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Pink colours us impressed with new album Beautiful Trauma

A show-them-how-it's-done collection of reality checks, relationship ructions and life as seen through a rear-view
A show-them-how-it's-done collection of reality checks, relationship ructions and life as seen through a rear-view
Reviewer score
Label RCA
Year 2017

It's a nice problem to have when the weakest track on your record ends up being the one with the special guest star. 

Turns out Pink didn't need Eminem or their daggers-drawn duet Revenge on Beautiful Trauma, a show-them-how-it's-done collection of reality checks, relationship ructions and life as seen through a rear-view. 

Twenty years in, her voice still has the power to surprise - here she sounds like the real deal in terms of range and drama, with no amount of studio slickness able to smother a singer with the bit between her teeth. 

It helps, mind, that half the songs - Whatever You Want, What About Us, Barbies, Secrets, I Am Here, You Get My Love - are of the Greatest Hits gold standard.

Now, with chart smarts re-affirmed, it's time for Pink to really roll the dice. As the sublime closer You Get My Love shows, an album of wee small hours adventures and bare bones ballads could be a classic.

Tracklist

# Track Title
  1. Beautiful Trauma
  2. Revenge
  3. Whatever You Want
  4. What About Us
  5. But We Lost It
  6. Barbies
  7. Where We Go
  8. For Now
  9. Secrets
  10. Better Life
  11. I Am Here
  12. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
  13. You Get My Love