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Of course, anyone can be diverse in pop music these days. What really sets Love apart is that the entire thing has an impressive maturity to it, a sort of world-weariness that feels honest without being cynical or exhausting. Take album highlight “The Truth About Love,” an all-angles meditation on the obvious set to a grooving girl-group-style beat with handclaps and awesome backing vocals. The observations are funny and occasionally insightful, alternately defining the titular sensation as “wings and songs and trees and birds” and “sandwiches without the crust,” “regret in the morning, the smelling of armpits,” and they’re all delivered in a distorted, gravelly growl, like Pink was the long-retained house singer at some dingy blues club.
It’s one of the best songs of the year, and it wouldn’t be nearly as good as performed by any other contemporary pop star. That’s because the song speaks to an incredible amount of experience with the subject matter, one that we believe coming from Pink, not just because she’s proven herself such an invested and soulful performer, but because we’ve gotten to know both her and her personal story over the years—most specifically her on-again, off-again partnership with one-time husband and recent baby daddy Carey Hart, with whom she’s shared a touchingly honest warts-and-all public relationship, even in Pink’s own music videos.
When Pink preaches the Truth About Love, we listen, because we know she’s lived through the highs and lows, and lived to tell about it in an intelligent and self-aware manner. Much as we adore Taylor Swift’s high school breakup songs, “Truth About Love” is a song for a grown-ass woman, and neither she nor the majority of her Top 40 peers would be able to handle it. Only Pink carries all of the emotional gravity, the real-world credibility, the vocal flexibility and the pop chops to walk the tight rope between the song’s swinging giddiness and its bluesy down-to-earthness. Needless to say, it’s an achievement that should not be overlooked.
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Hear that Underflops? Best song of the year.  Eat it. 
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Best song on the standard 
