# I'm Not Dead
**I'm Not Dead** is the fourth studio album by the American singer and songwriter P!nk (Alecia Moore), released on April 4, 2006 by [LaFace Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/laface-records). It followed the 2003 album *[Try This](https://www.edgepedia.org/try-this)* and marked a return to the pop-rock style of her 2001 breakthrough *M!ssundaztood*, combining pop-rock and dance-pop tracks with protest songs, ballads, and addresses to her young female audience.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) • [2](https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-not-dead-mw0000720047)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Artist / album | Fourth studio album by P!nk (Alecia Moore)[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) |
| Release | April 4, 2006, LaFace Records[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) |
| Length and genre | 54:12; Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Dance-Pop[2](https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-not-dead-mw0000720047) |
| Singles | "Stupid Girls", "Who Knew", "U + Ur Hand"[3](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/BMI-Magazine/00s/BMI-Music-World-2008-09-Winter.pdf) |
| Guest appearance | The Indigo Girls guest on a stripped-down protest song[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) |
| Critical reception | Metascore 70 (generally favorable, 20 critic reviews); user score 8.5 (249 ratings)[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) |
| UK chart | Number 3 on the UK album chart, listed on LaFace (catalog 8287683302)[4](https://ghostarchive.org/pdfarc/EFodl) |
## Background
The album followed *Try This* (2003), which the *Guardian* described as a flop whose commercial performance, together with Pink's marriage in 2006, was seen as testing her credibility as a rock-leaning pop artist.[5](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/mar/31/popandrock.shopping1) Slant Magazine similarly characterized the new record as an attempt to regain the audience lost with *Try This*, the album whose title had acknowledged the risk of pushing punk rock on pop listeners.[6](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/pink-im-not-dead/) The Japan Times reviewer offered a reading of the title itself as confrontational, musing that it might refer to her marriage or to her previous album selling platinum rather than multi-platinum.[7](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/05/19/music/cd-reviews/pink-im-not-dead/)
## Production and collaborators
Recording took place across many studios, including [Chateau Marmont](https://www.edgepedia.org/chateau-marmont) and several Los Angeles facilities, Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood, The Magic Shop in New York, and Decibel Studios in Virginia Beach, among others listed by AllMusic.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-not-dead-mw0000720047) MusicBrainz credits list producer Billy Mann on "Stupid Girls" with mixer Tom Lord-Alge, and identify [Dr. Luke](https://www.edgepedia.org/dr-luke) and [Max Martin](https://www.edgepedia.org/max-martin) as the producers of "Who Knew"; Gottwald and Martin also played guitars on that track and programmed its drums.[8](https://musicbrainz.org/release/84a8872c-0486-4a1b-8a77-d219a0dd547c) The range of collaborators reflected the album's musical spread: Pink worked with Max Martin, the writer behind Britney Spears hits, on one track, and brought in the Indigo Girls for a stripped-down protest song.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead)
## Songs and themes
The lead single "Stupid Girls" is a put-down of what the *Independent* called "dime-store celebrocracy", in which Pink professes a liking for "outcasts and girls with ambition".[9](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-pink-5335895.html) Sputnikmusic described it as a lyrically pointed and genuinely funny cut that mocks the "Paris Hiltons of this world" while approaching motivating young females from a different angle.[10](https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/27654/Pink-Im-Not-Dead/)
Other songs took up celebrity and money from several directions. "'Cuz I Can" has her flaunting her bling even as she tears down "porno paparazzi girls" like [Paris Hilton](https://www.edgepedia.org/paris-hilton), and "I Got Money Now" is a knowingly melancholy reflection that the *Los Angeles Times* called a savage sendup of pop's nouveaux riches.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-not-dead-mw0000720047) • [11](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-02-ca-rack2.1-story.html) "U + Ur Hand", the lap-dancer's put-down the *Independent* listed among its download recommendations, sits alongside the female masturbation anthem "Fingers" and the contemptuous "Centerfold".[9](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-pink-5335895.html)
The album also carried political and personal material. The Japan Times singled out the anti-Bush message song, the poor-little-rich-star ballad, and the "conversation" with her "13-year-old self", judging that nothing she sang rang absolutely false.[7](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/05/19/music/cd-reviews/pink-im-not-dead/) The Guardian noted "I Have Seen the Rain", an acoustic duet with her father, who wrote the song while serving in Vietnam, calling it a lesson in subtlety and maturity.[5](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/mar/31/popandrock.shopping1) In its review summary, Sputnikmusic placed "Long Way To Happy" and the title track among the album's crowd-pleasing pop-rock cuts even though neither was released as a single.[10](https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/27654/Pink-Im-Not-Dead/)
## Reception
Critics were broadly favorable. The Metacritic score distribution shows 11 positive, 8 mixed, and 1 negative reviews out of 20, yielding a Metascore of 70, "generally favorable reviews".[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) [Individual](https://www.edgepedia.org/individual) scores included a 91 from the Village Voice Consumer Guide, 83 from [Entertainment Weekly](https://www.edgepedia.org/entertainment-weekly), 80 from PopMatters, 67 from E! Online, and 60 from musicOMH, which called the record a "weird mish-mash of FM rock, folky ballads, and funky, poppy dance tracks" that made for a diverting but not totally successful listen.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) PopMatters called it "a wildly ambitious album that solidifies Pink's status as superbad funky rocker chick".[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead)
Reception was not uniform. The Independent found an ambivalence in which iconoclastic moments sat next to what it called a drab power-ballad, and judged "Conversations With My 13 Year Old Self" cringeworthy while praising "Stupid Girls".[9](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-pink-5335895.html) Slant Magazine acknowledged that Pink had "more edge in her pinky toe than any of her contemporaries" while reading the album as calculated.[6](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/pink-im-not-dead/) Sputnikmusic, by contrast, argued she could well have released her best effort yet, returning to the top of the female pop-rock throne with an album that was simultaneously consistent and unpredictable.[10](https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/27654/Pink-Im-Not-Dead/)
On the commercial side, the album entered and peaked at number 3 on the UK album chart according to ChartsPlus year-end compilation data.[4](https://ghostarchive.org/pdfarc/EFodl) Metacritic ranked it the 16th most discussed and 27th most shared album of 2006.[1](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead) The singles "Who Knew" and "U + Ur Hand" are the tracks BMI Magazine later named when recapping Pink's 2006 release.[3](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/BMI-Magazine/00s/BMI-Music-World-2008-09-Winter.pdf) In August 2006 Mix Magazine reported Pink touring clubs across the United States off the album, with a world tour beginning the following month.[12](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Mix-Magazine/00s/2006/Mix-2006-08.pdf)
## Place in P!nk's catalog
AllMusic's discography timeline places *I'm Not Dead* between *Try This* (2003) and *Funhouse* (2008), the fourth of what would become seven albums by 2012.[2](https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-not-dead-mw0000720047) Singer-songwriter Greg Kurstin, who later worked extensively with Pink, had a brief earlier collaboration on this album: he and Pink wrote "Centerfold" for the album's deluxe and international editions, according to a Rolling Stone feature.[13](https://tiffanybakker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PINK-ROLLING-STONE.pdf)
## References
1. [I'm Not Dead by P!nk Reviews and Tracks, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/music/im-not-dead)
2. [P!nk: I'm Not Dead Tracks & Reviews, AllMusic](https://www.allmusic.com/album/im-not-dead-mw0000720047)
3. [Pink Is Poised to Scale New Heights, BMI Music World (Winter 2008)](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/BMI-Magazine/00s/BMI-Music-World-2008-09-Winter.pdf)
4. [ChartsPlus Year-End 2006](https://ghostarchive.org/pdfarc/EFodl)
5. [Album: Pink, The Guardian (31 March 2006)](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/mar/31/popandrock.shopping1)
6. [Review: Pink, I'm Not Dead, Slant Magazine](https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/pink-im-not-dead/)
7. [Pink "I'm Not Dead", The Japan Times (19 May 2006)](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/05/19/music/cd-reviews/pink-im-not-dead/)
8. [Release “I'm Not Dead” by P!nk, MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/release/84a8872c-0486-4a1b-8a77-d219a0dd547c)
9. [Album: Pink, The Independent (31 March 2006)](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-pink-5335895.html)
10. [Pink - I'm Not Dead (album review), Sputnikmusic](https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/27654/Pink-Im-Not-Dead/)
11. [Think of Pink as a spectrum, Los Angeles Times (2 April 2006)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-02-ca-rack2.1-story.html)
12. [Mix Magazine, August 2006 issue](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Mix-Magazine/00s/2006/Mix-2006-08.pdf)
13. [W. Hart is credited on two of her mum's tracks, Rolling Stone feature (PDF)](https://tiffanybakker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PINK-ROLLING-STONE.pdf)
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