The The Truth About Love [Clean]

by P!nk

Overview

A lot has happened to P!nk since the release of her 2008 breakup album, Funhouse, most notably a reconciliation with her estranged husband, Carey Hart, and subsequent birth of their child in 2011. P!nk wrestles with these two life-changing events and many other thorny issues on her 2012 album, The Truth About Love, a vibrant mess of a record that finds the pop star embracing every one of her contradictions. Alone among the class of 2000 -- a group that roughly includes such other new millennium stars as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, and Jessica Simpson -- P!nk comes across as an actual adult, eager to dive into the muck of grown-up emotions, expanding and deepening her music without succumbing to stuffy pretension. She may be deeply invested in being a wife and mother but she's keenly aware of what's happening outside of her house, offering a clever spin on Ke$ha's freak empowerment on the opening "Are We All We Are," enlisting Fun.'s Nate Ruess as a duet partner on "Just Give Me a Reason," and fiendishly stealing some of the Black Keys' moves and retailoring them for the dancefloor on "How Come You're Not Here." P!nk deftly weaves these new threads into a tapestry that contains a few of her signature moves -- there is a handful of confessional power ballads and snotty, funny pure pop disguised as dance hits -- and some surprises, including cameos from Lily Allen ("True Love") and Eminem ("Here Comes the Weekend") and a title track that is as sunny and carnivalesque as a '60s surf-pop sensation. Sometimes the transitions are too sudden, causing some aural whiplash -- that clomping, heavy "Here Comes the Weekend" wouldn't fit neatly into any sequence -- but its ragged edges underscore the essential appeal of The Truth About Love: nothing about it is neat, it shifts courses and refutes itself, it's "nasty and salty," as P!nk herself sings about true love. It's weird and willfully, proudly human, a big pop album about real emotions and one of P!nk's wildest rides. [A clean version of the disc was also released.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	09/18/2012
Label:	Rca
UPC:	0887254524427
Rank:	88443

Tracks

1. Are We All We Are
2. Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
3. Try
4. Just Give Me a Reason
5. True Love
6. How Come You're Not Here
7. Slut Like You
8. The Truth About Love
9. Beam Me Up
10. Walk of Shame
11. Here Comes the Weekend
12. Where Did the Beat Go?
13. The Great Escape

Album Credits

Performance Credits

P!nk   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background)
Oli Krauss   Violin,Cello,Viola
Tracklacers   Bass,Keyboards
Barbara Klaskin Silberg   Vocal Director
Boyce Buchanan   Children's Voices
Lily Rose Cooper   Featured Artist
Anders Mouridsen   Guitar
Steve Wolf   Tambourine
Willow Sage Hart   Bells
Chin Ijeti   Bass
Pete Wallace   Keyboards
David Campbell   String Conductor
Shellback   Bass,Drums,Guitar,Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Liz Rodrigues   Vocals (Background)
David Schuler   Bass,Drums,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Sara Parkins   Violin
Tamara Hatwan   Violin
Nate Ruess   Featured Artist
Billy Mann   Percussion,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Bass,Drums,Piano
Eminem   Featured Artist
Max Martin   Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Danny Keyz   Keyboards
Chin Injeti   Bass
Jeff Bhasker   Keyboards,Synthesizer
Butch Walker   Vocals (Background)
Dave Schuler   Bass,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Andrew Duckles   Viola
Lily Allen   Featured Artist
Dan Wilson   Piano,Keyboards,Guitar (Acoustic)
DJ Khalil   Keyboards
Steve Richards   Cello
Dave Stone   Bass
Phillip A. Peterson   Strings
Kevin Dukes   Guitar
Greg Kurstin   Bass,Guitar,Keyboards
Jonathan Yudkin   Strings
Jake Sinclair   Vocals (Background)
Erik Alcock   Guitar
Zachary Baird   Keyboards

Technical Credits

Tracklacers   Arranger,Producer,Drum Programming
John Rausch   Engineer
Lily Rose Cooper   Composer
Eric Isip   Mixing Assistant
James Krausse   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Jeri Heidin   Design,Art Direction
Laura Sik   Engineer
Shady Farshadfar   Management
John X. Valaitis   Engineer
Phil Allen   Engineer,Engineer
John Graham Hill   Composer,Producer
Khalil Abdul-Rahman   Composer
Jonathan Yudkin   String Arrangements,Composer,Engineer
Deborah Anderson   Photography
Pete Wallace   Engineer,String Arrangements
Rich Costey   Mixing
Ben West   Composer
David Campbell   String Arrangements
Shellback   Composer,Producer,Programming
Chris Kasych   Engineer,Pro-Tools
Tom Coyne   Mastering
Liz Rodrigues   Composer
David Schuler   Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Drum Programming,Keyboard Programming
Andrew MacPherson   Photography
Sam Holland   Engineer
P!nk   Composer
Marshall Mathers   Composer
Phil Seaford   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Nate Ruess   Composer
John Brown   Additional Production,Additional Production
Jesse Shatkin   Engineer
Nick Steinhardt   Design,Art Direction
Veronica Ferraro   Mixing
Billy Mann   Engineer,Producer,Drum Programming,Keyboard Programming,Arranger,Composer
Irene Taylor   Management
John Hanes   Mixing,Producer,Mixing Engineer
John X. Volaitis   Engineer,Assistant Engineer,Recording Assistant
Mark Needham   Mixing
Roger Davies   Management
Max Martin   Composer,Producer
Jeff Bhasker   Composer,Producer,Programming
Emile Haynie   Composer,Producer
Charlie Paakkari   String Engineer
Chin Injeti   Producer
John Hill   Composer
Jon Keep   Composer
Nick Cua   Tour Manager
Oliver Straus   Engineer
Mike Strange   Vocal Engineer
Laura Sisk   Engineer
Serban Ghenea   Mixing
Tony Maserati   Mixing
Will Brierre   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Lisa Garrett   Management
Butch Walker   Composer,Producer
Dave Schuler   Arranger,Engineer,Producer,Drum Programming
Dan Wilson   Composer,Producer
DJ Khalil   Producer
Mike Busbee   Composer
Greg Kurstin   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Jake Sinclair   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Justin Hergett   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Erik Alcock   Composer
Pranam Injeti   Composer
Steve Daly   Composer
Tyler Johnson   Guitar Engineer
Pawel Sek   Guitar Engineer