The track, which wasn't actually written with Perry but producer Dallas Austin, was a direct dig at record label execs and popstar marketing (both Britney Spears and LA Reid get namechecked in the song). "In the beginning I just said, 'What do you feel?' and would just sit behind the piano and sing," Perry recalled.Īs a result of opening up, Pink decided to tell it how it really was. Working mainly with Linda Perry on Missundazstood, Pink wanted to showcase a different side to herself. While the album's first single, 'Let's Get The Party Started', was a mission statement of a lead single, it was the album's second cut, 'Don't Let Me Get Me' that would become a blueprint for Pink's subsequent career: autobiographical songs filled with attitude. While Pink initially flirted with '00s R&B with her debut album, it wasn't until her 2002 sophomore effort, Missundazstood (yes, that's really how it's spelt), that she truly found her groove with a blend of punky pop rock. 'Don't Let Me Get Me' was born from a need to break free… So, we've done our best Angela Lansbury impression and done some investigating into the surprising stories behind her biggest hits…ġ. Of course, with a career that's lasted nearly two decades, there's bound to be a few stories to tell.
Even this year's Alice In Wonderland soundtrack song, 'Just Like Fire', cracked the Billboard Hot 100. Songs like 'Just Like A Pill', 'Get The Party Started', 'Trouble' and more recently 'Just Give Me A Reason' have proved that the singer can produce hit song after hit song.
She does, by the bucket load.īeginning her career as an R&B singer, Pink quickly found her groove somewhere in between the attitude of 4 Non-Blondes and the hit-making ability of Britney Spears.
That's not to say that the singer doesn't have the vocal chops of her contemporaries, or to suggest that she just doesn't have the hits. Despite having a career that's spanned over 16 years, Pink often (unfairly) gets left out of the pantheon of pop's leading ladies.