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Funhouse

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 20 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 63 votes
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Album Info
Label: LaFace
Release Date: 28 October 2008
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Dance, Pop
Summary
The fifth album for the pop artist features tracks produced by Max Martin and Butch Walker.
Also By This Artist: I'm Not Dead M!ssundaztood Try This
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly
The sadder Pink gets, the better the big, rocky roar that characterizes much of the disc sounds.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe
Pink continues to make everything she touches her own. She uses brains and brawn to turn the mainstream into a complicated place.
Read Full Review >Spin
Whether struggling with sobriety or confronting her own meanness, Pink has never been less cool: She's hot-blooded throughout, and it suits both her pipes and a female pop genre that rarely embraces this much tangible pain.
Read Full Review >Village Voice
Ms. Alecia Moore turns tragedy into a huge artistic coup once again on the only somewhat inaccurately named Funhouse.
Read Full Review >Billboard
On her confident fifth album, the multiplatinum hitmaker attacks her recent divorce in all styles.
Read Full Review >The Phoenix
Give Pink three spins and half a chance and by track five's killer New Order riff, you'll be singing 'Please, Don't Leave Me' back at her.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
Perhaps Funhouse is a victim of its own excess: it may be inevitable that an album of 14 songs with more than a dozen credited writers will end up as hit and miss, as messy as this.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Funhouse is a ride, empowered by her post-divorce freedom. In a way, that does make Funhouse unique among divorce albums, as it's the first to concentrate on liberation rather than loss--but if she was going to go in this direction, Pink may have been better off not pretending that she's bothered by the breakup.
Read Full Review >Hartford Courant
Anything that reduces Pink's in-your-face presence, and that includes a preponderance of slowed-down, tarted-up examinations of divorce, is probably an ill-advised move.
Read Full Review >Vibe
Funhouse is more haunting than amusing, but the solidarity that comes along with her recent divorce serves as the effort's muse and proves to be her best partner in life.
Read Full Review >Slant Magazine
If the album doesn't always make that point in its words, it consistently makes that point by being as fun a pop record as Pink's albums tend to be.
Read Full Review >Blender
The bigger the gamble, the stronger she feels. By the end of the record, she’s lassoing the moon, getting through her loneliness the way she got past teen pop: by sheer force of will.
Read Full Review >Observer Music Monthly
Her new album lays into her ex-husband with devilish choruses and potent hooks.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Funhouse would be more fun if Pink went easier on the bad-love songs.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
Frustratingly, the sound and the fury is followed by a string of damp ballads charting her split from her husband, but Funhouse is a solid album nevertheless.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
The otherwise likeably raunchy and bratty Pink is now officially walking a fine line, leaning dangerously close to the humdrum.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
In the end, Funhouse bites off more than it can chew, but it never chokes on its ambitions: it shows Pink as one who is unsure of her post-marital identity, hopping around from emotion to emotion without ever settling onto a state of stability until the album’s well-timed closing moments.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
Angst is very well in small doses, but over an entire album it can start to grate.
Read Full Review >The New York Times
Even though Pink oozes disappointment in herself and others, her music mostly fails to keep up.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Pink can reach unusually stirring heights when in the right register. That register, on Funhouse, is something close to despondence with a lot of tiredness thrown in--just enough to make Pink forego her instinct for winking and simply sound pained instead.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 63 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Anonymous gave it a10:
The best album of P!nk's career. The slow songs don't hold back the upbeat party tracks even for one second, and her voice delivers more emotion than ever before. I had so much fun listening to this. Best tracks: So What, Funhouse, Please Don't Leave Me, and Sober.
Jay Jay gave it a9:
Not a die hard fan by any means, but this album has some great singles. The slow serious songs may not match Morrissey levels, but the pop anthems are above anything "serious" songwriters could envision. P!nk just has "it." I can't help but root for her.
Phoebe H. gave it a10:
This is the best album around at the moment! Her songs are catchy, deep, dark and absouloutley awsome! she hasnt just got an amoazing voice and looks, she is also an amzaing song writer herself!
Jamie I gave it a10:
All I can say is AMAZING! This is my first Pink CD and she is one talented woman.
Delspencerdeltorro gave it a7:
It's a really solid pop/rock album. It has songs that are slow and serious, and songs that are fast and fun, and there are excellent tracks in both categories. More fun would be appreciated, but fortunately, the slow songs don't weigh it down too much.
Mike R. gave it a10:
A perfectly balanced album with a song (or more) for everyone. Pink has outdone herself, once again! I love this CD.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Russell loves Pink and loves this!
