Pink, the new Bob Dylan?

[Xstr8guy]

This should make you cry... unless you're desslock.

Dear Mr. President

[Huskyhunks]

Wow, damn, i just cried watching that, damn you Xtr8guy, I feel silly. Just an amazing powerful song and performance.

[Xstr8guy]

Wow, damn, i just cried watching that, damn you Xtr8guy, I feel silly. Just an amazing powerful song and performance.

Lol, HH. It's ok. Men can cry... especially gay men, It's one of the many benefits of being gay.

C'mon the rest of you. I dare you to watch this vid and not at least get a little teary-eyed.

[longboardjim]

very nice! , a bit different from "you make me sick" and "don't let me get me" , not that i listen to her. :goof:

jim

[sarahwebinc]

she tries but I wouldn't say Dylan

[jIgG]

awesome song!!
True and a real tear-jerker, maybe because it is all true.
Lover her voice too

tried to paste it the other day but Youtube went into 'maintenance mode'

its all over the web, even made it to Countdown on MSNBC.

[Paco]

I do not have/own any of her 'stuff', but I do love her and her offbeat ways. Her video 'Stupid Girl' (or whatever it's titled) is simply hah-hah.

I truly hope she does not go the way of Bif!

[Dzinerbear]

Wow! Amazing. Just bought her CD last week, but haven't had a chance to listen to it. Now I'm glad I did.

Michael

[XXXWriterDude]

I couldn't get the link to work for me, but I have the new CD and I'm actually not a fan of this song. I love Pink as a performer, and "Stupid Girls" is a great song and video, but I find this to be a little precious and overwrought for my tastes. I'm all for taking Bush to task and saying "important things" in your work, but one thing I have a knee-jerk reaction to is heavy-handedness and melodrama. And these lyrics are woefully melodramatic. Like a poem that a 14-year-old would write in her journal when she's feeling saddened by all the sad things in the world. Doesn't make me cry. Makes me groan.

[Xstr8guy]

she tries but I wouldn't say Dylan

The Dylan camparison was more of a joke. But I can honestly say that I've never been so moved by a protest song before. Keep screaming Pink! You may just help change a few young minds in the process.

[Xstr8guy]

I couldn't get the link to work for me, but I have the new CD and I'm actually not a fan of this song. I love Pink as a performer, and "Stupid Girls" is a great song and video, but I find this to be a little precious and overwrought for my tastes. I'm all for taking Bush to task and saying "important things" in your work, but one thing I have a knee-jerk reaction to is heavy-handedness and melodrama. And these lyrics are woefully melodramatic. Like a poem that a 14-year-old would write in her journal when she's feeling saddened by all the sad things in the world. Doesn't make me cry. Makes me groan.

Oh my god! Do you have to over-analyze everything? Btw, the link works fine for me.

[XXXWriterDude]

Oh my god! Do you have to over-analyze everything? Btw, the link works fine for me.

It's kinda what I get paid to do for a living, buddy.

Above that, it's simply a personal reaction to the execution of the song, just as your love of the song is your reaction. I could say you are UNDER-analyzing the song. Right?

[Xstr8guy]

It's kinda what I get paid to do for a living, buddy.

Above that, it's simply a personal reaction to the execution of the song, just as your love of the song is your reaction. I could say you are UNDER-analyzing the song. Right?

grudgingly... I suppose you have the right to think the way you do. I chose to feel from my heart, you chose to think with your brain. And I agree, the lyrics are a bit heavy-handed. But at this point, nothing can drive the message home better than screaming at the top of your lungs, "I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!"

[XXXWriterDude]

grudgingly... I suppose you have the right to think the way you do. I chose to feel from my heart, you chose to think with your brain. And I agree, the lyrics are a bit heavy-handed. But at this point, nothing can drive the message home better than screaming at the top of your lungs, "I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!"

LOL! I get that. Occasionally I've been known to walk out of a movie like Broken Hearts Club or Stepmom and say, "You know what? On a strictly "pedestrian" (for lack of better word) level, that was fun. It was totally sappy and formulaic, but I can see how some would find it entertaining."

I'm much more of a Bill Maher or Augusten Burroughs type of guy, where I think you can express the same sentiments without the shameless sentimentality. Tugging on the heartstrings, to me, is just such an easy way to go about it, so I don't have as much appreciation for it. I like wit and for people to be clever, rather than taking the easy way out. Her sentiments are fine; it's the execution I don't appreciate. Bad poetry offends me.

I suppose it's a bit of a curse that I am an entertainment journalist who writes reviews. I honestly have a hard time watching or listenting to anything with anything short of a critical eye (or ear). I immediately form opinions on everything I see because of this. Some of my friends get exasperated, as you can imagine. They all think I'm too opinionated. But if I wasn't, I wouldn't have a job.

Then again, I think I've been trained to not accept anything at face value, and analyzing is, to me, the difference between the sheep (followers) and the doers.

God, that sounds snotty! Sorry if it comes off that way. I'm just always in journalist mode.