Don't let me get me
| Don't let me get me | |
|---|---|
| P nk | |
| publication | May 21, 2002 |
| length | 3:31 |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| Author (s) | P! Nk , Dallas Austin |
| album | Missundaztood (2001) |
Don't Let Me Get Me is a rock - pop song by the US singer P! Nk from 2001. The song was written by her with Dallas Austin and was released as a single on May 21, 2002 by Arista Records in Germany released. After Get the Party Started it is the second single from their album Missundaztood . The song is 3:31 minutes long.
content
The song is kept autobiographical . Pink refers in the lyrics to her youth and the beginning of her career as a singer. She describes that she never finished first in the sport, never supported the team and never followed orders. Her socks were never clean, teachers made appointments with her, and her parents hated her. She fought a war against the mirror every day and was a danger to herself. The music producer LA Reid told her that she would become a pop star if she changed everything about herself ("LA told me /" You'll be a pop star / All you have to change / Is everything you are. »“). The text says that she is tired of being compared again and again to Britney Spears , whose beauty does not correspond to the image of her ("Tired of being compared / To damn Britney Spears / She's so pretty / That just ain't me" ). She then asks a doctor to prescribe her a day in someone else's life. She no longer wants to be her friend, but someone else.
reception
Jason Thompson, in his review of the album Missundaztood, considers the lyrics of Don't Let Me Get Me to be the singer's attempt to free herself from her image.
Music video
The music video for the single was made in 2001 under the direction of Dave Meyers . A scene from the music video in which Pink cleans her fingernails with a knife, which she then rams into a door leaf before going on stage at Moore High School, was subsequently pixelated in one version of the video to make the knife unrecognizable . Henry Keazor and Thorsten Wübbena believe the reason for this is an attempt to avoid the association of weapons (knives) and school (Moore Highschool) in the music video.
A making-of for the music video was broadcast on MTV .
Charts
Don't Let Me Get Me reached top 10 positions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, the single reached the top position in New Zealand .
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
10 (15 weeks) | 15th |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
10 (23 weeks) | 23 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
10 (29 weeks) | 29 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
6th (13 weeks) | 13 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
8th (21 weeks) | 21st |
Track list of the single
- Maxi single
- Don't Let Me Get Me (Radio Mix)
- Don't Let Me Get Me (John Shanks Remix)
- Don't Let Me Get Me (Maurice's Nu Soul Mix)
- P! Nk feat. Redman - Get the Party Started / Sweet Dreams
- Don't Let Me Get Me (Video)
Web links
- Do not Let Me Get Me at Discogs (English)
- Music video on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ P! Nk - Don't Let Me Get Me at Discogs . Accessed June 23, 2013
- ↑ Text from Don't Let Me Get Me
- ↑ Jason Thompson: Pink: M! Ssundaztood | Popmatters. In: popmatters.com. November 19, 2001, accessed June 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Dave Meyers - Video Credits. (PDF; 196 kB) (No longer available online.) In: davemeyers.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013 ; accessed on June 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena: Video Thrills the Radio Star . transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89942-728-8 , pp. 131 .
- ↑ broadcast making-of on YouTube : Part 1 and Part 2 . Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ↑ P! Nk - Don't Let Me Get Me. In: charts.org.nz. Accessed June 1, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
