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Funhouse
by Pink
The fifth album for the pop artist features tracks produced by Max Martin and Butch Walker.
| LABEL: |
LaFace |
| RELEASE DATE: |
28 October 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Dance, Pop |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
The sadder Pink gets, the better the big, rocky roar that characterizes much of the disc sounds.
80
Boston Globe
Pink continues to make everything she touches her own. She uses brains and brawn to turn the mainstream into a complicated place.
80
Spin
Whether struggling with sobriety or confronting her own meanness, Pink has never been less cool: She's hot-blooded throughout, and it suits both her pipes and a female pop genre that rarely embraces this much tangible pain.
80
Village Voice
Ms. Alecia Moore turns tragedy into a huge artistic coup once again on the only somewhat inaccurately named Funhouse.
80
Billboard
On her confident fifth album, the multiplatinum hitmaker attacks her recent divorce in all styles.
75
The Phoenix
Give Pink three spins and half a chance and by track five's killer New Order riff, you'll be singing 'Please, Don't Leave Me' back at her.
70
Dot Music
Perhaps Funhouse is a victim of its own excess: it may be inevitable that an album of 14 songs with more than a dozen credited writers will end up as hit and miss, as messy as this.
70
All Music Guide
Funhouse is a ride, empowered by her post-divorce freedom. In a way, that does make Funhouse unique among divorce albums, as it's the first to concentrate on liberation rather than loss--but if she was going to go in this direction, Pink may have been better off not pretending that she's bothered by the breakup.
70
Hartford Courant
Anything that reduces Pink's in-your-face presence, and that includes a preponderance of slowed-down, tarted-up examinations of divorce, is probably an ill-advised move.
70
Vibe
Funhouse is more haunting than amusing, but the solidarity that comes along with her recent divorce serves as the effort's muse and proves to be her best partner in life.
70
Slant Magazine
If the album doesn't always make that point in its words, it consistently makes that point by being as fun a pop record as Pink's albums tend to be.
60
Blender
The bigger the gamble, the stronger she feels. By the end of the record, she’s lassoing the moon, getting through her loneliness the way she got past teen pop: by sheer force of will.
60
Observer Music Monthly
Her new album lays into her ex-husband with devilish choruses and potent hooks.
60
Rolling Stone
Funhouse would be more fun if Pink went easier on the bad-love songs.
60
The Guardian
Frustratingly, the sound and the fury is followed by a string of damp ballads charting her split from her husband, but Funhouse is a solid album nevertheless.
60
NOW Magazine
The otherwise likeably raunchy and bratty Pink is now officially walking a fine line, leaning dangerously close to the humdrum.
60
PopMatters
In the end, Funhouse bites off more than it can chew, but it never chokes on its ambitions: it shows Pink as one who is unsure of her post-marital identity, hopping around from emotion to emotion without ever settling onto a state of stability until the album’s well-timed closing moments.
60
musicOMH.com
Angst is very well in small doses, but over an entire album it can start to grate.
50
The New York Times
Even though Pink oozes disappointment in herself and others, her music mostly fails to keep up.
50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Pink can reach unusually stirring heights when in the right register. That register, on Funhouse, is something close to despondence with a lot of tiredness thrown in--just enough to make Pink forego her instinct for winking and simply sound pained instead.
The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes
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