SorrySorrySorry!

 

my computer was broken last night, it has made a miraculous (spell?) recovery this morning tho and has only restarted itself, smelt like burning, and made funny noises once today :cheer:

 

anyway

 

in at number 8 is..........

Stupid Girls

7.85

 

 

A much loved video, Stupid Girls is in at number 8 in the rate with 7.85. It was written by Pink, Billy Mann, Niklas Olovson and Robin Mortensen Lynch. It was the first single to be released from I'm Not Dead. It got to number 4 in the UK, number 14 in Billboard hot 100, and number 3 in Australia. The single also had a bside called Heartbreaker.

 

The single entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week of February 25 at number twenty-four, the week's highest debut and the highest debut of Pink's career. In the week of March 4 it climbed to number thirteen, becoming Pink's eighth top twenty single in the United States and her highest peaking single since "Just like a Pill" (2002). Its success 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 appeared on the Adult Top 40. It became moderately popular in clubs, peaking inside the top twenty on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

The single was a bigger hit elsewhere, reaching number two on the Canadian Singles Chart. On the Australian ARIA Singles Chart it entered at number four and is certified platinum for sales of over 70,000. It was ranked number thirty-ninth on ARIA's top 100 singles of 2006 list. It also peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Pink's highest charting single in the UK since "Feel Good Time" (2003). It reached the top ten in most countries in Europe, and it topped the United World Singles Chart for the week ending May 6. "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. She wrote, "'Stupid Girls', is the antidote-anthem for everything I had been thinking about women and thinness."

 

 

Pink has explained that she noticed many young girls near her Los Angeles home aspire to the hypersexual personae of female pop icons rather than careers or talents. She was inspired to write "Stupid Girls", in which she deplores the lack of good role models for girls while encouraging them to cultivate independence and individuality. "There's a certain thing the world is being fed, and my point is there should be a choice", Pink said.

Pink said the song was "brought on by several conversations I've had with women and girls. Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0", adding that some are "living vicariously through these people who seem to shop all day" rather than focusing on issues such as war and poverty. According to International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, the song "highlights the culture's relentless and unrealistic pursuit of thinness and unattainable drive for physical beauty". Pink discussed what she called the "Stupid Girl epidemic" during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

 

The Music Video

The single's video was directed by Dave Meyers and premiered on MTV's broadband channel Overdrive on January 26, 2006. Meyers and Pink shot the videos for "Stupid Girls" and "U + Ur Hand", the album's third single, before the decision was made as to which would become the album's lead single. Pink described the video as "sick and twisted and insane" and said of Meyers, "He has an insane imagination. I don't think anyone ever stopped laughing during 'Stupid Girl'. I don't think everyone else is going to laugh, but just know that we all did." Pink did her own stunts for the video. According to Barry Weiss, president of Zomba Music Group, executives at Pink's label were reluctant to release the song as the album's first single until the video "hit a chord" with them. They decided to release the video before issuing the song to radio, and 8.6 million people downloaded the video when it was made available on the internet. "Radio programmers went online to download the audio from the video in order to get it on radio", Zomba's senior vice president of marketing Janet Kleinbaum said.

The video shows Pink as an angel and a demon who try to influence the future of a young girl. The angel shows her a series of images demonstrating the stupidity of current trends in female celebrity, and the images feature Pink in various roles, including a finishing school teacher, a dancer in a 50 Cent video, a girl attempting to attract the attention of an instructor at the gym, a girl who uses her emergency inflatable breasts at a bowling alley, a girl at a tanning salon, a girl with bulimia who considers calories "so not sexy", an old woman in a pink tracksuit, a girl getting plastic surgery, a girl making a sex tape, a girl washing her car and rubbing a facecloth and soap all over herself, and a girl who goes into what looks like a pet shop, buys an "itsy bitsy doggy", and drives her car so carelessly while putting on makeup that she runs over two people. (50 Cent is played by the rapper's cousin; Pink commented in the making of the music video that his nickname is "25 Cent" because of the similarity in appearance between him and his cousin.) Pink also plays characters meant to represent the opposite of "stupid girls", such as a female president and a girl winning a game of rugby. The video ends with the girl choosing a football, a computer, books, dance shoes, and a keyboard over makeup and a set of dolls; the demon is defeated.

Some of the negatively portrayed characters in the video are parodies of young female celebrities such as Mary Kate Olsen, who provides the basis for the Boho-chic dressing style of the girl who visits a Fred Segal clothing store; Fred Segal is a retailer popular with celebrity "stupid girls". The redheaded girl who accidentally hits pedestrians with her car is a parody of Lindsay Lohan. The scene in which Pink washes a car in a bikini is a parody of similar scenes in the video for Jessica Simpson's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (2005) and a 2005 Carl's Jr. television commercial featuring Paris Hilton. The digital video shots showing Pink in bed with a man parallel those in the Paris Hilton sex tape 1 Night in Paris.

The video debuted on the U.S. MTV Total Request Live countdown on January 31 and peaked at number six; it remained on the countdown for fourteen days, until February 23.[11] The video was retired on the Poland version of MTV's Total Request Live, and it won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best Pop Video" in August 2006 (see 2006 MTV Video Music Awards). When she was receiving the award, Pink parodied Paris Hilton by talking in a higher pitched voice and acting overly excited. Nicole Richie, Hilton's co-star on The Simple Life, co-presented the award.

 

 

The Music Video

 

Music Video Outtakes

 

Live at Wembley

 

Live at Top of the Pops

 

 

Photo taken by Frank Micelotta & Bob Berg

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Photo taken by Me at Manchester MEN 05/11/06

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LOVE this. Really great. Amazing performances :wub:

Stupid Girls is ok, it grated on me after playing it to death.

next result will be in at around 8pm tonight when i get home :kink:

GoodGood :D

sorry its so bloody late again, virgin media are $h!te :lol:

 

next result coming in 10mins (hopefully!)

Dear Mr President

8.15

 

 

"Dear Mr. President" is a song by Pink featuring the Indigo Girls, and was recorded for Pink's fourth album, I'm Not Dead. Pink said that the song is an open letter to the President of the United States, George W. Bush, and that it is one of the most important songs she had written. She stated that it would never be released as a single because it was too important to be perceived as a publicity stunt. However, it has since been released in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The video of her performance live from Wembley Arena has also been added to the VH1 line-up of videos.

 

The song was written by Pink and Billymann. Pink came up with the idea to ask the Indigo Girls to join the recording of the song. According to an interview, they "believe in the song. An open letter to the president, that's what we needed." During an interview with an Australian radio station, the Australian girl group Young Divas asked Pink what she was thinking when she wrote "Dear Mr. President". Pink stated that she wrote the song on Martin Luther King Day in 2005. "I read The New York Times every day, and watch the news. And I was completely disgusted with it. I just felt like....I just needed to write a song."

When I'm Not Dead was released on April 5, 2006, "Dear Mr. President" attracted considerable attention. Most of the discussion concerned Pink's statement that the song was intended for United States President George W. Bush. The song's format is a series of rhetorical questions for the President, specifically pertaining to how he really feels about controversial issues such as war ("Let me tell you about hard work/Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away"), homosexuality ("What kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?") --this can also be viewed as Vice President Dick Cheney not accepting gay rights when his own daughter is gay,-- The homeless ("What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street"), the attempted ban on abortion ("What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?") and drug abuse ("You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine"), and asks "when you look in the mirror are you proud?".

In an interview with MTV News Pink stated she hoped Bush heard the song and that "[he] is proud of the fact that we live in a country where we can do things like that, where we can have dissent, talk, communicate and share our opinions." After she performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live on April 11, 2007, she thanked Jimmy Kimmel for letting her sing it, telling him that many radio station DJs had been told they couldn't discuss the track if she was a guest, and that she wasn't allowed to perform it on other U.S. television shows.

After her loss in the Georgia 4th District Democratic primary on August 8, 2006, Cynthia McKinney played the song to her supporters in lieu of a concession speech and sang along.

The song was used during the closing of the fourth season final of the television series The L Word.

 

In Belgium an acoustic version of the song was released as a downloadable single in late 2006. The single was recorded at a showcase for Q-music, a Belgian radiostation. It held the number-one spot on the Ultratop 50 Chart for four weeks, becoming the first download-only song to reach number one. It reached number one in Austria, the top five in Switzerland and Germany (where it was certified gold) and the top forty in the Netherlands and New Zealand.

In February 2007 Pink's official UK website reported that "Dear Mr. President" and "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" would be released as a download single in the UK. However, in June 2007 it was announced that the song would be released as an import single in the UK. It will be released on July 30 in the UK. Sony BMG Music in Australia announced that "Dear Mr. President" would be the sixth single from the album in that country, and would be released to radio on June 11. "Dear Mr. President" was released in Australia on July 7, 2007, according to sonybmg.com.au. The single was released in a special two disc part commemorating Pink's I'm Not Dead Tour in Australia — part two had space for the part one disc and contained dates of her record-breaking Australian tour and milestones for the album I'm Not Dead. "Dear Mr. President" peaked at number five.

While "Dear Mr. President" was not released in the United States, many American radio stations have begun to play the song, mainly Boston's Kiss 108 and Mix 98.5, and New York's Z100., however both stations stopped rotation of the song in less than a month. Also notable is that the track has surfaced onto the AllAccess MediaBase adds page, indicating it may be going for adds soon (no specific release date has yet been announced, however).

 

Like the video for "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)", the "Dear Mr. President" music video is a live video, but it differs from the "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" video in that it includes the live vocal. It is from the performance of the song during Pink's I'm Not Dead Tour in London at Wembley Arena. The performance was featured on the tour DVD Pink: Live from Wembley Arena. Pink is in front of the stage with her backing vocalists and an acoustic guitar, singing the song. On the big screens images are shown of George W. Bush, coffins with American flags over them (pointing to soldiers that have died during the War in Iraq) and more. Those images are also shown on the left and right side of Pink's head during the song.

The video debuted at number four on the German version of MTV's Total Request Live on May 3, 2007. It is shown with German subtitles in Austria and Germany and with Czech subtitles in Czech Republic. In Australia, the video is not shown on Network Ten's G-rated morning music video show Video Hits First, regardless of whether it is in the top 10 of the ARIA Charts or not. It recently began showing on its sister show Video Hits, which is PG-rated and screens at a later time (10:00am AEST). Despite this, it is shown on other music video shows, such as Eclipse (Seven Network, also PG-rated), and rage (ABC, G-rated after 6:00am).

On November 12, 2007 VH1, a U.S.-based video music channel, began introduced the song into their video rotation.

 

 

Live at Wembley/Music Video:

 

Jimmy Kimmel Live 4-10-07:

 

Live in New York:

oh. :o That's LOW.

yeah i thought it would have been higher too, altho i really really like the song, think the lyrics are amazing, i think its been overplayed a bit too much

 

btw ur sig is faaaaabulous :D

I love Dear Mr. President. :wub: It's one of my favorites.

Shame its so low :( Deserverd top 5 imo

i'm gonna post some more soon but bare with me cuz i'm tired, ill and pissed off tonight, so u guys are very lucky that i come on here to post some more results lol

Okay :D

Long Way To Happy

8.3

 

At number 6 in the rate is Long Way To Happy. The song has very dark lyrics and could be opened to many meanings. But I think the main meaning of this song is rape/abuse. Pink began writting the lyrics to this song when she was younger as a poem, but with the help of Butch Walker, she finally finished the poem and recorded it.

 

Live in New York

yeah i thought it would have been higher too, altho i really really like the song, think the lyrics are amazing, i think its been overplayed a bit too much

 

btw ur sig is faaaaabulous :D

Thanks. :lol:

 

I LOVE 'Long Way To Happy', there's something really really really good about it that makes it so easy to listen to. Would of worked great as a single.

the very first time i heard long way to happy i wanted it to be a single, i thought the video would have been great and its got that just like a pill feel to it i think, its one of my fave songs ever

 

 

number 5 coming tomorrow morning or evening, if i have time :lol:

Cuz I Can

8.45

 

 

Just getting in the top 5 of the rate is Cuz I Can with 8.45. The fabulous show-opener track was written by Pink, Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald, and was rumoured to be the 7th single from I'm Not Dead, however it has been comfirmed by Sony BMG Australia that there will be no more physical singles released from the album. It was sent to radio stations in Australia on October 4, 2007. The track debuted at #33 and has so far peaked at #14 on the Australian Digital Singles Chart. The track debuted at #39 and set a record for being the first single to appear on the New Zealand Singles Chart based on downloads alone. To date, the track has peaked at #29.

 

Live at Wembley:

 

Live in New York:

 

 

Awesome song! Brings back memories of the endless hours waiting to see P!nk and when we finally saw her she appeared on stage with Cuz I Can. As soon as I hear that song, it takes me back to that moment. The moment when it is hard to believe it's actually P!nk before your eyes :wub: :wub:

yeah i know what you mean carly, the moment you hear ice cream ice cream we all want ice cream, its like it takes ur breath away :lol: