{"id":41202,"date":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/funhouse\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"funhouse","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/funhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Funhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

On first listen to this new one by genre-bender Pink, I wasn\u2019t all that impressed. So I did what any reputable music critic does: I listened to it again. That\u2019s when the material had its biggest impact on me. I was going to dismiss the high number of ballads out of hand, but a few of them ultimately won me over the second time around. The upbeat tracks, however, are the real home runs here. Attitude is what Pink is all about, and she continues her long tradition of kicking ass and taking names on the ironically titled Funhouse<\/i>.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The bluesy slow songs, and there are quite a few of them, all end up as one big overwrought blur. They bring the whole album to a screeching halt at different points and the entire affair nearly collapses entirely from their sheer weight. Having said that, \u201cSober\u201d has some real kick and will follow up the amazing #1 \u201cSo What\u201d as the next single. Pink shows her tender side on \u201cGlitter In The Air,\u201d which is much more affecting and effective than the embarrassingly trite duo of \u201cI Don\u2019t Believe You\u201d and \u201cOne Foot Wrong.\u201d It\u2019s like, okay Pink, we get that you\u2019re going through a divorce — you don\u2019t have to hit us over the head with it. But then, Pink has never been known for subtlety.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The rocking mid-tempo cuts \u201cIt\u2019s All Your Fault\u201d and \u201cAve Mary A\u201d fit in nicely and can be found near the tail-end of the album. Even better still is \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Leave Me,\u201d which has a cool vibe and some nice echo effects. These three songs succeed in transporting the listener back to Pink\u2019s Missundaztood <\/i>days in 2001, the last time she really took the world by storm. Since then, she has struggled to maintain her footing with the harder-edged Try This<\/i> and the lackluster I\u2019m Not Dead<\/i>. Now, with Pink heading in the right direction again, her new album Funhouse <\/i>isn\u2019t half bad.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

My award for standout track on the album <\/i>has got to be \u201cBad Influence,\u201d one of the most rollicking songs Pink has ever recorded, and arguably the most fun here. With its dizzying twists and turns, it\u2019s got that pogo-style bounce that has quickly become the hallmark of most successful pop songs these days. Consider it Pink\u2019s newest anthem. As for the title track, I really wanted to like it more than I did. If there\u2019s ever a song that needs a lyrical re-write, it\u2019s that one. The rhythm section gets into some all-too familiar dance floor territory for its own good as well.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

I was really excited to add this album to my collection, since it is the first one I\u2019ve bought since the Moulin Rouge <\/i>soundtrack (which also featured Pink) that actually contains a bona-fide #1 Billboard hit song. It\u2019s been seven long years! Maybe with Pink leading the charge, pop is finally making its long-awaited comeback. Nothing would make me happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8295],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-41202","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pnk","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41202"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}