Greg Kurstin has revealed that Pink's latest single 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' was nearly called 'Let's Throw In The Towel'.
The producer had been working with Pink on a nine-day intensive songwriting session that resulted in six songs.
He revealed that 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' was written and recorded in one day but originally had different lyrics as the chorus.
"She kept coming back to, 'Let's throw in the towel', and it was one of those things where we had to say, 'Is that line really the song?'" Kurstin told Billboard.
"So then I came back with 'Blow me... one last kiss' and we got really excited. Most of the time with Pink she's so strong writing lyrics, I don't really interfere. I let her do her thing. That could've been the only time I did that."
Quite interesting. I wonder how different the song would've been had it been titled Let's Throw In The Towel.
Hope they put the actual article on their web-site soon.
Some keypoints:
- New to this project are Greg Kurstin.. as well as songwriter Dan Wilson (Semisonic's "Closing Time", Adele's "Someone Like You") who helped pen the somber yet hopeful closer, "The Great Escape".
- Also working with P!nk for the first time are Jeff Bhasker (fun., Kanye West, Lana Del Ray) and DJ Khalil (Eminem's Recovery)
- The Album sports a few guest appearances, a rarity for P!nk. Lily Rose Cooper (aka Lily Allen) -whose last album was produced by Kurstin- turns up on the Kurstin helmed "True Love" and fun.'s Nate Ruess helps make the Bhasker-assisted "Just Give Me A Reason" an emotional duet. Even Eminem shows up for a couple of verses on "Here Comes The Weekened." Making good on a 2010 handshake deal in which P!nk sang the hook for rapper's "Won't Back Down" in exchange for an appearance on her next record.
-"Having worked with her on it she feels it's her best album. As an outsider, I feel it's her best album as a fan" says Peter Edge, an A&R veteran who was appointed CEO of RCA Music Group last summer. "She digs into a lot of different musical territory on this record without going way left. She's got, I think, three or four really big hits."
Indeed, the label is already betting that Kurstin-produced "Try" will have a strong showing as the proposed second single, while the Ruess duet "Just Give Me A Reason" is Edge's song of the year candidate for next year. "It's going to play at every format. It's going to be hopefully be used in a lot of TV," he says. "It's just one of those songs people will relate to on a relationship level."
You've gone out of your way to ignore most of your first album, Can't Take Me Home, on your greatest-hits set and recent tours- but it had three big singles. How do you see that record's role in where you are today?
It's a huge part of where I am now. It's funny- my best friend, he's always like, "When are you going to do "Hiccup"? Can we get some "Most Girls"? I try so hard to fit them into my shows and they just don't end up making any sense to me somehow. For this last tour I had this whole salsa number to "There You Go" and it was going to be so beautiful but it just didn't fit in.
So you've faced your fear of heights...
But I haven't yet faced my fear of my first record. [laughs]
