themed week // Pink, What's Up? (4 Non Blondes)

Pink (or P!nk) is the artistic name for the pop/rock artist Alecia Beth Moore who's career started in 1995.
P!nk is known for songs like Get The Party Started, Dear Mr. President, So What? or Raise Your Glass.

With 5 studio albums: Can't Take Me Home (2000), Missundaztood (2001), Try This (2003), I'm Not Dead (2006) and Funhouse (2008). A new album is being prepared to be released in 2012.
In 2010 she released her first compilation album Greatest Hits... So Far!!!.

What's Up? was a song written by Linda Perry for the North-American 4 Non Blondes debut album released in 1992 - Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Despite the title, the lyrics don't have the phrase "What's Up?" rather the lyrics "what's goin' on?". The title was changed to avoid confusions with the song What's Going On by Marvin Gaye.
The song has a love-hate relation on the media - considered to be good to some and bad to others. Besides What's Up? reached the top on several charts including Billboard Hot 100.

This song has a clear message - someone on the internet said "is obviously about a person who has reached a point in their life when they aren't at their best moment. The world is spinning around them with everyone else changing while they seem to be stuck in this rut they can't get out of. I think it might be depression because they just can't seem to understand why everything's changing around them and they're not happy. And the only way to be happly with herself is to find the answer by going outside and screaming until she realizes what is going with her life. " - read more suggestions here.

I couldn't agree more, this comment above really expresses all my thoughts about this song.

P!nk's version appears on her I'm Not Dead DVD - recorded in Wembley in London, released in 2007.

Check the original here. 

Sky Ferreira, 17

Sky Ferreira is an American pop singer, besides being a model and an actress.

Ferreira is of Portuguese, Brazilian and Native American descent. Through her childhood she sang on Gospel songs in church and she revealed in an interview, she grew up with family friend Michael Jackson, and stated: "We just became friends with him. When I was born, I was raised around him, I always saw him. I had holidays with him and stuff like that."

Around her 13 years she started to take Opera lessons to improve her singing voice. The first years of her career were on MySpace where she uploaded several demo of self-written songs.
Before turning 15, she caught the attention of Swedish producers Bloodshy &Avant, by sending them a message through social networks and they got fascinated with her and decided to work with Sky.

In 2009, she signed with Parlophone Records, appeared on Uffie's video Pop The Glock and also appeared on a movie.
Besides some modeling campaigns, Ferreira started to prepare and record material for her debut album with Bloodshy & Avant, Linda Perry and Frankmusik.
After releasing two singles - One and Obsession - and saying they would be part of an album, the album supposed to be released in 2011 was changed and an EP was released instead under the name As If! which was released on March 22 of this year.

This song 17 was released in 2010 with Emi Music. 

"Sneaking out at night she's dancing at the night club

Yeah she got a fake id and they'll never know she's 17"