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Beautiful Trauma (2017)

Where the lyrics of Beautiful Trauma take you, and where it was really made.

Fifty songs were written for this album, which took three years to develop, the longest Pink had ever spent on one record.

Key places

Earthstar Creation Center in Venice (2017)

Recording site Earthstar Creation Center — Pink and Tobias Jesso Jr. wrote and produced You Get My Love at the Earthstar Creation Center in Venice. Discogs also lists this center as a recording location for the album. The point uses building-level coordinates. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Studio Willow-Valley (2017)

Recording site Studio Willow-Valley — Discogs lists Studio Willow-Valley as a recording location for this album. The point is placed at city-center coordinates, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• Beautiful Trauma: seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink
• Released October 13, 2017, by RCA Records
• Primarily a pop record that incorporates EDM and folk influences
• Lyrics center on love, heartbreak, and the duality of life
• Also addresses societal and global issues
• Pink and her manager Roger Davies served as executive producers

Background

• Follows The Truth About Love, released September 2012, which sold about 7,000,000 copies worldwide
• Pink took a career hiatus to focus on her personal life and become reinspired
• Development spanned three years starting in 2015, the longest Pink has worked on an album
• Pink gave birth to a son on December 26, 2016, which pushed the album's creation and release back to 2017
• Writing drew on a miscarriage, the 2016 US presidential election, and her father's cancer diagnosis

Recording

• Collaborators included Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, Jack Antonoff, and Shellback
• Recorded at Earthstar Creation Center; "You Get My Love" was written and produced there with Tobias Jesso Jr.
• 50 songs were composed during the album's development
• "I Am Here" was recorded in Philadelphia at Houser Audio with a 30-piece choir
• Discogs credits also list Studio Willow-Valley as a recording location and MixStar Studios as a mixing location

Cover

• Shot by Kurt Iswarienko
• Pink stands in front of a rundown gas station in a desert
• Pink said the title refers to atrocities around the world and her willingness to see the world's good side

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Alecia Beth Moore-Hart (born September 8, 1979), known as Pink, is an American singer and songwriter from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
• At 15, she formed the R&B group Choice with two other teenage girls; the group signed with LaFace Records but disbanded in 1998.
• Pink then began her solo career with LaFace Records.

Career

• Debut album Can't Take Me Home (2000) reached No. 26 on the Billboard 200 and sold over four million copies worldwide.
• Missundaztood (2001) became her best-selling record with more than 13 million copies, and its single "Get the Party Started" was a worldwide hit.
• "Lady Marmalade" (with Christina Aguilera, Mýa and Lil' Kim) gave her first US No. 1 single and her first Grammy.
• Later albums include Try This (2003), I'm Not Dead (2006), Funhouse (2008), The Truth About Love (2012), Beautiful Trauma (2017), Hurts 2B Human (2019) and Trustfall (2023).
• The Truth About Love and Beautiful Trauma topped the Billboard 200; "Raise Your Glass" and "Just Give Me a Reason" were number-one Billboard Hot 100 hits.
• Pink has sold more than 135 million records worldwide and has won three Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards and seven MTV Video Music Awards.
• Her Summer Carnival tour became the second-highest grossing concert tour by a woman.

Members

• Pink performs as a solo artist; the group Choice and Basic Instinct were earlier groups she was part of.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Mixed reviews from music critics; many praised the overall production and Pink's vocals
• Some critics found it too calculated and formulaic, questioning its originality
• Josh Hurst of Slant Magazine called it a pop album about bent-and-broken people
• Patrick Ryan of USA Today praised the stripped-back arrangements for emphasizing Pink's abilities as a singer-songwriter
• Andy Gill of The Independent said the producers' choice left little room for originality
• Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said the album sounds too controlled
• Michael Cragg of The Guardian concluded it does the job, nothing more

Reappraisal

• Metacritic average of 62 out of 100 from 9 reviews
• AnyDecentMusic? gave it 5.7 out of 10 based on critical consensus
• People placed it eighth on its Top-Ten Albums of 2017 list
• Rolling Stone placed it at number 20 in its year-end list of the best 20 pop albums of 2017
• Billboard listed it as the 13th best album of 2017

Records

• Debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 408,000 units, 384,000 of them pure sales
• Highest first-week sales of Pink's career up to that point
• RIAA platinum certification for 1,000,000 units
• UK Albums Chart debut at number one with 70,074 units; BPI platinum for over 300,000 units, 516,087 sold by February 2019
• ARIA quadruple platinum for over 280,000 units
• IFPI: third best-selling album of 2017, eighth in 2018, over 3,000,000 copies worldwide
• Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Grammy Awards

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Eminem responded positively to Pink's collaboration request while in Rio de Janeiro, then sent his recorded verse by e-mail four days later.
• Revenge had been planned as the second single but was cancelled in favor of the title track.
• The video for Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken was shot in black-and-white and released during the days of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

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