Pink wanted to call her latest album “Heartbreak Is A Motherf*cker”, and it’s admittedly a bold move to base not only an entire song cycle on a specific failed romance–in Pink’s case to pro motocross rider Carey Hart–but also to package, promote and tour the disc as such. “Funhouse” in its slimmest version is 18 songs, and by the time you get to the simple piano ballad “Glitter In The Air” a dozen tracks in, the listener feels dumped as well. Good thing Pink and Corey patched thing up–we can’t imagine a world in which our pop stars suffered like real people!
by Mark Emge
