Review: Pink

Review: Pink

Pink "I'm Not Dead": Aidin Vaziri | The title, "I'm Not Dead," isn't so much a joke as a public service announcement. Pink's previous album tanked so hard that even recalling its title takes more thought than it got while it was out. The good news is she's over the angry punk thing and has returned to the angry confessional rock thing that fueled her breakthrough CD, "M!ssundaztood." So much so that she has seemingly re-created it note for note with a) the fun pop song that makes fun of Britney Spears ("Stupid Girls"), only to lure you into listening to b) the streaky mascara songs about escaping her dysfunctional family ("Runaway," "I Got Money Now"), which leads to c) the duet with the Indigo Girls in which she imagines being on a walk with George W. Bush and singing, "You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine!" ("Dear Mr. President"). Didn't she do that last time? It's good to have her back anyway.