New Pink: “So What” - what do you think?
Melissa Ruggieri
Aug 07, 2008
When Alanis Morissette ranted about a lover who spurned her in “You Oughta Know,” it was presented with the kind of vitriol that sounded gut-wrenchingly real.
When Pink does essentially the same thing on her new single, “So What,” it just sounds immature. (Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTrynxM-qrQ)
Hey, I love Pink. I think she’s one of the coolest pop-rock chicks to come around this decade, and she’s especially appealing when she’s thumbing her nose at the idiots who surround her in the entertainment industry (at least she makes room for a Jessica Simpson line in this one).
The song’s stomping backbeat – a sound so popular right now thanks to Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” – leads into a catchy, guitar-crunching chorus that sounds great musically, but lyrically is annoying self-centered rather than self-deprecating: “So, so what? I am a rockstar/I got my rock moves/And I don’t want you tonight.”
Usually, new Pink songs hook me instantly because there’s some kind of brazen wit woven through them. This time? Not so much.
How about you?
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