THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

296-Pink-Get the Party Started.

2001-Number 2 single.

Best Bit-At 0.10. At the age of 14, she chose the stage name ‘Pink,’ she had already had that as a nickname for quite sometime, calling herself after the character ‘Mr Pink’ in Quentin Tarantino’s film ‘Reservoir Dogs’ (see also best songs 524.)

‘Pink’ was born Alecia Beth Moore on September 8th, 1979, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States, with sales in excess of 100 million records, she is one of the best selling artists of all time. At the age of 16 she formed an R&B girl group called ‘Choice’ with two others. A copy of their debut single ‘Key to My Heart’ was sent to L.A.Reid of ‘LaFace Records’ who signed them in 1995, but by 1998 Reid gave Pink an ultimatum, go solo or go home.

‘Pink’s debut solo Album ‘Can’t Take Me Home’ from 2000 was recorded in the R&B genre, eventually selling over two million copies in America, and producing three top 40 singles on both sides of the Atlantic. In total Pink has released eight studio Albums between 2000-2019, and 53 singles. She has achieved 24 Billboard top 40 singles in America, with four of them reaching Number 1, while in the UK, 36 of her singles have made the top 40, with three getting to Number 1. Pink has also released an Album called ‘Rose Ave.’ in 2014 as part of a duo called ‘You+Me,’ with the Canadian Folk singer/songwriter Dallas Green, the Album reached Number 4 on Billboard, and Number 10 in the UK.

‘Get the Party Started’ was the first single released from Pink’s second studio Album ‘Missundaztood’ from 2001. Even so her R&B debut had been a great success, Pink was frustrated with the lack of creative control she had, and was dissatisfied with being marketed as a white R&B singer. Aspiring to pursue a more Rock orientated sound she approached one of her childhood idols Linda Perry. Perry not only wrote ‘Get the Party Started,’ but also wrote and produced eight tracks on the ‘Missundaztood’ Album.

Linda Perry was born on April 15th, 1965, in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, she first found success as the primary songwriter, and lead vocalist of the American Alternative Rock band ‘4 Non Blondes,’ who were active between 1989-1994, and are best remembered for the 1993 UK Number 2, and Billboard Number 14 hit single ‘What’s Up,’ written by Perry. ‘Get the Party Started’ was written by Perry as an experiment to see if she could write something in a completely different style to what she had previously done. As well as using different instruments, she also wrote the songs lyrics, deliberately using every party cliche she could think of. By the time Perry was approached by Pink, the song had been completed, and had already been offered to Madonna, who had turned it down.

In 2006 the Welsh singer Dame Shirley Bassey (see also best songs 441) covered the song for their Marks & Spencer Christmas television advertising campaign. It was later released as a single in 2007, and reached Number 47 in the UK, giving Bassey her 33rd charting song since ‘The Banana Boat Song (Day-O’) had made Number 8 in 1957. This made Shirley Bassey the first female artist in the UK chart to have had chart entry’s spanning over a 50 year period.

‘Pumpin’ up the volume, breakin’ down to the beat, cruisin’ through the Westside, we’ll be checkin’ the scene.Boulevard is freakin’ as I’m comin’ up fast, I’ll be burnin’ rubber, you’ll be kissin’ my ass.’