No it isn't.Whataya Want from Me being the last track standing from the Best Of is correct.
Hit single doesn't always equate quality song. We've almost reached the 8 mark anyway so...I cannot deal with the lack of taste you guys have. Honestly. It’s borderline offensive that you even call yourselves fans of her when you’re booting out her career highs and saying they’re crap and yet every single from her worst album is still in the running. Truly tragic.
@Music Is Life: (11) So yeah. This is my 11. From the moment this rate was put into the queue, I was 100% positive this would be my 11, and the only time I’ve really questioned that is with happy, so for one, P!nk did that in 2019 on her new album. Before I get to why it’s this, I need to talk about the actual song. Ignoring the lyrics for now, I love the production. It’s very uplifting and anthemic, especially in like the final minute with the drums and the strings, which I’m sure was on purpose. And the acoustic guitar throughout, it’s one of my favorite uses of that instrument in any song by any artist. And the melody is so catchy and perfect and amazing. And the lyrics, are maybe a little clunky and awkward, but so is P!nk.![]()
41. Fucking Perfect
Average score: 7.83
Highest score: 11 (@Music Is Life)
10x4: (@Lost Boy, @Sprockrooster, @Sideout, @Remorque)
Lowest score: 2 (@LiK)
Spare a thought for @Music Is Life, who loses their beloved eleven just before the top 40. Unfortunately I've seen a lot of criticism for this, that I really don't think it deserves, because it's a fairly cliche empowerment anthem. Originally written as a love song for Carey, P!nk recognised the potential and began turning it into an anthem for her fans - many of whom struggle daily with personal insecurities.
I started writing ['F**kin' Perfect'] about Carey. And then I started writing it for the fans, and for all these little girls, and then it just became about me and it was just sort of for everybody. And then it was about this thing inside of me that I didn’t even know yet. It’s just all of it.
And for me that just adds to the charm, I've never really seen it as just an empowerment anthem and it wasn't written with that solely in mind. It encapsulates love, worth, self-acceptance, and is essentially just a very well written love song. Lyrically it has one of the strongest opening verses I know, and some really hard hitting lines in the verses that reference her past hits, and melodically it is absolutely stunning. It really did feel like a moment when she released it and it still kind of feels like one now? As though this song was always sitting inside of her waiting to be written, and it is integral to her career.
Sometimes I feel like it's really easy to shit on tracks like this that are built at helping people, as though people shouldn't ever be in a position to require them, but quite honestly these tracks are so necessary to some people. Hearing the emotional vulnerability on display here makes me feel less alone for four minutes and that's kind of what music is really all about?
I also adore the production and the middle-8 section, despite a few people calling that out as a reason for them not liking it. There's this nostalgic classic feeling that comes with it that kind of reminds me of 'Where Is the Love?'. Personally I think this song is just timeless.
Commentary corner:
The lyrics are also heartfelt and honest, something that also applies to this beautiful, amazing woman. And they’re the main reason my 11 is going to this song is as well as everything it’s done for me. I was 10 years old when it came out and already a huge P!nk fan. But as soon as I heard it for the first time, it became my favorite P!nk song. Because for years throughout elementary school, I was bullied. Consistently, especially by one person who I used to trust and think was a friend. This led to a breakdown of my mental health as a kid, and a desire to make everything stop. If I hadn’t known what it would do to my parents and if I had any real knowledge of how to do it, I would have committed suicide. As it was, I forced myself to endure school almost every day, though I would fake being sick whenever I could. Those distractions were mostly reading – I’d read anything I cpould get my hands, cause books always took – and continue to take – me to a world that was better, and music, because with headphones in, I couldn’t hear what everyone was saying. But after this song came out, that’s when I started to really turn to music. I had always loved music, listening to it and jamming out. But this song was the first time I had ever felt like something had been made for me.
Like it was something P!nk wanted me to hear specifically, cause she knew what I was going through. I know that’s a little ridiculous, but remember, I was 10. But because I felt like she was singing to me, even though I didn’t believe her words, I believed her feelings. She wanted me to keep going so I did. Now, there were a bunch of songs with a message like this that came out for a few years, which I’m sure we all know. But this is the first one I can really remember hearing, or at least the first one that really hit me, and helped me. It would take me another 4-5 years before I could really start exploring music, but P!nk and this song is what helped lead me to trying that. And it’s because of this song that one of my first CDs was her greatest hits, which I think I got when I was like 12 or 13, and it ended up being the clean edition, but I ended up getting two more copies, but explicit, of the album, so it’s all good. This song is also why I will always, always be here for P!nk and her music. So yeah, this is my 11 and that’s why. I know this isn’t well liked on here but please, please let it make top 30.
@Sprockrooster: (10) That extra adlib in the non-explicit version sends me to heaven every damn time.
@rick: (9) She gets accused of ‘Mom rock’ a lot but this is the best example of it. Still a great little ditty though
@Sail On: (9) Corny and cheesy lyrics aside, this led the charge among the It Gets Better campaign era singles for me to not feel so "less than" when I was so young.
@P'NutButter: (9) This does sound like a Kelly Clarkson track, but in the best way. I love the chorus.
@savilizabeths: (9) “P!nk has a surprising amount of “inspirational” material in her discography, and I do like this one quite a lot. It’s not lyrically perfect, but it definitely makes up for that in passion and melody. It does make me feel better, and it has GODDAMN STRINGS! Some people seem to check out when they sing songs like this and just not care, I love that P!nk doesn’t do that at all.”
@Laurence: (9) Yeah, I'm a sucker for these tracks and it's a beautiful one. From this moment on they started spinning P!NK so much for the female over 30? 40? age bracket on radio and the Dutch station 'skyradio' for it. Yeah, but I like the track anyway.
@Maki: (8.75) My favorite new song on her greatest hits album, but it’s still not… well, perfect. There are traces of sadness in it that I definitely appreciate, but as a whole it doesn’t work as much as it could. The pre-chorus is beautiful, and the chorus is powerful, so why bother with the rap in the bridge? Still, the great elements of the song overpower the weak ones.
@abael: (8) A brilliantly crafted song and very fitting for Pink. It just comes off as fake to me
@Verandi: (6) This aged terribly
@sapnu puas: (5) it’s like a parody of a Pink song.
@R27: (4.5) I'm not used to hearing the explicit version, and that f-bomb feels so forced, as if P!nk and her team didn't believe the song had enough grit on it's own. I'll admit that she sings the song with conviction, but that awful bridge trivializes the more serious themes the song grapples with ("they don't like my hair"), and ultimately tarnishes most of the goodwill I have towards the song.
I cannot deal with the lack of taste you guys have. Honestly. It’s borderline offensive that you even call yourselves fans of her when you’re booting out her career highs and saying they’re crap and yet every single from her worst album is still in the running. Truly tragic.
Where did I mention “hit single”? I said career highs.Hit single doesn't always equate quality song. We've almost reached the 8 mark anyway so...
Goodbye masterpiece. I'll miss you.![]()
40. I Got Money Now
It's fine. It probably wouldn't have done much better without the two.This is now bitter sweet since I tanked @Music Is Life #11 so sorry <3
Thanks you.Aw, sad to see @Music Is Life losing his 11 just before top 40.
Thank you. I wasn't originally planning to get that personal but when I got to the song in my rating I ended up putting it on repeat and just writing down all my feelings and that's what came out.Fucking Perfect is another song I used to absolutely hate when it was inescapable, but listening to it now it's actually alright.
Your commentary was great @Music Is Life. It's easy to turn our noses up at these types of songs, but it's fantastic how they actually can have a positive impact on people's lives.
Sorry, didn't mean to but thank you. :)After reading that commentary I’m so glad I didn’t underscore F*cking Perfect. @Music Is Life i relate and you made my eyes leak :-)
It is wrong!Ave Mary A going before Funhouse feels wrong.