P!nk shares the wine-fuelled love-soaked email to Eminem to get him on her Beautiful Trauma album
ALBUM REVIEW: Pink has set her sights on winning a rap Grammy, with a little help from Eminem. This is how she finally brought rap’s bad boy into the studio.
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P!NK begged rapper Eminem not to laugh at her for writing her first rap song.
Ironically, their duet Revenge features the controversial hip hop star singing almost as much as he is rapping.
Slated to be the next single from her Beautiful Trauma album, released on October 13, Revenge is her hilarious attempt to add a rap Grammy to her collection of pop and rock trophies.
It took a few glasses of wine to summon the courage to ask Eminem to join her on the track.
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“Isn’t it fun? I went to the studio that day and Max Martin and Johan Shellback and I were drinking so much wine and I was like ‘I wanna rap Grammy,’” she said before erupting in a loud cackle.
“I have rock, pop, jazz — yeah, jazz with Herbie Hancock — and now I need a rap and R&B Grammy.”
After writing the song, she wrote a long, rambling love letter of an email to the rapper.
“I emailed him and I was like ‘I love you, I’ve always loved you,’” she wrote.
“I told him ‘I asked for your autograph in 2001 at the MTV Music Video Awards — you
remember that? And you gave it to me. And you’re just so great.
“’And you always work with the same people and I love that about you. And I love that you always work with Rihanna and she’s way hotter than me.
“I wrote my first rap song, please don’t laugh at me, would you be on it with me?’”
Eminem’s reply was far more succinct.
“That was it, one word, ‘OK,’” Pink revealed.
“And then four days later, he sent it to me from Rio de Janeiro. And oh my god, I loved it.”
P!nk sent another gushing, effusive email. And got the same reply.
“I’m like “I love it. It’s so good, you’re funny again! And I’m going to tackle you and rub your face in the dirt and kiss you on the cheek. And he just wrote back, ‘OK.’
Her seventh record has already won favour with fans who sent its lead single What About Us to the top of the Australian charts and eventually claimed the Global iTunes No.1.
That epic pop anthem with its political rallying cry announced P!nk was pushing her sound out into deeper waters.
Beautiful Trauma is a dizzying ride through riotous, scream-along pop, soaring, emotive ballads and R&B-fuelled dancefloor fillers just waiting for a thumping remix.
She mentioned the first year of writing for the album produced “slow sad songs” which sounded like they were made for an Adele album. But Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken and We Lost It may have been among those songs. The latter also sounds like it could have easily made the cut on Lady Gaga’s Joanna album.
The track Secrets definitely sparks comparison with Gaga’s past and would lend itself for a high-flying interpretation on the concert stage.
The acoustic folk of Barbies and its swelling strings could also have ended up on her You+Me album which she released with her friend Dallas Green of City and Colour in 2014.
Elsewhere, she applies her considerable talents to the Celtic folk-flecked EDM which sent Avicii soaring up the charts. Where You Go and the gospel choir-assisted I Am Here are her Wake Me Up.
Lorde and Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff, formerly of chart-topping band fun., adds his idiosyncratic percussive piano sensibilities on the title track and the soulful, organ groove of Better Life.
She gets her rock side off on For Now, its guitar hook sure to recall Total Control, the 1979 hit from new wave rockers The Motels.
While What About Us and Wild Hearts express her feelings on the state of America, it is a surprise to hear so much heartbreak on the album.
P!nk and husband Carey Hart have famously broken up and reconciled twice over the 16 years of their relationship and revealed the hard work they put into maintaining their marriage.
With 13 tracks, P!nk faces some tough choices on which tracks to include in her Beautiful Trauma world tour which will hit Australia in July.
Tickets for her Beautiful Trauma tour of Australia go on sale on October 20, with a Telstra pre-sale from October 16.
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