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The lead single from Pink's Beautiful Trauma album, "What About Us" finds her addressing the politicians and decision makers, as she asks the poignant question, "What about us?"
What about all the times you said you had the answers?
What about us?
What about all the broken happy ever afters?
What about us?
Pink bemoans the way those in authority have let down the common people.
Pink has done political songs before, notably "Dear Mr. President" in 2006. In that one, she made it clear who she was addressing, but "What About Us" doesn't mention anyone by name, although most listeners assume it's directed at Donald Trump. "I'm very political - I'm from a military family," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I believe in equality and inclusiveness and diversity and kindness and just generally not being a total douchebag."
Pink co-wrote the song with Snow Patrol guitarist Johnny McDaid and the track's producer, Steve Mac. McDaid and Mac also collaborated with Ed Sheeran on his smash hit single "Shape Of You."
Steve Mac's production employs a repetitive technique, which ties in with Pink's repeated questioning of "what about us?" Johnny McDaid explained to Billboard:
"Steve really fought for the chord changes in the song to be almost like a mantra, you know, that they musically just repeat and repeat and repeat to give Alecia the stage to weave the melody into a place where it would soar into this incredible, epic celebration and the unity that comes from it.
It's a fun thing to get challenged by the limitation like that, actually - those limitations end up increasing the heat and the fire of the song. And Alecia was not just not resistant to it, she was really excited by that: The repetition in the song, the idea that it would become almost like a heartbeat as it just got inside you and became integral when you listened to it. You didn't have to think. That was very important. And I love the question in the song; the fact that the song is a question, it's not an instruction. I think more questions, less answers, because all of us are looking for answers and we think that that's the end of everything and it's not. The questions are where the heat and energy is. We need to question more and I love that the song's premise is a question."
Pink told The Sun that she feels great about this song. She explained: "The world in general is a really scary place full of beautiful people. Humans are resilient and there's a lot of wonderful – like I said in the song – 'billions of beautiful hearts' and there are bad eggs in every group. And they make it really hard for the rest of us."
The song succeeded in getting onto the radio playlists contrary to what Pink's record label executives predicted. "When I came back, the record company sat me down and told me that once you are over 35 and a female popstar, radio probably won't play you. I'm so glad I proved them wrong. It's nice," the singer said on The Graham Norton Show.Resposta:
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