''I'm Not Dead'' is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter
Pink
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. It was released on April 4, 2006, through
LaFace Records
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and
Jive Records
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. Following the commercial underperformance of her third studio album ''
Try This
''Try This'' is the third studio album by American singer Pink, released on November 11, 2003, by Arista Records. Wanting to expand more on the rock sound, which she explored on her previous record, '' Missundaztood'', for ''Try This'' Pink colla ...
'' (2003), Pink parted ways with
Arista Records
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and began experimenting with new sounds and collaborating with new producers, and stated she named the album after having an
epiphany
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Psychology
* Epiphany (feeling), an experience of sudden and striking insight
Religion
* Epiphany (holiday), a Christian holiday celebrating the revelation of God the Son as a human being in Jesus Christ
** Epiphany seaso ...
about adult responsibilities and the realities of everyday life. Pink served as the executive producer of the project and contributions to the album's production came from several producers including
Billy Mann
William Hort-Mann (né Isaiah Erlichman; born December 20, 1968) is an American record producer and songwriter. He is known for producing " 3 Is Family" by Dana Dawson in 1995 as well as ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 40 hits such as " For You I ...
,
Butch Walker
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,
Dr. Luke
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and
.
Commercially, ''I'm Not Dead'' peaked at number six on the
''Billboard'' 200 chart in the United States, and reached number one in several territories including
Australia
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,
Austria
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,
Germany
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,
New Zealand
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, and
Switzerland
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. ''I'm Not Dead'' has since been certified double platinum in the United States and certified gold in
Finland
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,
Denmark
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, and
Sweden
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. The album received positive reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented the risks Pink took on the record as well as her experimentation with rock music.
"
Stupid Girls
"Stupid Girls" is a song recorded by American singer Pink (singer), Pink from her fourth studio album ''I'm Not Dead'' (2006). It was released in February 2006 as the first single from her third studio album on LaFace Records. The song marked Pi ...
" was released as the
lead single
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A similar term, "debut ...
from ''I'm Not Dead'' ahead of the album's release, which generated controversy for its lyrical content and music video, for which Pink received the
MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video
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and a nomination for the
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
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. Five additional singles were released from the album, with "
Who Knew" and "
U + Ur Hand
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" reaching the top 10 of the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in the United States. Pink promoted the album through radio and television interviews, media appearances, and the
I'm Not Dead Tour
The I'm Not Dead Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter Pink (singer), Pink. Launched in support of her fourth studio album, ''I'm Not Dead'' (2006) the tour reached Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia.
Bac ...
.
Background
Following the release of her third studio album ''
Try This
''Try This'' is the third studio album by American singer Pink, released on November 11, 2003, by Arista Records. Wanting to expand more on the rock sound, which she explored on her previous record, '' Missundaztood'', for ''Try This'' Pink colla ...
'' (2003), which underperformed commercially and would later become her lowest-selling record, Pink parted ways with
Arista Records
Arista Records ( ) is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously a division of Bertelsmann Music G ...
, the label who released ''Try This'' and her second studio album ''
Missundaztood
''Missundaztood'' (stylized as ''M!ssundaztood'') is the second studio album by American singer Pink. It was released on November 20, 2001, by Arista Records. After the success of her debut album '' Can't Take Me Home'' (2000), Pink became dis ...
'' (2001). In 2006, she stated that she was unhappy with the way the label wanted her to produce music after the success of ''Missundaztood'', saying: "I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one. I was going: 'You want a record? Fine, I'll write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin' record and you can press it up and put it out.'" She described the promotional campaign for ''Try This'' as "an awful time", stating she walked out of several interviews crying and she felt they were "putting a quarter in the slot to watch the monkey dance."
[Boyd, Brian]
"Pink Panther"
''The Irish Times
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''. November 2006. Pink described the decision to name her fourth studio album ''I'm Not Dead'' in several interviews, telling
CBS News
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that "it's about being alive and feisty and not sitting down and shutting up even though people would like you to." In other interviews, she stated that the title came from an "awakening", telling ''
The Independent
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'' that she was influenced by her father having a
heart attack
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and turning 25, saying she "started caring less about
erdrama and more about the world around
er"
Pink also described the album's title as being inspired by an
epiphany
Epiphany may refer to:
Psychology
* Epiphany (feeling), an experience of sudden and striking insight
Religion
* Epiphany (holiday), a Christian holiday celebrating the revelation of God the Son as a human being in Jesus Christ
** Epiphany seaso ...
where she "just kind of woke up and realized" she had a lot to learn about adult responsibilities and the realities of everyday life.
[Kalow, Natalie]
"P!nk 'I'm not dead' Interview"
. GenerationQ. Retrieved May 31, 2007. Whereas she described the recording process for ''Try This'' as draining, she stated that she was "forced to be almost emotionally involved" by her collaborators on ''I'm Not Dead'', saying: "I guess I was just kind of at that place where I felt like I kind of had something to add to the world. I feel like there's a hole and I know how to fill it, people aren't talking trash anymore. I was just feeling really creative and really emotionally available again, and it came out great."
According to Pink, she wrote more than forty songs for the album on "everything
hecould possibly think of."
[
]
Musical styles and themes
Primarily a pop
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Arts, entertainment, and media
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Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop! (British group), a UK pop group
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album, ''I'm Not Dead'' also includes acoustic, folk rock
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, hard rock
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, power pop
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, pop rock
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, folk pop
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Musica ...
, new wave, dance
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and hip hop
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elements.
Pink was inspired to write opening track "Stupid Girls
"Stupid Girls" is a song recorded by American singer Pink (singer), Pink from her fourth studio album ''I'm Not Dead'' (2006). It was released in February 2006 as the first single from her third studio album on LaFace Records. The song marked Pi ...
", in which she deplores the lack of good role models for young girls while encouraging them to cultivate independence, after she noticed many such girls aspire to be like female pop icons, particularly those near her Los Angeles
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home. "There's a certain thing the world is being fed, and my point is there should be a choice", Pink said.[Vineyard, Jennifer]
"Pink's 'Stupid' New Video Features Fake Breasts, Fake 50 Cent"
MTV News
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. January 18, 2006. Retrieved October 22, 2006. She stated that " Who Knew" is about "the death of friendship",[Vineyard, Jennifer]
"Pink: Not Dead, Not Stupid"
. MTV News. February 17, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2006. as well as friends of hers who died as a result of drug overdose
A drug overdose (overdose or OD) is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities much greater than are recommended. Retrieved on September 20, 2014. s. The song is about several people.[Vineyard, Jennifer]
"Pink Pens An Open Letter To President Bush On New Album"
MTV News. January 3, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2007. The third song, "Long Way to Happy", is based on a poem about sexual abuse
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Pink wrote when she was thirteen years old. "I know a lot of people that have been abused and/or molested and/or fucked over by someone close to them. And I'm no exception. And that's that song", she said.[ The ]ballad
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" Nobody Knows" describes feelings that one can have but not show to the outside world, and Pink has named it the most vulnerable track on the album. " Dear Mr. President" is an open letter
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Open letters usually take the form of a letter (mess ...
to then president of the United States, George W. Bush
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;[ the song's format is a series of ]rhetorical question
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A simple example ...
s for the President, specifically pertaining to how he really feels about issues such as war, homosexuality, homelessness and drug abuse.
According to Pink, the sixth and title track, "I'm Not Dead", is her first "subtle" and "poetic" self-written song: "Usually it's very much more cartoon-y and blunt, the way I write songs. I don't really know diplomacy or subtlety."[ The song was inspired by how Pink and producer Billy Mann felt about the end of their working relationship: "We were scared to move on from each other, after seeing how much that little bit of time together changed us, and how scary change is."][ In "'Cuz I Can", Pink says she plays by her own rules boasts about her " bling", a contrast to the anti-]consumerist
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content of "Stupid Girls". Referring to the song, she called herself "a walking contradiction" and "a hypocrite sometimes."["How Pink Got Her Groove Back"]
. MTV News. April 17, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2007. This theme is echoed in " Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)", which deals with contradictory feelings about a relationship; Pink said "That's how I live my life. I'm a walking conflict."[ She called the song "a funny take on 'I love you' ... I get really cramped ... But, every girl needs her space".] "U + Ur Hand
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", the ninth track, is a kiss-off song addressed to a man who is trying to seduce Pink; it became a fan favorite before the release of the album, when it was leaked to the internet.[ Pink said of song such as "Runaway" that "It's been especially hard for y parentshearing me write about things they never knew about ... My mom's like, 'Were you really that angry? Was I really that in denial? Was I really that bad a parent?' 'No, Mom - you were great. You didn't try to run me over with your car. I made it up.' But by writing all of it down and sharing it with the world, I've broken with most of it." "The One That Got Away" is, as Pink puts it, "the classic 'Is this the one? Or is the grass really greener?'"][Vineyard, Jennifer]
"Pink: Not Dead, Not Stupid"
. MTV News. February 20, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2007. Pink described track thirteen, "Conversations with My 13 Year Old Self", as a "huge therapy session"[ that addresses her "pissed-off, complicated" younger self.][ She said of writing the song, "I needed a hug, and I get it ... now. If I tried to hug my 13-year-old self, she'd try to kick my ass, and then she'd collapse and cry."][ "Fingers" is about her videotaping herself ]masturbating
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.[ She said she probably didn't need to add to the number of songs about masturbation, but she couldn't help herself. The final song on the album, the ]hidden track
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"I Have Seen the Rain," was written by and features Pink's father, James T. Moore. He wrote it when he was a soldier in the Vietnam War
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, but according to Pink "it's still relevant today. It's a soldier's cry." She had always wanted to record it with him and learnt to harmonize
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with it. She said of its recording, "He was so nervous, it was the most adorable experience for a father and daughter to share."[
]
Promotion
Singles
Before "Stupid Girls
"Stupid Girls" is a song recorded by American singer Pink (singer), Pink from her fourth studio album ''I'm Not Dead'' (2006). It was released in February 2006 as the first single from her third studio album on LaFace Records. The song marked Pi ...
" was chosen as the album's lead single, videos were shot for it and "U + Ur Hand
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", which became the third single.
Released in February – March 2006, "Stupid Girls" reached number 13 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100—becoming Pink's biggest hit since 2002—and the top five in the UK and Australia. It was the subject of considerable discussion, with Pink attending ''The Oprah Winfrey Show
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'' to discuss what she called the "stupid girl epidemic"; in the song, she deplores the lack of good role models for girls while encouraging them to cultivate independence. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award
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for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
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(see Grammy Awards of 2007
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). Its music video
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, directed by Dave Meyers David Meyers may refer to:
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*Dave Meyers (basketball)
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, received an MTV Video Music Award
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for Best Pop Video.
" Who Knew" was released as the second single in May 2006 and initially failed to chart on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100, but it later debuted on the chart in March 2007 after it was used in promotion for the ABC television show '' October Road''. It was re-released in the U.S. in June 2007, and had peaked at number nine by mid September. It reached the top ten in other countries, including Australia and the UK.
The third single, "U + Ur Hand
U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''u'' (pronounced ) ...
", initially took three months to chart on the Hot 100, but it went on to peak at number nine in April 2007. It reached the top 20 across most of Europe and Australia through August – September 2006.
The fourth single, " Nobody Knows", was released outside the U.S. in November and reached the top 40 in the UK and Australia.
The song " Dear Mr. President" attracted publicity, and there was belief among fans that it would be released as a single, but Pink said she would not release "Dear Mr. President" as a single because she did not want people to think it was a publicity stunt. In Belgium, an acoustic version of the song was released as a download single in late 2006, and it reached number one on the Ultratop
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chart. In the UK, "Dear Mr. President" was released as a download-only single with " Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)". It reached the UK top 40, also charting in the top five in Australia, where it became the fifth top five hit from ''I'm Not Dead''.
I'm Not Dead Tour
Pink began her North American I'm Not Dead Tour
The I'm Not Dead Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter Pink (singer), Pink. Launched in support of her fourth studio album, ''I'm Not Dead'' (2006) the tour reached Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia.
Bac ...
on June 24, 2006, in Chicago
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and it ended in Dallas
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after twenty shows. She started her European tour on September 8 of the same year in Istanbul
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; it ran for 52 shows and was scheduled to end in Milan
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on December 21. A DVD of a concert on this leg of the tour, '' Pink: Live from Wembley Arena'', was released in April 2007. In 2007, Pink returned to the U.S. to accompany Justin Timberlake
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on his FutureSex/LoveShow tour. She began her sold-out Australian tour in April 2007. The Australian leg of the tour was set at a record-breaking 35 arena shows, selling around 307,000 tickets — it became the most successful arena tour in Australian history by a female artist in Australia.[ ]Sony BMG
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Australia released a special tour edition of ''I'm Not Dead'' on March 17, 2007—it contains the original album including two bonus tracks and a DVD that features live performances and music videos. That December, the Special Edition was released in the U.S. under the title ''Platinum Edition''. It featured additional DVD content not featured on the Australian version.
Critical reception
''I'm Not Dead'' had a highly positive critical reception, receiving a 70 out of 100 score on Metacritic
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. In his review for AllMusic
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, Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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commented that P!nk "sounds liberated, making music that's far riskier and stranger than anything else in mainstream pop in 2006". ''Rolling Stone
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The magazine was first known fo ...
''s review was also complimentary, stating that the album "swaggers with a cockiness that most dudes in bands can't match. Whether she sings rock, pop, R&B or her usual combination of all three, the twenty-six-year-old Doylestown, Pennsylvania, native is belting more urgently and taking more risks than her pop-radio contemporaries."
Pink received the 2006 ''Glamour Magazine'' award for International Solo Artist of the Year, and in 2007, she won the MTV Australia Video Music Award for Best Female Artist and the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award (in Australia) for Favourite International. The same year, the album won in the Best International Album category at the Rockbjörnen Awards.
Commercial performance
The album sold 126,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. and debuted at number six, a higher debut position than those of Pink's last two albums, ''Missundaztood
''Missundaztood'' (stylized as ''M!ssundaztood'') is the second studio album by American singer Pink. It was released on November 20, 2001, by Arista Records. After the success of her debut album '' Can't Take Me Home'' (2000), Pink became dis ...
'' (2001) and ''Try This
''Try This'' is the third studio album by American singer Pink, released on November 11, 2003, by Arista Records. Wanting to expand more on the rock sound, which she explored on her previous record, '' Missundaztood'', for ''Try This'' Pink colla ...
'' (2003); however, first-week sales for ''I'm Not Dead'' were lower. ''I'm Not Dead'' spent a total of 88 non-consecutive weeks on the chart, its last being in December 2009. ''I'm Not Dead'' debuted at number three in the United Kingdom selling 39,892 copies and was the ninth best-selling album of 2006 in the UK, with over 848,000 copies sold in the year. In October 2007, it re-entered the UK top 100 album chart at 99.
In Australia, after 26 weeks of release, ''I'm Not Dead'' ascended to number one to become Pink's first number-one album;[Australian-charts.com - P!nk - I'm Not Dead](_blank)
. australian-charts.com. May 10, 2008. it returned to number one in its 61st week on the Australian ARIA
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chart.["P!nk At #1 With Album, Aussie Airplay + Single"]
. Sony BMG
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann. The venture's successor, the revived Sony Music, is wholly owned by Sony, following their buyout o ...
Australia. June 4, 2007. The album spent a record 62 consecutive weeks in the top ten. It was the second best selling album of both 2006 and 2007, and the number-one selling album by an American or a female artist in each year. It also became one of two Pink albums on the ARIA Chart's top 100 selling albums of the 2000 to 2009 decade, positioned at number 3 behind her 11× Platinum album Funhouse. In Canada, the album debuted at number two with 13,000 copies sold in its first week, and the CRIA certified it platinum for shipments of more than 100,000 copies. In Germany, it became Pink's first number-one album.
Track listing
Notes
* signifies a co-producer.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''I'm Not Dead''.
* Pink – producer, vocals, backing vocals, keyboard, piano
* Adem Hawkins – song mixing
* Al Clay – song mixing
* Amy Ray
Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls with Emily Saliers. She also pursues a solo career, releasing ten albums under her own name, and founded the independent ...
– backing vocals
* Andy Timmons – guitars
* Beth Cohen – backing vocals
* Billy Mann – backing vocals, guitars, piano, orchestra arranged, drums
* Butch Walker
Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker (born November 14, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was lead guitarist for the glam metal band, SouthGang from the late 1980s to early 1990s. From 1997 to 2001, he became th ...
– backing vocals, additional programming, guitars, bass guitar
* Christopher Rojas
Christopher Rojas (born 1982) is a multi-platinum NR Islamic Studio, composer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is also the co-founder of DigiTour Media.
Career
In the year 2003 Rojas signed with publisher Zomba Enterprises and BMG. ...
– mixing, keyboard programming, violins, drum programming, guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals
* Dan Chase – keyboard programming, drum programming
* Dan Warner – electric guitars
* Emily Saliers
Emily Ann Saliers (born July 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the musical duo Indigo Girls. Saliers sings soprano and plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments.
Ea ...
– backing vocals, guitars
* Fermio Hernandez – assistant mix engineer
* Geoff Zanelli – guitars, bass guitar, synthesizer
* Jeff Phillips – guitars
* Joey Waronker
Jon Joseph Waronker (born May 20, 1969) is an American drummer and music producer. He has performed with acts including Beck, R.E.M., Oasis and Roger Waters, and is a member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta.
Back ...
– drums
* John Hanes – additional Pro Tools
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engineer
* Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Justin Meldal-Johnsen (born March 26, 1970) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter and musical director. He is best known for his work with artists such as Beck, Nine Inch Nails, M83, Air, St. Vincent, Wolf Alice, and Deafheave ...
– bass guitar
* Lasse Mårtén – drums
* Lee Levin – drums
* Leon Pendarvis
Leroy Leon Pendarvis (born 1945) is an American session musician. He plays keyboards and is a background vocalist. He is also an occasional guitarist.
Early life
The son of a first-grade primary school teacher, Pendarvis grew up in South Carolin ...
– orchestra arrangements, conductor
* Lukasz Gottwald – guitar programming, drum programming
* Max Martin – keyboard programming, guitar programming, drum programming
* Mike Elizondo – additional programming, keyboard programming, keyboard, guitars
* Niklas Olovson – drum programming, bass guitar
* Molecules – guest MC
* Mylious Johnson – drums
* Pete Wallace – keyboard programming, drum programming, guitars, piano, percussion
* Rafael Moreira – guitars
* Robin Lynch – guitars
* Roc Raida – DJ
* Serban Ghenea – song mixing
* Shawn Pelton – drums
* Steven Wolf
Steven Wolf (aka Wolf) is an American drummer, programmer, songwriter and music producer. His discography several numerous gold, platinum, and Grammy winning records. He has worked with a range of artists including Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, B ...
– additional programming, tambourine
* Tim Roberts – assistant mix engineer
* Tom Lord-Alge
Tom Lord-Alge (born January 17, 1962) is an American music engineer and mixer. He began his career at Unique Recording in New York. Subsequently, he was the resident mixer at what used to be known as "South Beach Studios", located on the ground ...
– song mixing
* Tom Talomaa – assistant mix engineer
* Tom Coyne – mastering
* Thom Cadley – 5.1 mixing
* Mark Rinaldi – assistant 5.1 mixing
* Mark Wilder – 5.1 mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
''The Remixes''
''The Remixes'' is the first extended play
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and the first remix album
A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson ('' Aerial Pandemonium Ballet'', 1971). As of 200 ...
by Pink. It was released on February 20, 2007 for digital download only and contains the remixes of each of the first three singles from ''I'm Not Dead''.
Tracklisting
See also
*List of best-selling albums in Australia
This is a list of best-selling albums in Australia that have been certified by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Since the 1970s, ARIA certified an album platinum for a shipment of 50,000 copies across Australia. In 1983, the ...
References
External links
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2006 albums
Pink (singer) albums
LaFace Records albums
Sony BMG albums
Zomba Group of Companies albums
Indigo Girls
Albums produced by Billy Mann
Albums produced by Butch Walker
Albums produced by Dr. Luke
Albums produced by Josh Abraham
Albums produced by Max Martin
Albums produced by Mike Elizondo