| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/arista | | UPC: 00078221471824 | | Release Date: 11/20/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60510053 | | Item#: MQ4D77 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2059 | Format:  CD |
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(C) (P) 2001 Arista Records, Inc.
| With Missundaztood, Pink is sure to astonish her legions of dedicated fans as well as the critcs who applauded her boldness but expect the same R & B pop they heard on 2000's "Can't take me home". She unveils a stunning new voice...a voice that rocks!
"...Pink deserves respect for expressing herself instead of going through the teen-pop motions..." Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone
"The fact that Pink chose to risk all, and broke the industry's most rigid rule...only makes her achievement, and her future, that much rosier." Jim Farber, Entertainment Weekly
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel includes: Pink (vocals); Linda Perry (vocals, guitar, programming); Steven Tyler (vocals); Richie Sambora (guitar); Jimmy Z (harmonica, saxophone); Jim Cox (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Damon Elliot (piano, bass, programming); David Sigel (organ); Marti Frederiksen (loops); Scratch (beatbox). | | Producers include: Linda Perry, Damon Elliot, Dallas Austin, Scott Storch, Marti Friederiksen. | | Engineers include: Linda Perry, Carlton Lynn, Wassim Zreik. | | M!SSUNDAZTOOD was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Get The Party Started" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for | | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. | | Personnel includes: Pink (vocals); Linda Perry (vocals, guitar, programming); Steven Tyler (vocals); Richie Sambora (guitar); Jimmy Z (harmonica, saxophone); Jim Cox (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Damon Elliot (piano, bass, programming); David Sigel (organ); Marti Frederiksen (loops); Scratch (beatbox). | | Producers include: Linda Perry, Damon Elliot, Dallas Austin, Scott Storch, Marti Friederiksen. | | Engineers include: Linda Perry, Carlton Lynn, Wassim Zreik. | | M!SSUNDAZTOOD was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Get The Party Started" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for | | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel: P!nk (background vocals); Linda Perry (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, drum programming); Marti Frederiksen (guitar, Mellotron, drums); Richie Sambora (guitar); Wayne Hood (strings, keyboards); Z. Jimmy (harmonica, saxophone); Jim Cox (piano); Rick Sheppard (midi); Bernd Burgdorf (programming); Damon Elliott (drum programming); Steven Tyler (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Kevin "KD" Davis; Dave Pensado; Dave Way; David Guerrero; Bernd Burgdorf; Tim LeBlanc; Marti Frederiksen. | | Audio Remixer: Bernd Burgdorf. | | Recording information: Darp Studios, Atlanta, GA; Drive BY Studios, North Hollywood, CA; Larrabee Studios, LA, CA; LP Studios, Sherman Oaks, CA; Pinetree Studios, Miami Beach, FL; Sony Studios, Santa Monica, CA; The Enterprise, Burbank, CA. | | Photographer: Terry Richardson. | | Arrangers: Dallas Austin; Marti Frederiksen; Richie Supa. | | Pink's debut album was a promising collection of dance-pop, easily lumped into the teen pop boon of 2000 since she was young and sang over savvy, skittering club beats. Those comparisons irked -- hell, angered -- Pink, and she was determined to prove she was real with her second album. So she called up her idol, Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes fame, to help her rock and write; bared her soul; fought for some artistic control; brought in Steven Tyler; and wound up with M!ssundaztood, a title bound to never show up on Internet search engines. This all sounds like the script for a VH1 movie, but the wild thing is that M!ssundaztood not only works, it works smashingly -- a bewildering amalgam of sounds and attitudes that shouldn't fit together, but defy all odds and do. This record bubbles over with imagination, as hooky pop songs like the title track rub shoulders with glitzy dancefloor anthems like "Get the Party Started" and sexy, swaggering arena rock redux like "18 Wheeler" before delving into weird confessionals like "Family Portrait," "Dear Diary," and "My Vietnam." Forget that this isn't what anybody would have expected Pink to do; it's hard to imagine anybody else that would have the idea and the inclination to blend late-'80s, metal-spiked album rock with modern hip-hop and dance, then dress it up with dazzling modern pop production, all the while not avoiding painful subjects (particularly her dysfunctional family) or melody. If that's not an artistic statement, then what is? And the damn thing is, there hasn't been a record in the mainstream this vibrant or this alive in a long, long time. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | Whether you were one of the fans who feared or one of the detractors who hoped that Pink would fail to follow-up her smash debut album, M!SSUNDAZTOOD serves notice that the lady with the pink hair (yes, it still is) is more than just a one-shot flash in the pan. The grooving pop of the title-track is less hip-hop oriented than Pink's previous hits, sounding more like an amiable collision between Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray. "Don't Let Me Get Me" and "Just Like a Pill" tread even closer to pop-rock territory, the latter bearing an anthemic quality that wouldn't sound out of place on an Alanis Morissette album. The appropriately titled "Get the Party Started is a funky party anthem, and the rap-flavored "Respect" is a modern urban update on the classic Aretha theme. Whether she's making her way through pop, rock, rap, or R&B, Pink struts confidently enough through M!SSUNDAZTOOD to assure her admirers that she intends to stick around for quite a while. | | Whether you were one of the fans who feared or one of the detractors who hoped that Pink would fail to follow-up her smash debut album, M!SSUNDAZTOOD serves notice that the lady with the pink hair (yes, it still is) is more than just a one-shot flash in the pan. The grooving pop of the title-track is less hip-hop oriented than Pink's previous hits, sounding more like an amiable collision between Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray. "Don't Let Me Get Me" and "Just Like a Pill" tread even closer to pop-rock territory, the latter bearing an anthemic quality that wouldn't sound out of place on an Alanis Morissette album. The appropriately titled "Get the Party Started is a funky party anthem, and the rap-flavored "Respect" is a modern urban update on the classic Aretha theme. Whether she's making her way through pop, rock, rap, or R&B, Pink struts confidently enough through M!SSUNDAZTOOD to assure her admirers that she intends to stick around for quite a while. |
Musical Guests | | Steven Tyler | | Linda Perry | | Scratch |
| | Artist Overview | | Although Pink rose to prominence as an R&B singer in the classic `90s LaFace mold, a front displayed on her debut CAN'T TAKE ME HOME, it was when she took control of her own image in 2001 that she truly became an icon. While the Linda Perry (4 Non Blondes) composed hit "Get This Party Started" strayed not all that far from her initial dance-pop path, the remainder of M!SSUNDAZTOOD revealed an artist schooled in the punk tradition. Further recordings wandered down multiple paths, cementing Pink's reputation as a genre-bending pop songstress. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/20/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 14718 | | Label : Arista Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00078221471824 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.108)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"Rolling Stone (12/13/01, p.148)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Fun...this album is practically the teen-pop IN UTERO....Pink abandons R&B to indulge her dream of being a hard-rock chick..." Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.108)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002" Rolling Stone (12/13/01, p.148)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Fun...this album is practically the teen-pop IN UTERO....Pink abandons R&B to indulge her dream of being a hard-rock chick..." Entertainment Weekly (11/23/01, p.82)
- "...[She] sounds like Cyndi Lauper's long lost stepsister...a fetching collection of pop confections..." - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (11/23/01, p.82)
- "...[She] sounds like Cyndi Lauper's long lost stepsister...a fetching collection of pop confections..." - Rating: A- Q (1/02, pp.105-106)
- 3 out of 5 stars - "...influences include Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin....smouldering late night rock and blues...autobiographical emotional outpouring..." Q (1/02, pp.105-106)
- 3 out of 5 stars - "...influences include Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin....smouldering late night rock and blues...autobiographical emotional outpouring..." |
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