped by its clumsy phraseology. If you see me coming down the street, she snarls, you know its time to go - well, im trouble, yeah, trouble now/Im trouble, yall, I disturb my town, she brags in Trouble. Sal Cinquemani wrote, The stiff-wristed herky-jerky first chords of the opening song, Trouble. The repetitive hook of the raucous Trouble, one of 10 new tracks co-written and produced by Rancids Tim Armstrong, wears a bit thin, stylus magazine was favorable, Try This opens with “Trouble”, the first of eight tracks on the album co-helmed by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong. Vacillating subtly between soulful and snotty, Pinks voice speaks more to her conflicts as an artist than as the daughter, the songs music video is western-themed. It was directed by Sophie Muller, the video opens with Pink galloping with speed through a forested area while checking over her shoulder indicating that she is possibly being pursued. She rides her horse until she pauses at the edge of a town which is called Sharktown. The town is depicted as a place and even a tumble weed blowing down the street is seen. She then looks down and sees a grave marker which bears the name Corky. She checks her make up briefly in a compact and proceeds to ride deeper into the town. There is an establishing shot of Pink as she moves through the main street
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God Is a DJ (Pink song)
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God Is a DJ is the second single in North America and third international single by American singer Pink from her third album, Try This. It is about letting go, loving life and living it to the fullest and it features the metaphorical phrase If God is a DJ/Life is a dance floor/Love is a rhythm/You are the music. It peaked at six in the Dutch Top 40 and number eleven on the UK Singles Chart. The song appears on the soundtrack of the 2004 film Mean Girls, allMusic highlighted the song and added that the echoes of Blurs Pressure on Julian on God Is a DJ are surely coincidental. David Browne wasnt positive, we could have done without the dreadful dance-rock cheeseball God Is a DJ, rolling Stone wasnt either, rehashes familiar themes in God Is a DJ, Ive been the girl, middle finger in the air. Tell us something we dont know, Pink, clem Bastow panned the song by noting that God Is a DJ is an attempt, unsuccessfully, to recapture some of P. nks early-career spunk. The Village Voice praised the song, If God were a DJ and they didnt call it the Paradise Garage for nothin. I ask because God Is a DJ, the obvious and at one time actual choice for lead single off Pinks third album, Try This, goes, If God is a DJ/Life is a dance floor/Love is a rhythm/You are the music. Grandiosity aside—whats Art, then, waving glow sticks. —God Is a DJ provides excellent philosophical underpinning for Pinks greatest hit, after, the same critic added, Pink revisits her recent career in God Is a DJ, a big-chorused, fast-funk bass-lined spaz-out not written with Armstrong. Loving Mom, hating Dad, pulling her skirt up, sticking her tongue out—its all here, and it winds up with, Look for nirvana/Under the strobe light. No, not Nirvana, though that comparison flashed before my eyes—before the new Hole was pushed back past Courtneys next court date, I intended to review the two albums together. But it was another major rock chick, Tim Armstrong ex Brody Dalle, who put out the disc of the year. Dan Leroy was favorable, too, But if God Is A DJ, hell put that piece of punky disco perfection, the music video for this song features scenes of Pink and others getting dressed, having fun on a subway, and going to a nightclub. Pink then continues to bribe the bouncer to enter the nightclub ahead of the queue, the video debuted on MTVs Total Request Live at number ten on January 22,2004 and peaked at number six. It is shown from the 2004 film, Mean Girls
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Last to Know
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Last to Know is a song by American recording artist Pink. It was written by her and producer Tim Armstrong for her studio album Try This. The track was released in parts of Europe as a single in 2004, peaking just outside the top twenty in the Netherlands. In Austria and Switzerland the single peaked inside the top fifty, in places such as Australia, the song was released to radio and digital download but never had a physical single release. The promotional music video for Last to Know consists of a montage of shots from some of Pinks concerts during her Try This Tour in Europe, a proper video was scheduled to be filmed, but the plan was scrapped after the album sales began to decrease. This video was supposed to be used to promote the DVD Live in Europe, the video, directed by Russell Thomas with footage of the concerts in the Netherlands and London shows Pink performing the song with her lipstick going onto her microphone. Other clips from the show are shown like 18 Wheeler, Oh My God, Welcome To The Jungle, Eventually, Split Personality. UK CD Single Last to Know -4,30 Last to Know -5,30 European CD Single Last to Know God Is a DJ God Is a DJ God Is a DJ Last to Know
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Humble Neighborhoods
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Humble Neighborhoods is a song from American singer P. nks third studio album Try This, written by Pink and Tim Armstrong. Lyrically, the song speaks about living the life and traveling the world. The song was welcomed to mostly positive reviews, critics praising its anthematic chants and rebelious vibe. The song was released as the first promotional single from the album in the UK in November 2003, the radio edit of the track does not appear on any other P. nk release. Humble Neighborhoods -3,22 Humble Neighborhoods -3,52
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Feel Good Time
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Feel Good Time is a song by Pink featuring William Orbit. It was released as the single on the international edition of her third studio album Try This. It was later used on the soundtrack of the 2003 film Charlies Angels, the single peaked at number sixty on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart, and has been certified gold by the ARIA. The song was written by and recorded by Beck and William Orbit with the intention of being a Beck track. Becks vocals and a guitar were removed and replaced with Pinks vocals, becks original was later posted on Orbits website. Feel Good Time uses audio samples from Fresh-Garbage by Spirit, Feel Good Time was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Nancy and the Boys covered Feel Good Time on the 2003 happy hardcore compilation album Speed SFX
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Stupid Girls
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Stupid Girls is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Pink from her fourth studio album Im Not Dead. It was released in February 2006 as the first single from her studio album by LaFace Records. The song marked Pinks return to LaFace Records under Zomba Label Group via Sony BMG, Stupid Girls was written by Pink, Billy Mann, Niklas Olovson, and Robin Mortensen Lynch, Mann and MachoPsycho both produced the track. Recorded in 2005, the song introduces a more provocative, feminist, the song was well received by critics for its sound, its lyrical content, and that it was sexy. According to Zomba, over eight million people downloaded the video immediately after it was available online, the song was a moderate success in the United States, reaching the position of thirteen and the top forty on its component charts. A music video was filmed and premiered on MTVs Overdrive in January 2006 and it features Pink as a variety of roles, both as an angel and a demon, variety of celebrities, a random woman getting plastic surgery, a lady with a purging disorder, and others. The song earned Pink a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards, written in the key of E minor, Stupid Girls lyrically condemns sexism and promotes intelligence in women and girls. The single entered the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the week of February 25 at number twenty-four, the weeks highest debut and the highest debut of Pinks career. In the week of March 4, it climbed to number thirteen, becoming Pinks eighth top twenty single in the United States and its peak on the Top 40 Mainstream airplay chart, however, did not match that of most of her previous singles. Stupid Girls remained on the Hot 100 for sixteen weeks, and it reached the top twenty on the Pop 100 and it received airplay in nightclubs, peaking inside the top twenty on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Stupid Girls was certified Gold by RIAA on February 13,2008 and it was ranked number thirty-ninth on ARIAs top 100 singles of 2006 list. It also peaked at four on the UK Singles Chart. It reached the top ten in most countries in Europe, Stupid Girls was nominated in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards. The single was praised by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling on her official website and she wrote, Stupid Girls, is the antidote-anthem for everything I had been thinking about women and thinness. About. com praised the song and highlighted it, she has rarely been as pointed in her views as in the hit Stupid Girls Stupid Girls is musically a dance/hip hop gem. Allmusic praised her delivery when shes taunting and teasing this song, entertainment Weekly noted that this song has some verve. The Guardian was less positive noting that her vocals are superficial as the starlets she attacks, LA Times wrote that this song fuses many genres greatly and called it hilarious feminist romp. Jon Pareles was favorable, the pop-reggae of Stupid Girls snidely dismisses the bimbos she sees everywhere, popMatters was positive, On Stupid Girlz, she rails against the idea that women have to choose between being smart and being sexy, as if the two are mutually exclusive
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Who Knew is a song by American singer-songwriter Pink from her fourth studio album Im Not Dead. Written by Pink, Max Martin and Dr. Luke, the song was released on May 18,2006 by LaFace Records to radio as the albums second commercial single. After the success of U + Ur Hand, the song was later successfully re-released in June 2007 as the fourth single in the United States. Musically, Who Knew is a pop song, which contains minor elements of ballad. Lyrically, it is regarding the loss of a friend of hers. Upon its release, Who Knew was well received by music critics, the song faced comparisons for having similarities with Kelly Clarksons 2004 single Since U Been Gone. The song was successful worldwide, where it peaked in the top spot in countries including Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary. In addition, the song is also Pinks longest chart runner on the Hot 100, who Knew became one of the songs that helped propel Pinks popularity in the USA, following her decline between 2003 and 2005. The song was later certified Platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song has been performed on many of Pinks world tours, including Im Not Dead Tour, Funhouse Tour and its extension tour Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour. As her personal favorite, the song was included in Pinks debut compilation album Greatest Hits. The NY Daily quotes Pink as writing the song to a friend she lost to drug abuse. Who Knew was written by Pink, Max Martin and Dr. Luke, while it was produced by Martin, on an interview with Daily Mail, Pink explained her teenage years, My life was insane, I was out of control and doing lots of stupid things. Some of my friends were selling crack, and I got into drugs too, ive always been honest about that, although I dont like going into details. Ive got lots of fans and I wouldnt want to give them any ideas. I found a friend dead from an overdose when I was 14. He was a friend, not a boyfriend. Most of the people at the funeral were just children and it should have been a wake-up call for me, but it wasnt. Pink has stated that Who Knew is her song from her first compilation
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Nobody Knows (Pink song)
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Nobody Knows is a song by Pink, and was the fourth single from her fourth album, Im Not Dead. It was released on November 20,2006 in Britain and Ireland and during January 2007 in Australia, the song recorded significant digital sales in 2012 with the release of P. nks sixth album The Truth About Love but never made a Hot 100 debut. Nobody Knows was written by Pink and co-written and produced by Billy Mann, the song is a piano-ballad and deals with her feelings of depression. IGNs wrote that Nobody Knows goes for a blues ballad feel. While commenting about her voice, he said that she belts out her lyrics like a champ. It was the physical single from Im Not Dead to miss the top five on the ARIA Singles Chart, on which it reached its peak in late January 2007. Two weeks before this, Who Knew had re-entered the chart and U + Ur Hand was still on the chart, on the UK Singles Chart it was Pinks lowest peaking single at the time, and the first Im Not Dead single to miss the top ten. Nobody Knows reached number 17 in Germany and number 74 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart, although it reached the top 40 on the majority of charts on which it appeared, it was not as successful as the albums preceding singles. In Canada the song was released to radio in mid-January shortly after the success of U + Ur Hand, the song enjoys great popularity within contestants of TV singing competitions. The song was used in 2007 by Natalie Gauci as her Top 3 performance during Australian Idols Season 5. The song was sung in 2008 by Rachel Adedeji sixth series of The X Factor It was covered in week 3 of the series of The X Factor by the boyband One Direction in 2010. In 2011, LeRoy Bell of The X Factor USAs first season covered the song during Top 17 Performance and it was also covered by Jade Richards as well as Amelia Lily Oliver for Bootcamp Stage 2 during eight series of The X Factor UK. Most recently, it was covered by Jessica Espinoza during her audition for the season of The X Factor USA. The music video was shot in London by director Jake Nava, the first scene features Pink in a hotel room staring out of a window to London at night, that changes to sunrise. She then watches TV but finds theres hardly anything on apart from a melting snowman, during the video she messes up the room by throwing everything around, and she is later seen sitting in the fetal position in a shower. Another scene shows Pink walking down a street, past a couple in love, the video ends with Pink singing to an empty auditorium, pretending to do a real performance
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So What (Pink song)
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So What is a song recorded by American singer Pink for her fifth studio album, Funhouse. The song was written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback, selected as the albums debut single, So What was first released to mainstream radios on August 25,2008, through LaFace and Zomba Label Group. The song consists of a beat and synth backing. The lyrics are based on her separation from motocross racer Carey Hart, so What received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, many praised it for its aggressive and empowering nature while others deemed it childish and bratty. The song was successful commercially, topping the charts in several countries across Europe and Oceania. In the United States, the reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. So What also became her highest selling single in the United States, the music video for So What was directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers. It shows Pink drinking while riding a lawnmower, sawing down a tree, streaking on a red carpet appearance, the video also features a cameo appearance from Hart. Pink performed So What on MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 on November 6,2008, the song was nominated for several awards, eventually winning the MTV Europe Music Award for the Most Addictive Track. So What was written by Pink, Shellback and Max Martin, Martin also handled the production and recording, which took place at Maratone Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Al Clay also recorded the song at the House of Blues Studio - a recording studio in Los Angeles, the song was mixed at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia by Serban Ghenea. John Hanes edited the song using ProTools technology with assistance provided by Tim Roberts, the song was finally mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound in New York City, New York. The songs lyrical content was based on her separation from her husband, so What carries an energetic vibe. The song consists of a powerful charging beat, a chorus. The song is in the key of F# minor, the initial riff is closely familiar to Deep Purples Black Night. Lyrically, the chronicles the protagonists adventures following her separation from her husband. So What was released as the first single from Pinks fifth studio album Funhouse and it was first released on August 11,2008 via digital download to certain countries including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. LaFace and Jive Records solicited the song to hit radio on August 25,2008
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A split screenshot showing a love heart carved on a tree with Pink's legal name and the name of her then-estranged husband. The second shows Pink cutting down the tree. The carving was saved and is now a feature in the couple's house.
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Sober (Pink song)
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Sober is a song by the American singer-songwriter Pink, taken from her fifth studio album, Funhouse. It was written by Pink and Kara DioGuardi, with writing by Nate Danja Hills and Marcella Araica, while production was done by Danja, Tony Kanal. The song was released as the second single on October 31,2008, firstly through digital download. The power pop song talks about the sense of comfort in being sober. The song received favorable reviews from music critics, who commended the track for being a heartfelt track. However, few critics dismissed the track, calling it more of the same from her previous music, furthermore, the song received a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2010. Commercially, Sober attained success on the charts, reaching the top-ten in over thirteen countries, a music video for the track was directed by Jonas Akerlund and it finds Pink at a party with her doppelgänger. In February 2008, Pink announced that she and her husband Carey Hart had separated and it was confirmed that she was working with many music producers such as Butch Walker, Billy Mann, Eg White and Danja. While working on the album, she penned a track called Sober with Kara DioGuardi and she added, I had this idea in my head, like how do I feel this good sober. So I brought that idea to Danja and with this awesome girl Kara DioGuardi and we wrote this song, Sober. And its a pretty telling song and then me and Tony Kanal and Jimmy Harry finished it, production-wise, threw some strings on it and made it a bit darker. Danja and Marcella Araica contributed to additional lyrics, with Danja, Kanal, Araica, Harry and Jake Davis recorded the track at Sha Recording,3,20 Studios and Henson Recording Studios. Jimmy Harry was also responsible for guitars and keyboards, while Tony Kanal provided bass, Sober was selected to be Funhouses second single, after the huge success of So What. It received airplay before release in Australia on Today Networks stations and it was first released as a digital download on iTunes, on October 31,2008, before being released to radio stations on December 1,2008. While announced its release on her website, Pink claimed, It’s just a really, really personal beautiful song. Slants Jonathan Keefe disagreed, calling it a second single. Sober is a pop song, featuring heavy guitars and booming snare. It is written in the key of E minor and set at a slow tempo of 91 beats per minute
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Pink and her doppelgänger in the bathroom at a party, in the video for "Sober".
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Bad Influence (song)
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Bad Influence is the fourth single from Pinks fifth studio album, Funhouse. The single was released on May 8,2009 in Australia, however, the track was certified Gold in Australia. It peaked at #6 on the Australian Singles Chart, as well at #56 on their Year-End chart, Bad Influence was written by Pink, with Billy Mann, Butch Walker, Robin Mortensen Lynch and Niklas Olovson, while production was handled by Machopsycho and Billy Mann. It is a straight up rock chick party song that no apologies for wilding out with your gal pals once in a while. Pink stated, I’m with the Hindus on that one, the singer laughs, pleasure for pleasure’s sake is not a guilty sin. Anna Creeche from Blogcritics wrote that the line Im the instigator of underwear showing up here and there is her favorite line from the entire album. P. Joan Anderman from The Boston Globe agreed, writing, It is a signature track, for Reed Fischer of Village Voice, in the song Pink echoes Gwen Stefani. Lucy Davies from BBC Music described it as her L. O. V. E. -style getting-on-down-with-the-girls anthem, anna Creech from Blogcritics commented about the lyrics, stating, P. nk is, in many ways, fearless in her lyrics. Bristling at any perceived weakness while exposing her vulnerable side, she is keeping it real while also maintaining a sense of humor. The song was chosen as the fourth single following its use in an Optus advertisement. The track was played frequently on Channel Pink on Channel V Australia. Bad Influence -3,35 Please Dont Leave Me -3,43 The song was the most added song to the radio in Australia in its first week of release. On the ARIA Singles Chart, the peaked at number 6. On the Australian Airplay Chart, the song became Pinks 4th consecutive #1 song on the chart, in New Zealand, Bad Influence debuted at number thirty three on May 18,2009, rising to number twenty seven the following week. It has so far peaked at number twelve and it entered the UK charts at #161 on 18 October 2009 because of the advert, peaked at #123. Bad Influence entered the German Singles Chart at #26 in April 2010
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Greatest Hits... So Far!!!
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So Far. is the first greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Pink. It was released on November 12,2010 by Jive Records, the album features Pinks biggest hits from all her studio albums. Its track list differs depending on region, with four new tracks, the hit singles Raise Your Glass and Fuckin Perfect peaked at number one and number two on the Hot 100 chart, respectively. In addition, Heartbreak Down achieved airplay success in some countries and this was the last material that Pink released under LaFace Records and Jive Records before both labels were folded into RCA Records. The compilations artwork was praised and its deluxe edition won the O Music Award for Best iTunes LP. In September 2010, MTV Brazil stated that Pink would be releasing a greatest hits album in the quarter of 2010. A few days later, it was reported by director Cole Walliser, who worked with Pink on her Funhouse Carnival Tour advert. On September 15, Pink was spotted at a photoshoot in LA, and according to the photographer, the album is available in both standard and deluxe editions, with a British release date set for November 15, and a US release set for the day after. On October 5, the album was announced, along with its cover artwork. Originally, Pink was against releasing a greatest hits compilation, stating that she was not inspired at all for this album, I always figured you need to be 60 or better, to have a little more past, to put one of these out. However, she changed her mind, realizing that record companies can put out compilations without your permission and concluded, I wanted it done my way, then, the less skeptical I felt about it, I started to feel a little proud. Raise Your Glass was released as the lead single in the first week of October. It was announced by Pink via her Twitter account and went to top the charts in the United States, according to Pink, the song is dedicated to those who felt they were not a part of the popular crowd. Its accompanying music video was directed by Dave Meyers, and celebrates gay marriage, animal rights and, as Pink puts it, Fuckin Perfect was released as the second single from the album. The song entered several charts before its release as a single and has so far reached number ten in Australia. In the United Kingdom, the song was released in February and it entered the UK singles chart at number 71 with the release of its host album and ultimately reached the top ten. The songs music video was filmed during a stage of Pinks pregnancy, and features actress Tina Majorino. The song peaked at number 1, Heartbreak Down was released as an airplay and promotional single only in central and eastern European countries in June 2011
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Raise Your Glass
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Raise Your Glass is a song by American singer Pink, released as the lead single of her first compilation album, Greatest Hits. The song celebrates the first decade since Pinks debut in 2000 and is dedicated to her fans who have been supporting her over the years. The song is featured in a commercial for the 2011 film Bridesmaids and in the trailers for Whats Your Number. In 2011, Raise Your Glass was ranked at thirteen on the Top 40 Year End Chart based on Mediabase. Raise Your Glass was announced as the single from Pinks then-upcoming greatest hits compilation on October 1,2010. The song follows a pop style, in much similar fashion to her previous work with producer Max Martin. Pink describes the song as a celebration for people who left out from the popular crowd. In an interview for MTV, Pink comments on the song, I dont know if its going to be huge, I had been on the road for two years and I hadnt written anything and I wanted to write a song about underdogs. Instead of going and becoming a cover girl, I kind of just hit the road and pounded the pavement. and you dont have to be popular when youre a touring artist, you just have to be good, and this is a thank you for the fans. The song received acclaim from music critics. After ten years of sterling service to all things pop, the champagnes on us, becky Bain from Idolator said that Pink lifts her glass to toast all the dirty little freaks in her new party track. Fraser McAlpine from BBC blog rated it 4/5 stars, saying that it has to SOUND like wild and it should probably rock, or at least claim to rock. There must be a big chorus, something which brings everyone together in a glorious celebration of Brand Pink. There should be a few silly one-liners, rampant abuse of the English language, a few extravagant claims, a strutting self-regard mixed with a giggling self-depreciation, a sneer and a smile. In the United States, Raise Your Glass recharged Pinks chart performance, becoming her tenth Top 10 hit and her third number one hit. It put Pink third on the list of artists with most Top 10 hits in the 2000s, behind Rihanna. It took the eight weeks to hit the Hot 100s apex. So What, Pinks only previous 3-million seller, reached that level in 26 weeks, as of August 2013, the single has sold 4,162,000 copies
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Whataya Want from Me
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Whataya Want from Me is a song by American recording artist and American Idol eighth season runner-up Adam Lambert from his debut studio album, For Your Entertainment. It was released as the single from the album. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song charted within the top 10 of the charts in thirteen countries. The pop rock song was written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback and was recorded by Pink for her studio album, Funhouse. Lamberts vocal performance of the received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The song was included on the set list of Lamberts first concert tour, the track was originally recorded and co-written by Pink for the album Funhouse but did not make the final cut. On November 18,2009, Lambert announced via his website that his second single from his debut album would be Whataya Want from Me. The song was the single announced before the CD was officially available to the public. The song became available as a download in the United States on November 20,2009. In 2010, Pinks recording appeared exclusively on the releases of her first greatest hits compilation album. Whataya Want from Me has received favorable reviews. Jonathan Keefe from Slant Magazine praised the song and called it phenomenally well-crafted pop single that give Lambert the opportunity to shine, in the Houston Chronicle, Joey Guerra wrote that the song. Probably the discs most straightforward cut, with a bit of a Backstreet Boys vibe, allmusic called this song terrific pop tune and P. nk’s pained. Entertainment Weekly was also positive by calling it hooky, heartfelt lament, detroit News wrote Credit Team Lambert for pairing him with a host of top-notch, like-minded collaborators including Pink. LA Times praised that singing is pleading and soulful and this song took 22nd place on Top 100 American Idol Hits of All Time by Billboard. Whataya Want from Me debuted at number 72 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 on the week of January 2,2010. Following his appearance as a mentor on American Idol, the reached number ten, becoming Lamberts second Top 20 single. As of January 2014, the single had sold approximately 2,006,000 copies within the US, to promote the albums release, several songs from the album were performed live on AOL Sessions – including Whataya Want from Me
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