Pink released her first song 'There You Go' in 2000 and is planning to produce her sixth album this year. Pink's career accomplishments so far include three Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards. The musical category most critics agree Pink is a part of would be 'pop-rock' as many of her songs are seen as edgy and truthful. Her appearance is continuously evolving although mostly always containing a short boyish hair style, either being white, pale pink or black.
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By choosing a song by 'Pink' has allowed me and my group to present a video with a lot of emotion and meaning to it, much like the lyrics in the majority of this artists songs. Many of her songs are about anger, depression, addiction and hatred. We felt that portraying a video with these emotions would be easier than portraying a video of the opposite of this, as it may look like a forced emotion, whereas a blank expression is easy for any person, and so choosing a main character would be much easier with this theme.
These are the lyrics to the song we have chosen, 'F*ckin' Perfect':
Made a wrong turn, once or twice
Dug my way out, blood and fire
Bad decisions, that's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss, no way it's all good, it didn't slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing
Underestimated, look, I'm still around
Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than, less than perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing you are perfect to me
You're so mean when you talk
About yourself, you are wrong
Change the voices in your head
Make them like you instead
So complicated, look how big you'll make it
Filled with so much hatred, such a tired game
It's enough, I've done all I can think of
Chased down all my demons, see you do the same
Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than, less than perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing, you are perfect to me
The whole world stares while I swallow the fear
The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in lying and we tried, tried, tried
But we try too hard, it's a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics 'cause they're everywhere
They don't like my genes, they don't get my hair
Strange ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that? Why do I do that?
Why do I do that?
Ooh, pretty, pretty, pretty
Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than, less than perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing, you are perfect to me
You are perfect to me
You're perfect, you're perfect to me
Pretty, pretty please if you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than, less than perfect
Pretty, pretty please if you ever, ever feel
Like you're nothing, you are perfect to me
This song is ultimatley about exceptance of yourself and that other peoples
opinions and feelings shouldn't be taken so seriously. P!nk was said to have written this song as she was inspired by her husband. She wanted to highlight the effect of self-mutilation, depression and suicide to her audience in order to convey their seriousness. The original video contains graphic images of self harming the word 'perfect' on to the main characters arm with a razor, which is disturbing for many viewers. It portrays the life of the main character from a child to teenager to adult throughout the whole video, conveying the struggles she has been through in order to reach her current position in life.
P!nk uses a time ellipses in her video which we would also like to recreate in ours. The translation of time happens in a way which shows the end of the story at the beginning of the video, which is something we would like to incorporate into our own video. It then depicts the story behind the main character and how they arrived at that current place, ending with the same start and ending scene. We feel this would be worthwhile to our work as we could closely compare it to the original video, yet make it our own by changing elements.
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