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Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
Points - 77 (1andonlyanastacia 10, Shameless 14, Angelic Shine 17, James.S 13, Suus 8, Grami 15)

Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) is the sixth single from I'm Not Dead. It was released in 2007 as a physical CD single in Australia, and as a download-only EP in the UK with Dear Mr President. The EP also features live versions of both songs. Certain European countries also received a physical CD release of the single.

In the beginning of February 2007, before its official release as a single, the song was put on the B-list of BBC Radio 1. It debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number sixty, and it rose to number thirty-four. In Australia the single debuted at number eleven and peaked at number five, becoming Pink's fourth top five hit from the album I'm Not Dead; the single also reached the top five in New Zealand.

The music video consists of performances from Pink's I'm Not Dead Tour. The video mostly includes shots of performances of Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely), but it also includes clips of performances of songs such as Stupid Girls, Fingers, The One That Got Away and U + Ur Hand.

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Live from Wembley


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Album Chart Show Performance (with Who Knew)
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Dear Mr President
Points - 92 (1andonlyanastacia 3, Shameless 12, Angelic Shine 5, Josh 10, Suus 20, Frank 16, Nicky 4, Grami 1, Ryan 4, Vic Vega 17)

Dear Mr President is the 5th track on Pink's forth album, I'm Not Dead, and features the Indigo Girls. 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. 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 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 Patriot Act ("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.
The video can also be seen on Yahoo!Launch, with French subtitles.

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Flash Mob


Live at Summerpops 2007, Liverpool


Live on Jimmy Kimmel Show 10/04/07


U + Ur Hand
Points - 92 (1andonlyanastacia 14, Shameless 4, Angelic Shine 16, James.S 18, Josh 5, Suus 13, Frank 5, Grami 17)

U + Ur Hand was the third single released from Pink's fourth album, I'm Not Dead. It was one of the five album tracks that leaked onto the internet in July 2005.U + Ur Hand was released as a single in Europe, Australia and other selected countries on August 28, 2006. The song is credited with re-energizing sales of I'm Not Dead in the U.S.

Pink wrote the song with Luke Gottwald, Max Martin and Rami. According to an interview in the documentary "Making of the U + Ur Hand Video", she always found it irritating when boys were riding on her when she is dancing in a club: "When you turn a boy down in a club you are automatically a lesbian, according to them". She heard a boy once say "Oh well it's just me and my hand tonight" after a girl turned him down. Pink found that funny and started to write a song about it.
The song caused controversy in the U.S. because of its allegedly "racy" references to masturbation, and consequently some radio stations refused to play it. Pink and her publicist stated that she wasn't allowed to sing U + Ur Hand on the U.S. television show American Idol because of such references. She was asked to change the title and lyric to "U + Ur Heart", but she reportedly said, "You want me to rewrite my song for you. For American f***ing Idol? ... what does that even mean, how do you have sex with your heart?". She performed Who Knew instead.

Pink reportedly wanted U + Ur Hand to be the second single from I'm Not Dead, but Who Knew was released as the second and U + Ur Hand was instead released as the third. The single had success in Europe, reaching number ten in the United Kingdom, number four in Germany and number eleven in France; it peaked inside the top ten on the European Hot 100 Singles chart. In Australia the song peaked at number five on the ARIA Singles Chart and is certified gold for sales of 35,000 copies. It was ranked at number twenty-five on ARIA's Top 100 Singles of 2006.

It was released to radio in the United States on October 30. In January 2007 U + Ur Hand debuted on the Hot 100 at number ninety-four, and it peaked at number nine. It was the most successful single from I'm Not Dead in the U.S., and her highest charting song since Just like a Pill (2002). U + Ur Hand peaked at number twenty-four on the Canadian Hot 100, in the first edition of the chart provided by Billboard.

Billboard magazine credited the single with causing an increase in the U.S. sales of I'm Not Dead, which returned to the Billboard 200 albums chart in the same period the single entered the Hot 100. The album later re-entered the top 100 on the strength of U + Ur Hand and a resurgence of interest in Who Knew. According to Tom Carraba, Zomba Label Group general manager and executive vice president of sales and marketing, the "patience" of radio stations, the "great" music video for the single and Pink's participation in Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow tour was responsible for the increase in popularity of U + Ur Hand, which consequently led to renewed interest in the album. Carraba said the single "is the vehicle that will reignite the U.S. marketplace. We think we have a number-one record on our hands." One program director at the radio station WBBM-FM attributed the success of the single to its appeal to women, calling it "a female anthem" and "very fitting to people who are sick of getting hit on by guys at the club, and want to give them a nice buzz off ... it's relevant to what's going on with young people".

Rolling Stone said in their review of I'm Not Dead that Pink "sets a proudly bitchy tone in the song", and All Music Guide described Pink as "taunting and teasing" in U + Ur Hand. British newspaper The Guardian wrote, "the pithy put-downs of [u + Ur Hand] make bearable the sudden shift from classy beats to lumpen power pop".

Pink shot videos for U + Ur Hand and Stupid Girls at the same time, before the decision was made to release the latter as the first single from I'm Not Dead. Dave Meyers directed both videos. The U + Ur Hand video was shot in Sun Valley, California, at the Haziza Gallery in Los Angeles, at La Center Studios and at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California in December 2005. Pink stated that in the U + Ur Hand video she was "glammed" up and that it took four hours of make-up and one hour of shooting for every different look in the video. She said she wanted it to be "a colorful video". The outfit that Pink was wearing in the bedroom scene consisted of pieces of black lace that was imported from France and cost US$300 per yard of the fabric. The actor in the tea garden scene is Tristan Castro.
The music video for U + Ur Hand premiered on Canada's MuchMusic network on July 18, 2006, and was released in Europe at the end of August. In the United States it premiered on MTV's Total Request Live on September 29 as the "First Look" for that day. The video reached number one on TRL six days after its debut, Pink's second video to reach the top on the countdown after the video for her 2003 single Trouble.
The video features Pink posing as several of New Zealand artist Martin Emond's characters, including "Baby Red Knuckles", "Rocker Bikerboy" and "Hard Candy". In the video she has six different looks. During the video, Pink is shown reading a book is with pictures of each scene that follows. Pink's character is named "Lady Delish". The use of these characters was uncredited and unauthorised. At the time of the video release, Illicit Streetwear and the Martin F. Emond estate were reviewing their options to take action

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Live at Wetten Dass (with interview)


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Live at Brixton 14.08.07


Live on Ellen April 11, 2007

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#4
Don't Let Me Get Me
Points - 93 (pink_princess01 20, 1andonlyanastacia 12, James.S 8, Suus 6, Frank 12, Nicky 1, Grami 18, Ryan 6, Vic Vega 11)

Don't Let Me Get Me is a song that Pink recorded for her second album Missundaztood. It was released as the album's second single in 2002, and it reached number six in the UK, number eight in the U.S. and number twenty in Canada. Don't Let Me Get Me contains a sample of Journey's "Faithfully".

A music video was shot in early 2002, and was on MTV's Total Request Live in March 2002.

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Live in Wembley


AVO Sessions


Try This Tour


Top of the Pops
LMAIL is sooo overrated imo :( Great positions for UUH, DLMGT and DMP :D
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#3
Trouble
Points - 97 (pink_princess01 6, 1andonlyanastacia 11, Shameless 11, Angelic Shine 19, Josh 14, Suus 12, Nicky 12, Grami 11, Ryan 1, Vic Vega1 4)


Trouble is a Grammy Award winning rock song recorded by Pink for her third studio album Try This (2003). It was written by Tim Armstrong and Pink and features a prominent guitar riff. The song was released as the album's first single in late 2003 and was moderately successful, reaching number two on the Canadian Singles Chart on November 29, 2003. Elsewhere it was less popular and in the U.S. it failed to enter the top forty.

The song was featured in "White Chicks" (2004).

The song's music video is western-themed. In it, P!nk rides her horse into a small town named Sharktown. Upon seeing several horses tied up, she starts a brawl with the men nearby. She then enters a saloon and orders a drink. The bartender looks to the sheriff (Jeremy Renner) , who has been watching P!nk since she arrived. When the sheriff indicates no, the bartender refuses to serve P!nk, causing her to leap over the counter, knock down the bartender, and start another brawl.

The sheriff breaks a bottle on her head and then has her carried into a jail cell. P!nk seduces the sheriff, who lets her out of the cell, and transfers her own handcuffs to the sheriff. She enters the bar for another fight, and she and several other women (specifically, the Pussycat Dolls) begin dancing on top of the bar counter. After freeing the horses from their stable, P!nk defeats the sheriff in a fight using whips and rides out of town.

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Live at Wembley


Fame Academy


Try This Tour


European Music Awards


Acoustic


AVO Sessions
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#2
Who Knew
Points - 126 (pink_princess01 5, Shameless 10, Angelic Shine 13, James.S 19, Josh 11, Suus 7, Frank 3, Nicky 14, Grami 20, Ryan 10, Vic Vega 8)

Who knew is a pop rock song written by Luke Gottwald, Max Martin and Pink for Pink's fourth album, I'm Not Dead (2006). It was released as the album's second single worldwide in 2006, and was re-released to U.S. radio as the album's fourth single in the United States in 2007 afterr the success of U + Ur Hand.

Pink has stated that "Who Knew" is about "the death of friendship. You're best friends forever, and then three years later you haven't seen each other in two years — what happened? You grow apart and people come in and out of your life for different reasons, seasons." She said in an interview with The Observer that the song was written about friends who died as a result of drug overdoses. According to her, the song is about more than one person: "There's a couple different people mixed in ... It's just the grieving process. You can look at somebody, he might be right there, and the next Monday he might not be." In an interview with the television station TV3 she said that "...[she] always wanted to write a song about death because [she] came in contact with death at a very young age".

Billboard magazine, in its second review of the song (to accompany the U.S. re-release), called it "another cool, smart, plenty passionate melodic jewel about the death of a friend and/or friendship, with an instantly identifiable, quick-to-the-point, singalong track—maintaining Pink's stance as the smartest female millennium-era singer/songwriter, dazzling in star quality as alterna-pop's premier princess."

The song features acoustic guitar, keyboards, drums, and electric guitars. Gottwald, Martin and Pink co-wrote another song on the album, U + Ur Hand.

It was released as the album's second single in 2006 and was very popular in Australia, where it reached number two on the ARIA Singles Chart and is certified platinum for sales of over 70,000 copies. It was ranked at number nine on ARIA's Top 100 singles of 2006. In the United Kingdom the single was also popular, reaching number five; it is Pink's longest running single on the UK Singles Chart, spending twenty-six weeks on the chart. The single made the top ten in a number of other countries in Europe, and it peaked at number eight on the United World Chart.

When the single was originally released in North America, "Who Knew" was less successful. Though it peaked at number nineteen on the BDS Airplay Chart in Canada, it was virtually ignored by American radio. In the U.S., where it was released to mainstream radio on May 8, 2006, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, initially reaching number 18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart (which comprises the most popular songs yet to enter the Hot 100). Billboard magazine credited the poor performance of the single on radio with significantly reducing momentum of initial sales of I'm Not Dead.

In March 2007 the song was used in promotion for the ABC television show October Road, after which download sales of the song increased; as a result, it debuted at number ninety-five on the Hot 100 at the end of the month. During the same period, U + Ur Hand, the third single from I'm Not Dead, had achieved major success on pop radio and was credited with "reviving" Pink's career in the U.S. Pink performed "Who Knew" on the May 9, 2007 episode of American Idol. It was re-released to mainstream radio in the United States on June 26, 2007, although it had already been receiving minor airplay on CHR/top 40 and hot AC/adult top 40 stations earlier in the month. In week twenty-five of 2007 "Who Knew" re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number ninety-four; it has since climbed to number nine, giving Pink her eighth top ten single on the chart and matching the peak position of U + Ur Hand.

The single's video was directed by Dragon, a team comprising Sam Bayer, Robert Hales and Brian Lazzaro. It was filmed in the weekend beginning April 15, 2006 in Los Angeles, United States, and it was released to the internet and to UK music channels in early May 2006. The video reached number one on MTV Germany's top ten and on TRL Italy. "Who Knew" was voted number one on TRL Germany twenty times, allowing Pink to earn the "Golden Tape". In the U.S. Total Request Live broadcast a "First Look" of the video on May 22, and it debuted on the show's top ten countdown the following day, it spent eight non-consecutive days on the countdown (until June 9), peaking at number seven.
It features a young couple visiting a fairground and going on the rides, and at one point the boy puts a necklace on the girl. The video flashes back to the boy secretly injecting himself with drugs on a previous night while the girl is sleeping. At the carnival, when the girl is playing a game, the boy walks away. The girl realizes he's gone and follows him, but when she tries to get him to stay with her he gets violent. He goes to the back of the fairground to inject himself with drugs and breaks into a sweat. His girl wanders around looking for him, and finds him unconscious; he has taken an overdose. She gives him a kiss, gives back the necklace and phones for an ambulance; after it has arrived, she walks away crying. The video is intercut with shots of Pink singing the song at the entrance to the fairground and, later, underwater.


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Live at Wembley


Live at Jenson


T4 Special


American Idol


Princes Trust


Star Academy


AVO Sessions


Flash Mob

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Just Like A Pill
Points - 135 (pink_princess01 9, Shameless 15, Angelic Shine 15, James.S 17, Suus 19, Frank 13, Nicky 10, Grami 19, Ryan 9, Vic Vega 9)

Just like a Pill is the third single released from P!nk's second album M!ssundaztood. The song peaked at number eight on U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number one on UK Singles Chart. It was produced by Dallas Austin.
The theme of the song is about getting out of painful relationships, with a subtheme about drug abuse.

The video for Just Like A Pill was shot by Francis Lawrence. The video for the song is considerably different from her previous videos. Get The Party Started and Don't Let Me Get Me were lighter than the dark side that is reflected in the video for Just Like A Pill. Several scenes are there with P!nk. In the first scene P!nk lies on the floor with a black outfit. In the chorus she is sitting aside of a lot of men running in a circle. She is also featured in a scene also in a black outfit with white rabbits around her and an elephant. There are scenes with P!nk and her band, and at the end she runs in a hall.
In the video P!nk uses an elephant. After the animal had been on the set she saw the abuse and captivity the animal was in. “Pink learned about the abuse of captive elephants when a trainer brought one onto the set of her Just Like a Pill video. She could see that something was wrong and she called us to learn more about the issue. Now, Pink would like to see circuses pack their trunks", according to PETA spokesman Dan Mathews.

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Wembley


MTV VMA 2002


Try This Tour


Scala 2002


Top of the Pops


Flash Mob
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Song/ Points/ Position

Just Like A Pill 135 1
Who Knew 126 2
Trouble 97 3
Dont Let Me Get Me 93 4
U + Ur Hand 92 5
Dear Mr President 92 5
Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) 77 6
Long Way To Happy 75 7
Lonely Girl 74 8
Family Portrait 70 9
I'm Not Dead 64 10
Get the Party Started 60 11
God is a DJ 54 12
Runaway 50 13
Nobody Knows 49 14
Cuz I Can 49 14
18 Wheeler 44 15
Misery 39 16
What's Up 33 17
Most Girls 31 18
Stupid Girls 29 19
Dear Diary 29 19
There You Go 29 19
Unwind 27 20
Fingers 26 21
Waiting For Love 25 22
Heartbreaker 25 22
Eventually 23 23
Lady Marmalade 21 24
Humble Neighbourhoods 20 25
Me and Bobby McGee 20 25
My Vietnam 19 26
18 and Life 19 26
Hell Wit Ya 18 27
Last To Know 17 28
Numb 17 28
I Got Money Nnow 17 28
Disconnected 16 29
Get The Party Started feat. Redman 16 29
Centerfold 15 30
Redemption Song 15 30
Walk Away 14 31
Feel Good Time 14 31
Hooker 14 31
Love Song 13 32
Stop Falling 13 32
Catch 22 13 32
Save My Life 12 33
Tell Me Something Good 12 33
Split Personality 12 33
Piece of my Heart 12 33
Love Is Such a Crazy Thing 11 34
Delerium 11 34
Conversations With My 13 Year Old Self 11 34
Summertime 10 35
Tonights The Night 9 36
Catch Me While I'm Sleeping 9 36
Respect 7 37
You Make Me Sick 6 38
Cant Take Me Home 5 39
Gone to California 5 39
Free 3 40
Sweet Child of Mine 2 41
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63 Songs in total

14 Songs from I'm Not Dead

13 Songs from Try This

11 Songs from Missundaztood

8 Songs from Cant Take Me Home

18 Singles

6 B-sides

7 Live only songs

5 uets/guest vocalists

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Thank you to everyone who took part, hope you had fun doing it, I did :P

 

And I'm sorry for taking so long, it would have been finished ages ago if it wasnt for me being without a proper internet connection for two weeks.

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