Unwind
by Pink

Album: Try This (2003)
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Songfacts®:

  • A track from Pink's third album, she wrote this song with her producer, Tim Armstrong. Pink says she wrote it about her idol, Janis Joplin, but when she looked over the lyric, she realized it was really about her own life. It's one of her favorites from the album. "It's such a release," she said about it.
  • Armstrong is the lead singer and guitarist of the punk band Rancid. He met Pink at a video shoot for his side project, the Transplants and they hit it off. They wrote nine tracks together for Try This, including "Unwind."
  • Pink said the punk-influenced album was an act of rebellion against her record label after the pressure of touring in support of her breakthrough album, Missundaztood (2001). "I was going: 'You want a record? Fine, I'll write 10 songs in a week for your f--kin' record and you can press it up and put it out.' That was an awful time. I was walking out of half my interviews crying. I just felt they were putting a quarter in the slot to watch the monkey dance."

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