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Can't Take Me Home (2000)

Where the lyrics of Can't Take Me Home take you, and where it was really made.

Pink's debut was certified double Platinum in the United States, yet she later said she had no say in how it was made.

Key places

Recording sessions in New York City (2000)

Recording site Record Plant Studios — Recording sessions for the album took place at Unique Recording Studios in New York City. The pin is set at city-center level, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recording location listed for the album (2000)

Recording site Brandon's Way — Brandon’s Way Recording is listed as a recording location for the album. The pin shows the studio's coordinates, and the exact date of recording is not given. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Can't Take Me Home: debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Pink
• Released April 4, 2000 through LaFace Records
• Released two years after the disbanding of her girl group Choice
• A dance-pop and R&B record
• Thirteen tracks; Pink co-wrote seven of them
• Most tracks deal with relationships and love
• L.A. Reid served as executive producer

Background

• In 1995 Pink and two other teenage girls, Sharon Flanagan and Chrissy Conway, formed the R&B group Choice
• The group was signed by LaFace Records in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to the label's headquarters there
• Choice disbanded in 1998
• Reid gave Pink an ultimatum to go solo
• After Choice disbanded, Pink signed with LaFace Records and began her first solo album
• Producers included Babyface, Kandi Burruss and Tricky Stewart

Recording

• Recording sessions took place at Unique Recording Studios in New York City
• Producers: Kevin She'kspere Briggs, Babyface, Kandi Burruss, Terence Tramp Baby Abney, Daryl Simmons and Tricky
• The album was compared with TLC's 1999 record FanMail, which shared the same producers and executive producer

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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

• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine found the album close to TLC's work but praised Pink's vocal performance
• Robert Christgau gave the album a B+
• NME gave the album six out of ten and criticised a sameness that comes from the diva style of modern R&B acts
• Q gave the album four out of five stars
• Entertainment Weekly gave the album a mixed review, grading it C+, and questioned its originality
• MTV Asia gave the album five out of ten, calling the music typical R&B of the period
• Rolling Stone gave the album two and a half out of five stars, praising one single and calling the rest borrowed from R&B hits of the previous eighteen months

Reappraisal

• Pink later said she was dissatisfied with the album's musical direction, her image during promotion and her lack of creative control
• For her second album, Missundaztood, she pushed for more creative control and recruited Linda Perry
• Reid was initially unhappy with the new direction; after a dispute he gave Pink the chance to fail
• Lauren Michele Jackson compared Pink's break from R&B with Janet Jackson's Control in her 2019 book White Negroes
• Arielle Gordon of Stereogum praised Pink's resistance to label pressure to stay an R&B singer in a 2021 retrospective

Records

• In the United States the album debuted at number 26 on the Billboard 200
• It peaked at number ten in Australia, number 13 in the United Kingdom and number 19 in Canada
• It was certified double Platinum by RIAA in the United States for two million shipments
• It was certified double Platinum in Canada and Australia, and Platinum in the United Kingdom and New Zealand
• The singles There You Go and Most Girls reached numbers 7 and 4 in the United States
• The album won Pink the New Female Artist of the Year award at the 2000 Billboard Music Awards

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Pink co-wrote seven of the thirteen tracks, and the album was partly written during her time in the Bronx
• Split Personality was not released as a single but was featured in the 2001 film The Princess Diaries
• Most Girls was also her first single to top the Rhythmic radio chart
• Pink did not perform the album's songs from 2001 until her 2013 The Truth About Love Tour, due to her opinion of the album
• Pink later said that Split Personality was written on a beach in Miami when she was young

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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