Hard Hitter
One of my dearest friends sent me a link to the uncensored video of this song. For my more squimish readers, I won’t post it even though I respect it and think it was necessary. I had to share this song. The uncensored video arrested my attention and broke me. It was a healing break. Sometimes art doesn’t come clean and packaged pretty. Sometimes like a newborn baby in the delivery room it comes bloody and messy and packaged in pain. Sometimes that is the only way to say what needs to be said. Raw. Painful. Unsanitized. I know that image isn’t ok for some folks. But Pink left her mark on me with that video and I was moved. I will leave it to the discretion of my readers to find the original video if they want. I wouldn’t trade having experienced it for anything. It was hard. Very hard. But it was something that communicated clearly and changed me. Here is the censored version with no video. If you have the courage Pink had in writing the uncesored version and creating that video, I recommend you watch it. If not, I pray at least this censored version’s lyrics embeds this song deep in your heart and gives you the courage to find that “perfect” moment.
Filed under: art, life, music, purpose, relating well, relationships on January 24th, 2011
I want to give a huge thank you hug to whatever friend sent you that video. It is so very, very true. I am grateful it’s helped you move towards healing. You are, you know, perfect. To the friend who sent it, clearly, and to me, and to all those who truly matter.
What a beautiful message and so much deeper meaning in the original video — she’s so right, and you are so right – it’s a necessary thing to say in this day and age. I am glad to have heard it and to have seen the video. Thanks for recommending it.
Putting it (probably the clean version) in the boys’ playlists. It’s a good message even for boys to hear these days — change those voices in your head, make them like you instead. Man, I wish she’d been around back when we were in Jr High/Middle school…..
Again, to whatever friend sent you the link, tell her thank you for me.