This song is like quintessential P!nk to me, especially when it comes to lyrics, and the production is something that fits her amazingly and that is not bound to any record label's doing. It's basically what i feel when she says "music is freedom". Her voice is phenomenal. This was the direction I thought she would take after Try This because it only made sense and felt the most natural. It felt like she was leading up to this moment... But commercial failure happened so she had to stick to the safe route and had to more or less copy Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne's sound for I'm Not Dead at the time. Bummer.
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Originally posted by Lucas32
Her attempt at a classic rock ballad is surprisingly great.
#2 - Waiting For Love
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Originally posted by Can't_M!ss_This
Best song to play loud.
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Originally posted by Tom Vercetti
Epic song to be honest. The perfect P!nk song.
#1 - I'm Not Dead
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Originally posted by Grenn-O
This song deserved to be longer than it was... The melody was nice, I have no clue why she doesn't delve deeper into great melodies these days.
Literally any other song in the top 20 could win and it'd be better than this. It's legit the first time I've been genuinely disappointed with a rate results
Lemme spend a couple words on Free. I usually hate long ass songs, they tend to be filled with unnecessary repetitive parts. But this almost 7 minute long track is so beautiful and emotional and it totally deserved top 3
For the record, during the first half of the voting, Free had set up a pretty strong lead for itself and was looking untouchable, then towards the middle of the voting period, Waiting For Love caught up to it and they both kept switching as the #1 until the last few ballots, where most of Free and WFL's middling scores came from, with I'm Not Dead being the dark horse that eventually took the lead.