Not your typical ‘Funhouse’

Back with her fifth album Funhouse, Pink has seemingly ditched her “badass” persona for this album and is bearing all after a very public divorce with motocross star Carey Hart. Her past albums have all had the same “screw you” mentality, but not this time.

She may have a few tracks you would expect to hear musically, but lyrically she has opened a whole new can of worms and made a complete 180 from songs like “Stupid Girls” from her last album I’m Not Dead.

Pink sings one song after another about and to her ex-husband. She guides you through her emotions, singing “Please, please don’t leave me” over and over in “Please Don’t Leave Me” and “I’m going to show you tonight / I’m all right / I’m just fine, and you’re a tool / So what” in “So What.”

Here, she hides her playful, spunky style and is singing from a much more mature place. It’s as if she took her diary of heartache and anger and made an entire album out of it.

While this album may be called Funhouse, there doesn’t seem to be anything but spite when she sings “This used to be a funhouse, but now it’s filled with evil clowns.”  

Although Pink might never be able to shake her bad girl reputation, she has somehow found a way to incorporate her signature voice and in-your-face lyrics to expose a more vulnerable and honest side of herself.

She has proven with this album she has more to sing about than stereotypes and getting the party started. Pink has shown her versatility while still holding true to the musical elements that set her apart from other female artists.

Although the subject matter may not be the same as her previous work, this is an album you can listen to from start to finish.