"So What" is a song written by American pop singer Pink, Max Martin and Shellback for her forthcoming fifth studio album called "Funhouse", of which it will be the first single.
"So What" explicitly deals with life after marriage as Pink makes several references to her divorce of Corey Hart after his rumored infidelity.
Dave Meyers has been tapped to direct the video for "So What". Pink previously worked with him for the videos to "U + Ur Hand" and "Stupid Girls", which earned MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video.
"So What" explicitly deals with life after marriage as Pink makes several references to her divorce of Corey Hart after his rumored infidelity.
Dave Meyers has been tapped to direct the video for "So What". Pink previously worked with him for the videos to "U + Ur Hand" and "Stupid Girls", which earned MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video.
If you're unaware of recent developments in Pink's personal life, her new single will bring you bang up to date. "I guess I just lost my husband, I don't know where he went," go the opening lines, "So I'm gonna drink my money, I'm not gonna pay his rent." That's right, 'So What' is a break-up song.
Specifically, it's a brash, childish, defiant and rather tongue-in-cheek break-up song. It's also a break-up song that lots of people will be singing along to, thanks to a typically stonking pop/rock chorus courtesy of Max Martin. But Pink's brilliance here shouldn't be underestimated. Who else would think to do something like this? Who else could pull it off? And who else could persuade the ex-hubby she calls a "tool" on the chorus to appear in the video?
Not so much a pop song as a blitzkrieg on the brain, "So What" is the catchiest, brashest, most boisterous thing either Pink or producer Max Martin have ever recorded. Some feat when you consider that they've written songs as insanely infectious as "Oops! I Did It Again", "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", "Since U Been Gone", "Get The Party Started" and "Just Like A Pill" between them.
Over a bubblegum riff that could have been swiped from cult kid's TV show "Rhoobarb and Custard", Pink snarls at ex-husband Corey Hart and swaggers around challenging bystanders to a fight, before detonating a trashy, thrashy thermonuclear of a chorus. And though part of you wishes she would set the bratty "f*ck you" attitude aside long enough to write another song as honest, vulnerable and heart-rending as "Don't Let Me Get Me", another part will thrill at the sheer dumb delirium of it. It's already Number One in the US, Australia and Canada, so if you don't like day-glo pop-punk you should probably find a bunker to hide in right now.
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