It's the kind of bewitching almost-logic that drives people to endlessly re-watch David Lynch's Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire. But don't look to Pink's lyrics for clues, because they offer few ways to emotionally engage.
On "Symphony of the Nymph", he speak-sings the song's title in an exaggerated scientist voice straight out of Thomas Dolby 's catalogue over a backing track located somewhere between "Monster Mash" and " Werewolf Bar Mitzvah ".
On "Farewell American Primitive", the sentiment that comes through most clearly is, "Fuck it. It's a Chinese finger trap. When The Village Voice interviewed Pink in , he suggested that he'd lost the ability to make music the way he did in his earlier, more prolific days.
But Mature Themes is as vital as anything he's ever recorded: Even the throwaway "Schnitzel Boogie" fails at being one-dimensional, playing instead like something McCartney might have worked on for the fifth side of the White Album. This seesaw between sincerity and insincerity is the fuel that drives Pink's music.
It's the riddle that creates his cult, and it's the reason everyone will continue to pay attention to him, no matter how many faces he pulls. The 25 Best Songs of Best Film Performances of May 4, September 15, September 20, Endless Summer Turns 20 Twenty years on, the album feels less dated than a lot of similarly chimeric music from it….
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Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Which brings us to the music itself. Those looking for the genre-bending nirvana of Before Today are going to be largely disappointed with Mature Themes , as Pink has largely here pushed the songs into some pretty bizarre territory.
Overall, despite the fact that Mature Themes pushes into some very abstract pop territory, it is a very compelling listen.
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