Pink: The Discography Rate ∞ WINNER!

Stop eliminating ballads! Bloody @Verandi.
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Y'all need to realise that my scores alone don't really change the outcome of the rate. Other villains live in the shadows.
 
‘Like a battered child I got used to your pain’ is a haunting lyric which honestly makes me feel uneasy. It’s a great song though so I’ll still bop
 
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65. My Attic
Average score: 7.30
Highest score: 10x3 (@Sanctuary, @kal, @Lost Boy)
Lowest score: 3 (@happiestgirl)
My score: 10

My attic is full of pages, full of crazy
Cluttered spaces that you could not cross
My attic is full of bones and full of hopeless
Young emotions that just won't grow up
I keep hiding the keys in all these
Places even I can't find
Hoping, one day, you'll find them all
And I wanna let you see inside my attic


The older sister track to 'Barbies' falls first, leaving her latest album with just four tracks remaining. Like 'Barbies', 'My Attic' is an exploration in nostalgia in the face of personal trauma. Actually written by Julia Michaels and co (the only song she didn't have a hand in writing on the album), it's a stunning revelation about the hidden parts of us that we desperately want someone to find, but that doesn't make it any less terrifying.

I happen to think it's one of the strongest ballads she's released in years, and how she personifies the darkness inside of her with this part of the house that we usually throw memories into - occasionally digging out things we didn't even remember were hidden away - is just... exactly the kind of songwriting that I wish she was championed for, so I'm really glad she recognised the potential and recorded it. Personal trauma and memories are complex things for us to understand, and a rocky past doesn't stop us wanting to go back to simpler times or to open up and show people these parts of us.

Personally it's particularly heart wrenching to hear the I keep hiding the keys in all these places even I can't find. Noting that sometimes we repress and bury things that are screaming to get out before we are even aware of it. Beautiful.

Commentary corner:

@JMRGBY88: (9.5) a beautiful song.

@Verandi: (8) Oh this is pretty

@rick: (9) Barbies Part 2. But better.

@abael: (7) Pink adds emotional power well to her vocals, and sells it well. The song itself can only achieve so much.

@tylerc904: (7) You can instantly hear Julia’s imprint on this, not that it’s a bad thing. I really like how subtle the vocal is.

@Laurence: (4) Well, this just doesn't do it for me either. It sounds very generic vanilla white male with a guitar, usually trash.

@Music Is Life: (9) This is great mid-tempo. I love the production, and the way it builds, and I love the melody, especially on the verses, and the lyrics are so heartbreaking here.

@Maki: (7) This tries to replicate "Barbies" and pretty much fails do to that. Sounds so similar to it, both sonically (instruments mostly) and lyrically. The production is almost identical, but the melody is weaker. It's like a more mellow version of the song. I wanted to call it a filler, but this sound doesn't occur anywhere else on the album. Also, P!nk didn't co-write this song, so it explains that it sounds less authentic than "Barbies". The shorter length of the songs does it justice, though. Overall, I can't name any major objection, it's just a bit unremarkable.

@R27: (5) I feel like this isn't as deep or moving as it seems to think it is.
@savilizabeths: (8) “Yeah, I’m a bit of a sucker for ballads, especially ones with feeling behind them. This isn’t the best example of that on this album but it’s so pretty. Strings and acoustic guitars are two of my favourite things in the world and this song incorporates them gorgeously. Pink has stunning, emotive vocals here and the lyrics are just beautiful. You can tell that she puts her entire heart into songs like these, and it makes for a very sweet moment.”

 
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My Attic is a weird one for me. I think it's a great song and one of the best on the album but I always feel the need to skip it half way through whenever i'm playing the album. It just doesn't have pulls me in the way 'Barbies' did and I feel that's what they were trying to replicate here.
 
My Attic is a weird one for me. I think it's a great song and one of the best on the album but I always feel the need to skip it half way through whenever i'm playing the album. It just doesn't have pulls me in the way 'Barbies' did and I feel that's what they were trying to replicate here.

I was about to say similar.

It feels like the sister to 'Barbies', but it's not as powerful.
 
"My Attic" was my lowest remaining score from "Hurts 2B Human", and one of the lowest remaining scores in general, so it's a good one.
Actually, I expected it to leave earlier, given how the album was treated. The next song from that album will most likely be "Walk Me Home" - and then we'll have an excellent top 3 from it.

My Attic is a weird one for me. I think it's a great song and one of the best on the album but I always feel the need to skip it half way through whenever i'm playing the album. It just doesn't have pulls me in the way 'Barbies' did and I feel that's what they were trying to replicate here.
I mostly agree, except that I don't find it one of the best on the album and I don't feel the need to skip it.
Her vocals are the best part of it, and, yes, "Barbies" is far superior (but it still didn't get a 10 from me).


I didn't lose a 10 in the last 15 cuts (but did lose some of my 'almost 10s'), so I fear that a painful elimination may be coming very soon.
 
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64. Walk Away
Average score: 7.31
Highest score: 10x2 (@Sanctuary, @tylerc904)
Lowest score: 4 (@Sideout)
My score: 8

You throw your hands up and walk away
When times get hard you always walk away
You get mad and say you're leavin'
Why is it so hard for you to talk to me?
When it's so easy for you to walk away

Whilst this did score a low 4 from Sideout, it actually managed 13 7's which may explain why it managed to sneak it's way into 64th position without much of a calling. Poor Sanctuary is losing high scores left, right and center, but 'Walk Away' is definitely one of the best on the album so I'm happy to see it go this far. With clear melodic similarities to her newer material, 'Walk Away' is a fun kiss-off song with a distinctive positive production compared to the rest of the album. I find it to be, as noted by Tyler below, absolutely infectious from start to finish.

Commentary corner:
@P'NutButter: (9) Underrated song!

@rick: (7) She’s cute if unremarkable

@abael: (7) A distinctive chorus would've made this a hit.

@tylerc904: (10) Probably my second favorite non-single on the album (after Save My Life), much like trouble it just has such an infectious energy.

@Music Is Life: (9.5) This is such a great song. I love the production, but her voice is the best part. She sounds so rough, but gentle at the same time. Does that make any sense? Oh, y’all know what I mean. Anyways, great song, love it a lot, it’s so fucking good. And that melody, it’s perfect.

@Maki: (7.5) This instantly sounds like a filler track to me, but there isn't anything in particular I would critique. It's actually pretty catchy and I can hear the early developments of P!nk's melody styles that she would use in her later albums. Perhaps it's too bland compared to most of the tracks from this album.

@R27: (7) This is pleasantly chipper for a kiss off song.

@savilizabeths: (7) “This one has a really cool vibe to it. It’s another one that I think I’ll like even more with time.”
 
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Being my lowest remaining score from "Try This", this is a perfectly acceptable elimination. I expected it to leave earlier, but, yeah, it just sounds like something that would generally receive 7-8 points.
"Walk Away" has indeed an uplifting vibe, which is quite an oddity for "Try This", and is a great song, but just doesn't stand out as much when compared to most of the songs from the album.
Glad that we agree about it almost sounding like it belong to her later albums melodically, @Lost Boy.
By the way, my score for the song is 7,5 but not like that really matters.
 

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