i hate when the third release from an album gets to number 1

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as has bizarrely happened this week with Pink...how did it manage to battle off Eminem, Bon Jovi and all those other contenders

this hasnt happened since Mel C's dreadful 'I Turn To You' as far as i can think (probably loads more recent examples tho)...and like Mel C this Pink track is a lot weaker than her previous 2 singles so what gives?

my next thread will be 'why do i still care/remain fascinated by the charts anyway?'

― blueski, Monday, 23 September 2002 18:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pink, Eminem, Bon Jovi, Mel C....

WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT THIS CRAP?!?!?!?!?!?!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 September 2002 18:29 (twenty-two years ago) link

Didn't Bon Jovi die in a blaze of glory back in the 1880s?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 23 September 2002 18:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nah, he rode off on his steel horse

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 September 2002 18:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

when is 'Pink' going to die an anonymous death that will go unnoticed, as she has done nothing to warrant ANY FUCKING ATTENTION WHATSO-FUCKING-EVER!!!

― rms (rms), Monday, 23 September 2002 19:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

Shall we talk about Pink.....and how shit she is? Alrighty, let's. What does it tell you that the producer/muse she sought out when desperately trying to shake-off her R'n'B persona was Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes (they of the singularly most irritating song of the 90's, "What's Up?")? It tells me this: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TO-FUCKING-GETHER!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 September 2002 19:41 (twenty-two years ago) link

I love how Just Like A Pill attempts that endless-overlapping-repetition-into-fadeout finale normally reserved for songs with, um, good melodies.

I think Pink's appeal is primarily pity-based:

Pumpin' up the volume with this brand new beat
Everybody's dancin' and their dancin' for me
I'm your operator, you can call anytime
I'll be your connection to the party line

Bonus points if someone wrote that for her.

― gazuga, Monday, 23 September 2002 19:46 (twenty-two years ago) link

fuck you fuck you fuck you PINK ROOLZ!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 23 September 2002 19:51 (twenty-two years ago) link

Popist!

― hstencil, Monday, 23 September 2002 19:53 (twenty-two years ago) link

sigh.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 19:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

stencil: give in to the decky-dance!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:10 (twenty-two years ago) link

uh, sigher!

― hstencil, Monday, 23 September 2002 20:10 (twenty-two years ago) link

sterl: say wha'?

Can someone clear this up for me: how is somebody or thing "just like a pill" if it "keeps making me ill?" In common practice, pills are used to cure illness.

And, as alluded to before, what exactly are "prostrate fears?" Some sort of fear of gynecological exams? Is that what she sings?

― hstencil, Monday, 23 September 2002 20:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

Is the decky-dance the one where you rhythmically punch Linda Perry in the face and stomach?

hstencil: "frustrated fears".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

haha i think my new title shall be "sighist".

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

When I heard it, it sounded like "prostrate." Either way, I didn't really want to investigate.

― hstencil, Monday, 23 September 2002 20:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

if sighist works for you, then we have a winner.

― hstencil, Monday, 23 September 2002 20:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

(hs: a "v. subtle" joke, heh heh)

Pill not like a perscription, but like an illicit drug which only makes things worse -- or maybe even a legal drug which is abused, like a spiral of uppers and sleeping pills, maybe?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ah, but isn't the narrator's motivation that she wants to get better? Clearly she's in the hospital, under a prescribed regimen: she's soliciting help from the nurse, but "she's bein' a little bitch?" Or something?

Okay, okay, I'll quit.

― hstencil, Monday, 23 September 2002 20:23 (twenty-two years ago) link

I really want to interview Pink. I wanna say "You know that lyric of yours, "Tired of being compared to Britney Spears/ She's so damn pretty/ That ain't me"? How has being pigshit fucking ugly affected your career?"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:40 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like this Pink single better than the other two. Maybe I just prefer the video.

What's up with all these bon jovi haterz? have I entered some weird alternative universe?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hardly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:15 (twenty-two years ago) link

It is U+K that we get Dom an interview with Pink AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

aw, Pink aint so bad - vaguely cute - we just dont like her music cos we aint no sassy white gurls who tryin to persuade dad to keep payin their bills so they can concentrate on rebelling against the mansystem in an anodyne plume of faux feminine rage...

speakin of which, its weird how Avril Levigne keeps gettin likened to Alanis Morrissette - about as accurate as a Michael Owen penalty that one

but hey, s'not like i care or anythin

― blueski, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:54 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pink's minor advantage is the 'Get The Party Started; acapella, lending itself to several bootlegs of late. I;ve just been sent Master Cylinder's mash up of it with 'Tomorrow Never Knows' - and surprise surprise its competently done and kinda works...altho there's really no point to it of course

― blueski, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:55 (twenty-two years ago) link

No seriously, what happen to Bon Jovi, I thought he was relaxing at some poolside with Bryan Adams, Corey Heart and Tupac.

Not Biggie though, he dead.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:32 (twenty-two years ago) link

New Bon Jovi single very modern rocky, otherwise can't remember a bar of it. Pill as in "bitter pill" or "don't be such a pill" i.e. causing discomfort/hard to swallow, rhetorical "but" before "instead of making me better" left out to help an already overcrowded line scan better. Worst single of Pink's carrer, still glad it got to #1.

― B:Rad (Brad), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:42 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pink is beautiful. Her album, however, is decidedly iffy, which was a huge disappointment to me. If I'd wanted a Sia vs. Roxette showdown, I'd have asked for one...

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:43 (twenty-two years ago) link

we are all Bon Jovi haterz apart from you, jel

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:19 (twenty-two years ago) link

The rest of her album is even better than the singles. Also, whatever the pink demographic, the girl herself didn't have a daddy for most of her child/teen years and she left home and was a hard rebel and stuff. I hear.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

alex has a good point - why would anyone let that 4non blondes woman anywhere near the studio

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

If the label has any confidence in the record at all, it won't release the catchiest song as the first single. It's like giving it up on the first date. Exhibit A: Veruca Salt.

A favorite sequence is (1) teaser, (2) megasmash (3) power ballad.

― anon (felicity), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 04:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't get you sometimes Sterling.

The charts this week are freaky - Aqualung?? Still it's nice to have Beenie Man in there. Normal service resumed next week with the Pop Idol Beatles thing.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 06:14 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sterling is absolutely fucking OTM this time. But I am repeating myself, as is most everybody else on this thread I notice.

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

i see Alex in NYC has gone to get a cloth to wipe the spluttered beer off his keyboard and monitor. again;)

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tom: get what?

Also, that beenie man/janet thing has them both overshadowed by a fucking casio bleep!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:54 (twenty-two years ago) link

That, Sterling. That.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:01 (twenty-two years ago) link

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