Funhouse sees Pink wearing her emotions on her sleeve as she brings us forty five minutes of joyous yet out-of-control relationship breakdown in her most personal and grown-up album to date.

The upbeat pop tracks and mid-tempo ballads are cleverly juxtaposed with Pink's heartfelt honesty about her life in this fifth studio album, which includes collaborations with Billy Mann who co-wrote Stupid Girls and I'm Not Dead.

Pink originally wanted to call the album Heartbreak is a Motherf***er, following her recent divorce from professional motorcross rider Carey Hart, but label LaFace Records declined from fear of lack of sales due to its offensive language. So Pink titled the album Funhouse "because that's what life and love is like", she said. "They're scary as s**t, you know what you're signing up for, sometimes you don't know what will happen, but you buy the ticket anyway".

Catchy funk opener So What, the biggest solo success of Pink's career so far topping the charts in eleven countries, is supercharged with aggression from her divorce. In So What, Pink is a rock star, she disses Hart calling him "a tool" and she's "gonna start a fight".

Aerosmith influenced track Mean, reflects the train wreck of her marriage in a rugged country rock harmony as does the electro title track Funhouse, backed by a heavy disco beat that breaks down into some blues riffs with boogie woogie piano. Filled with reflections of a broken marriage, Funhouse is the icing over a very dark cake.

It's All Your Fault is another track full of regret and rage. The cross rhythms and little piano riff help keep it a catchy, sing-a-long break up anthem for broken hearts everywhere.

In piano-led ballad Glitter In The Air, Pink poses a series of thought-provoking questions such as "Have you ever looked fear in the face and said I just don't care?" and "Have you ever hated yourself for staring at the phone?". She admits: "I still don't have some of the answers to the questions I pose on this record. I'm still figuring it all out".

But the track that Pink says she is most proud of is Crystal Ball, which reflects the mistakes she's made and the lessons she's learnt from the pain and she wouldn't change a thing: "I'm not scared at all of all the cracks in the crystal ball".

The energised Ave Mary A, with its distinctive heavy guitar grind, touches on serious world issues like suicide bombers as she sings of "the chaos around me, the devil that hounds me". An acid trip gone wrong forms the basis of One Foot Wrong, but there is also an underlying theme, about "losing control and how easy it is to lose the plot in life and teeter on the edge", as Pink explains.

Reaching number two on the UK charts, Sober, with its heavy guitars and booming snare, was written by Pink at a party hosted at her house where everyone was drinking except her and she wanted them to leave. But she says it is also about identity: "How do I feel this good with just me, without anyone to lean on?".

Although Funhouse has faced considerable criticism for having "too much bad-love" (Rolling Stone) and being "more haunting than amusing" (VIBE), Pink undoubtedly delivers a album that is different from her past work, displaying her wounds and vulnerability in a cocktail of animated pop-rock rhythms and heartfelt ballads. With four stars from US Magazine and four and a half from The Daily Telegraph, Pink shows us that this emotional rollercoaster can also be a fun ride.

Funhouse (LaFace Records) was released on October 28 worldwide.

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