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You+Me is the project of P!nk and Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, two of the most notable voices in music today. While such prominent voices rarely mix too seamlessly, P!nk and Green were destined to harmonize together. The duo already dropped their gentle lead track "You And Me" weeks ago, and now, the duo returns with a heartfelt new selection, "Break the Cycle," from their upcoming duet debut record, "rose ave," out on October 14.
The powerful chilling ballad and somewhat-haunting Americana track, "Break the Cycle," is a love song dedicated to P!nk's mother, and it emphasizes the two singers' incredible harmonies over subtle guitar strumming and stirring strings. P!nk is embarking on a new musical journey, joining Green for a foray into folk that steers far from her more familiar rowdy behavior. Keeping in line with the acoustically driven tone of their gentle first track, "You and Me," strings float in and out as P!nk and Green sit an octave apart atop sparse strums during the verses.
In the chorus, the duo harmonizes with a more upbeat feel, and declares across the hopeful chorus that matched in lyrics like, "Let me heal the wounds you've held onto for all these years/ Break the cycle, break the chains/ Love is louder than all your pain." P!nk has always been excellent at conveying strong emotions in her music, and this stripped-down production shows her softer folk and country music side and only allows her words to stand out stronger than ever.
Described as 'a passion project' for the talented two, they've opted for low-key with a simple, yet elegant accompanying video to "Break The Cycle." The grainy, sepia-toned video appears to be filmed in the countryside, and showing the singers parading and singing around in a mountainous country setting, which perfectly suits the song's simple yet majestic arrangement. Filmed with an old-school grainy filter, "Break the Cycle" enhances the country vibe with You+Me's hip Little House on the Prairie-esque looks.

P!nk recognizing that despite his faults, she still loves her husband in the just premiered colorful video for her mid-tempo collaboration with British singer-songwriter Lily Allen, "True Love," a maddeningly catchy standout which serves as second promotional single and the fourth official single from P!nk's latest sixth studio album, "The Truth About Love." The track also marks Lily's first release since she "retired" in 2009. She is incorrectly credited as Lily Allen in the video title, despite changing her name to Lily Rose Cooper after her wedding.
The pop rock number takes its influences from summery 90s' pop jams is ode to realizing you have found your true love. It shows a softer, cuddlier side of the pop star, giving us a peek into her personal life, includes amusing lines about marital love and frustration like. The bittersweet ballad is about the ups and downs within a relationship as P!nk and Lily duetting with each taking a verse before they sing together on the chorus. Over a sunny beat, the track features such pithy, sharp-tongued lyrics. The 33-year-old singer says that the song is about her relationship with Carey Hart and she finds the song funny lyrically.
P!nk trades lyrics with Lily on this track, which finds the pair singing about the frustrations of falling in love. It was the first song that the artist formerly known as Lily Allen has appeared on under her new married name. The pair recorded their verses separately. "I met her for the first time after the song was recorded, but I'm a super fan of hers," P!nk told Capital FM. She added: "I just met her for the first time when she came and sang that song with me on VH1 Storytellers. It was very strange to meet someone for the first time on stage, but I think she's awesome - she's so sweet."
Directed by P!nk most likely, the accompanying clip, is that age-old conscript, and a melody of flashing and swirling colors, finds P!nk cavorting about with her motocross-racer husband and their 2-year-old daughter, Willow at home, follows the family as they travel with P!nk on her "The Truth About Love" world tour. It also features an old school goofy vibe, some flashy psychedelic colors, as P!nk sings about her frustration with her husband sometimes but also really loves him, too. While Lily is seen inexplicably whips up a veggie smoothie and angrily chopping up vegetables before popping them in a blender.

Shows her vulnerability, P!nk has just unwrapped another visually arresting video for her duet with Fun.'s lead singer Nate Ruess, "Just Give Me a Reason," the third single from the 33-year-old singer's latest sixth album, "The Truth About Love." Surprise, it's surreally dramatic! The stunning visuals and a compelling narrative render the clip a winner. This emotionally heavy video has P!nk contemplating her broken relationship.
The mid-tempo ballad plays out like a traditional love ballad between a couple. The stripped down, piano-based track begins with P!nk lying alone tossing and turning in bed. With flashbacks of her former flame, she tries to convince herself that they're not broken up and the two can learn to love again. P!nk sings the love tune so beautifully, and the chorus is little gem. Although it's a little jarring to hear P!nk's raw, live vocals paired with Ruess' Auto-Tune, it's ultimately a less-schmaltzy version of those male/female duets found at the end credits of every 80s movie.
The video was filmed last November and was directed by the starry Diane Marte and it is far from P!nk's best visual effort, but it fits the song well. While it's not a physical spectacle like "Try," it's a simple, yet stunning effort, takes on a dream-like quality and centered on P!nk writhing around on a mattress in the middle of a foggy body of water. She and Ruess also belt out verses side-by-side against a white backdrop, but instead of sharing the bed with Ruess, she's snuggling up to her real-life husband Carey Hart.
The married and very fit couple put on a sultry display in romantic interludes while both laying on a bed expressing all their love for each other she belts out the passionate song. P!nk also hangs onto a teddy bear when she isn't hanging on to husband, while floating on a floating mattress in the water about a relationship that seems to be missing something very important. Complete with a glowing teddy bear and surprise appearance from Hart, the singer's imagination runs wild in another memorable video.

P!nk followed up her sassy anthem "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" with the more emotional ballad "Try," which is accompanied by a well-choreographed, primal, physically aggressive video. When she was teasing this new video, P!nk explained that it was her favorite video ever to shoot, and now we know why. The clip, which premiered Wednesday morning on Vevo, is elegant, complicated and audacious with an artfully choreographed performance - like P!nk at her best.
The ethereal new single "Try," the second single from the 33-year-old singer's sixth studio album, "The Truth About Love," is a jacked-up ballad, modeled on '80s FM rock that was written by Ben West and Michael Busbee, and is built around two-volume arrangement, and much less bombastic than that first cut, using a quiet verse/loud chorus dynamic, with spacey synths and distant guitar squalls alternating with a wave of percussion and overdrive during the refrain.She can write with anyone from any genre and turn the result into a great, personality-drenched pop song.
Over the course of her decade-long career, P!nk's always pushed herself to the limit. Whether that meant dangling upside down some 60 feet in the air, blowing a bunch of stuff up, or pulling off the kind of acrobatic moves that would give Cirque du Soleil pause, she seemingly prides herself in going further than any of her pop contemporaries would ever dare. So it should probably come as no surprise that, in her new video for "Try," she's at it again, only this time, P!nk's not relying on props to take things to the next level that writhes with passion, tension and precision, and tells the story of a relationship taken to the brink and back.
Directed by Floria Sigismondi and choreographed by The Golden Boyz along with P!nk's trapeze partner Sebastien Stella, the video is inspired to reinvent the Apache Dance. This aggressive and acrobatic, yet beautiful and passionate interpretative dance is a physical expression of the battle between men and women. It is the dance that drives the story about sticky situations one may face when it comes to love, situations that P!nk sings about in her song. It is definitely a work of art, and uniquely, unquestionably P!nk, who continues to push herself to the limit, and pulls it off with effortless grace. Your move, everyone else.

Pink is back with a dreamy, cinematic black-and-white visuals for veteran pop star's new empowering breakup anthem, "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)," the lead single from her upcoming sixth studio album, "The Truth About Love," which is due out on September 18. Considering it to be a welcome return to form, the 32-year-old bustier-rocking beauty has had her heart broken and is seeking revenge by crashing her ex's wedding and making it rain pink paint all over the party!
Little had been heard from Pink since 2010, as she had taken time off to be a mother to her baby daughter Willow. Motherhood has evidently not tamed Pink. The feisty songstress tells her ex on this break-up tune, "You will pay for your sins, you'll be sorry my dear. All the lies, all the lies, will be crystal clear." Produced by Kelly Clarkson collaborator Greg Kurstin, the track is an uptempo pop rock and dance-pop song with mix of Clarkson girl-power sass-tastic with Pink's signature lyrical edge and I-can-do-just-fine-on-my-own attitude.
"The moment I heard it and it was finished, I thought, 'This is the song at 2 a.m., in New York, dancing, drunk, letting off steam'," Pink told MTV News about the driving pop tune. It feels like something that Clarkson could have featured on her own album, but it's got a rocked-out, in-your-face edge that is signature Pink, who is always at her best when she combines her powerful vocals with edgy, biting lyrics. She added: "It's a really fun song. I can picture everyone extremely drunk dancing late at night together. It's a very happy song, although it's angry."
Directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers, the vintage clip is a whimsical nod to classic French cinema, all overwrought emoting and smoky, dream-like scenery. It opens with Pink and her potential paramour enjoying a picnic in an idyllic meadow, where she is about to submit to his wily charms until he makes the fatal error of taking a phone call... And perhaps most tellingly, Pink returns to the role she knows best: She's always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Of course, what we love most about her is she's the kind of bridesmaid that gets revenge and delights in doing so. You could probably even say it makes her happy.

Treating her fans to a brand new offering, Pink has created a harrowing video for her hit single "F**kin' Perfect" (clean version is called "Perfect"). Directed by David Meyers, the lensman behind Katy Perry's "Firework" video, chronicles the painful struggle and abusive life of a young girl (played by "Napleon Dynamite" alum Tina Majorino), who is battling personal demons throughout the duration of her life. The intense, disturbing, and hopeful video also comes with a very heartfelt and passionate personal note from Pink. The track is the second single from her first compilation album, "Greatest Hits... So Far!!!."
Pink isn't afraid to get gritty or graphic, and therein lies its power. The expecting 31-year-old singer's new video wades into some pretty dark waters: attempted suicide, gruesome self-mutilation, an implied eating disorder, and an overarching theme of soul-crushing social alienation. However, despite the disturbing content, rest assured, this story has a happy ending. Pink sings her heart out in her mega powerful new video for her latest song. "I'm sure my newest video for "F**kin' Perfect" will be much like some of my other videos, which basically means I expect it will ruffle some feathers," she wrote in her personal note on her official site.
The songstress also made it clear that she doesn't endorse self-destructive behavior, but instead wants to create open dialogue about the issue. "It's a problem, and it's something we should talk about. We can choose to ignore the problem, and therefore ignore this video, but that won't make it go away," she wrote. "Making this video was a very emotional experience for me, as was writing this song... I don't support or encourage suicide or cutting. I support the kids out there that feel so desperate/numb/powerless, that feel unseen and unheard, and can't see another way... I want them to know I'm aware. I have been there. I see them. Sometimes that's all it takes."
When Pink released her career retrospective, "Greatest Hits...So Far!!!" last November, she was nice enough to include two new singles on the collection: "Raise Your Glass" and "F**kin' Perfect." And, in many ways, these tracks are two sides of the same coin. Both songs deal with overcoming obstacles, believing in yourself and persevering in the face of great odds. But while "Raise Your Glass" was a storming rah-rah anthem about "little freaks," "F**kin' Perfect" is a more somber, dire affair, although ultimately a triumphant one, and its' new video is an outreach to the outcasts, an extended hand to those on the fringes of society, one that comes with an empowering and all-too-often unheard message of hope. If Pink's new video doesn't make you cry or cringe at some point, you've got thicker skin than we do.

Pink is releasing her the lead single "Raise Your Glass" with the forthcoming "Greatest Hits... So Far!!!" set, drops on November 16 and she's moving full-steam ahead with the music video to the track. The anthemic upbeat song was produced by Swedish hitmaker Max Martin and co-written by Pink and raises a glass to all the "dirty little freaks" out there, who are "wrong in all the right ways."
"Rosie the Riveter" represented the American women who worked in factories during World War II and famously used the slogan "We Can Do It!" Pink explained to Alex James on the UK-based radio show In: Demand that this song is a celebration for those who feel left out from the popular crowd. "I had been on the road for two years and I hadn't written anything and I wanted to write a song about underdogs. Instead of going and becoming a cover girl and endorsement girl and popular girl and having No.1s, I kind of just hit the road and pounded the pavement and became a touring artist," she said. "You don't have to be popular when you're a touring artist, you just have to be good, and this is just a celebration and a thank you."
Raising one's glass towards someone or something and then drinking is a low key form of a toast, a traditional ritual in which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill. Proposing a toast dates back to religious rituals practiced by the ancient Greeks, where at ceremonial meals they poured out drinks for both their gods and the dead. A vessel of wine would then be lifted in the direction of a member of the dinner party and the words "It is to you" would be said. The container was then handed to whoever had been toasted to drink from. The 31-year-old spunky pop star is hard at work filming a video. Instead of having a toast with her glass, Pink raises her right arm and shows off some muscles as she channels "Rosie the Riveter" in this first look shot; She represents a hard-working woman, dressing up as "Rosie the Riveter" with a red bandanna on her hair.
The Dave Meyers-directed video is an ode to the underdog and the video itself is based around one of Pink's real-life experiences, and features a celebration of gay marriage, expressing her views that people should not feel any differently towards gay marriage than normal marriage. Pink commented on the video in an interview for MTV: "I threw my best friend's wedding in my backyard - she is gay and she married her wife, and it was absolutely beautiful. At the end of it, her mom said, 'Why can't this be legal?' and started crying. It was just the most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen, so that's why I'm doing it in my video."

A new music video in companion to the pop rock artist Pink's latest openhearted single "I Don't Believe You" has hit the web, featuring the singer as a sad bride. She is seen wandering alone through an empty building full of tables and chairs set up for the reception and her groom is nowhere to be seen.
"I Don't Believe You" is a song released as the sixth single from her fifth studio album "Funhouse". Musically, the song is a mid-tempo pop ballad, and the guitar and piano are used for the background. Pink explained on her website that, lyrically, the song is all about pleading for reconciliation, and is her favourite song "because it's just so naked. It's like taking a deep breathe and saying, 'Here I am. Take me. Take your best shot'." She went on to explain of the emotional track that: "The first thing that comes to my mind with "I Don't Believe You" is me standing in the vocal booth listening. Actually in the control room listening to this song, tears running down my face, just like 'fuck, really?' It's the vulnerable weak side of me that I don't let out very often. And it's that song. And I love it, I love it. I just love it, it's very near and dear to me." This heart-wrenching ballad track is penned by Pink partnering with top-notch producer/songwriter Max Martin.
The music video for "I Don't Believe You," directed by Sophie Muller, was shot in September in Los Angeles. The video is in black and white, it features Pink in a white wedding dress she wore to her real wedding as she searches for her lover, to no avail. Scenes include Moore lying down in the dress, running around what appears to be the inside of a church, and singing to herself in front of the mirror.
Jonathan Keefe from Slant Magazine praised the song, its sparse electric guitar riff, and Pink's "phenomenal vocal turn that is both vulnerable and accusatory", while New York Times reporter Jon Caramanica claimed "I Don't Believe You" swells like a classic soul ballad, as Pink pleads for a lover to reconsider walking away. Everyone knows that Pink can do cheeky pop-punk better than most. But, on this single, she proves there's another side to her music. In fact, "I Don't Believe You" finds Pink channelling her inner Mariah and delivering one of her strongest, most emotional vocal performances to date. It's the perfect creamy, indulgent dessert after the spicy, flavoursome main course of Pink's usual fare. There's no fist-pumping chorus or naughty lyrics for her to hide behind here.