If you haven’t learned by now not to mess. Remember when I mentioned that middle finger in the air, here you go. The record starts off in true punk fashion with the track Hustle. There is no way that I can simply say that this collection of songs is simply a pop album. That’s where this song came from.” In the EDM-inspired "Can We Pretend” featuring Cash Cash, she asks rhetorical questions in an effort to escape reality: “Can we pretend that we will fight the president?/Can we pretend that we all end up okay?” Dizzying synths storm in before there’s time to ponder the answer, nudging listeners to let go and live in the moment. Hurts 2B Human perfectly showcases all of what I have said above. Everybody has their own experience and is going through something, so it’s all about the circle you create around you to get through all the bullshit in this world. “I am a woman, Khalid is a man, he’s African American, I’m Jewish. “The news will try to make you believe that everybody hates each other, and it’s just not true,” she said about the inspiration behind the title track, which features Khalid and was written by Teddy Geiger (best known for authoring some of Shawn Mendes’ biggest hits). Eventually, she realized she'd made album number eight-a lightly political package of sentimental ballads and pregame bangers that feels like classic P!nk.
“It just kept steamrolling.” In 2018, while touring her seventh album, Beautiful Trauma, the singer found herself in spontaneous recording sessions with musicians she’d never worked with before (Beck, Sia, Chris Stapleton, Cash Cash, Wrabel, Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, and many others). “ Hurts 2B Human was sort of a pebble that rolled downhill and became this boulder,” P!nk told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe.
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