Pink - Raise Your Glass

Tuesday was kind enough to bring me the following:

Currently number 8 on the Billboard 100, we have another song from Pink, following the same formula she's used since her debut back in 2000 - quasi-rock/pop with a driving beat and forgettable lyrics - with one change.  Actual memorable lyrics!

So, has Pink finally honed her craft? No.  Instead, she's become even dumber than before.  Take a look:

"Right right, turn off the lights
We gonna lose our minds tonight
What's the dealio?"

What's the dealio? This is in the first three lines of your song?  We've started off dumb, but let's see what comes next.

"Party crasher, panty snatcher
Call me up if you're a gangsta'
Don't be fancy
Just get dancey
Why so serious?"

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Go listen to this little pre-chorus.  Listen to her say "Call me up if you're a gangsta.'"  Nonononononono.  It doesn't really sound right in the rhyme scheme, and she sounds ridiculous saying it.  Then she rhymes fancy with dancey.  It's so infantile, so... so... stupid that it hurts my head.
Finally, I want to address the "why so serious?" line.  It seems to be a motif of current songs.  Everyone wants to be a wanton party animal, not thinking.

Now check out the chorus:

"So raise your glass if you are wrong
In all the right ways
All my underdogs, we will never be, never be
Anything but loud
And nitty gritty dirty little freaks
Won't you come on, and come on, and
Raise your glass
Just come on and come and
Raise Your Glass!"

Like Lady Gaga and Ke$ha, Pink is glorifying the freak and underdog.  No longer do people try and adjust to social norms (or form small cliques to defend against the hatred of the majority), now they let their freak flag fly.  With so many people championing the freaks and underdogs, it's not like they're unsung or in the shadows.  How many oddball anthems do we need? Look, I'm not saving that everyone needs to conform and be the same.  I'm just having trouble understanding why this theme is coming to the forefront of music today.

"Slam slam oh hot d*mn
What part of party don't you understand?
Wish you'd just freak out (freak out already)
Can't stop coming in hot
I should be locked up right on the spot
It's so on right now (so f*ckin' on right now)"

Blah, blah, blah... we get it Pink. You like to party.  How much more of this do we have to endure?  A few declarations that we should raise our glasses and drink.  (Like the target audience of Pink needs more encouragement to drink - Four Loko, anybody?)

"So if you're too school for cool (I mean...)
And you're treated like a fool (treated like a fool)
You could choose to let it go
We can always, we can always
party on our own..."

Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive.  You're uncool, just party!


That's the whole of the song.  You're an uncool freak, just drink and party.  This is "We R Who We R" with slightly different lyrics.