• March 12, 2009
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Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me [2009]

Please Don’t Leave Me

“Please Don't Leave Me” cover
Single by Pink
from the album Funhouse
Released January 31, 2009
(See Release History)
Format Digital download, CD single
Recorded 2008
Genre Pop
Length 3:52
Label LaFace
Writer(s) Pink, Max Martin
Producer Max Martin
Pink singles chronology
“Sober”
(2008)		 “Please Don’t Leave Me”
(2009)

“Please Don’t Leave Me” is a song from Pink’s 2008 studio album Funhouse. The song has been announced as the third single in Australia, and will likely serve as the third single elsewhere. It was released January 31, 2009 in Australia, though dates elsewhere have not been confirmed. The song has already received airplay on several Australian and New Zealand stations, and a music video has been shot and released. The song has also been performed numerous times to promote the album.

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Background

“Please Don’t Leave Me” was co-written by Pink and famed pop songwriter/producer Max Martin, who handled the production as well for the track. It is one of four songs from the album produced by Max Martin, with the number one single “So What” being another of the four. The song is a mid-tempo track that details a love-hate relationship. Pink sings of someone having a bad effect on her, yet not being able to let go of the person. She insists during the chorus, “I always say how I don’t need you, but it’s always gonna come right back to this, please don’t leave me.”

The song was one of the first three to be heard and performed off of Funhouse, being performed along with “So What” and second single, “Sober“, live on Much Music, prior to the album’s release.

Track listing

Australian CD Single[1]
  1. “Please Don’t Leave Me”
  2. “Please Don’t Leave Me” (Junior Vasquez Tribal Dub)

Music video

The music video for “Please Don’t Leave Me” was shot in late 2008, leaked to the internet on January 23, 2009, and officially premiered on Pink’s YouTube channel on January 27, 2009[2]. It was directed by Dave Meyers. A highly unique and unusual music video, it draws influences from the 1990 Stephen King based film Misery, as well as other similar thrillers. It utilizes both the horror/thriller genre, while also being interpretable as a dark comedy. In the week beginning February 27 the video was named Channel V’s ‘Ripe’ clip of the week.

The male lead in the video was portrayed by actor Eric Lively. Brian Christensen served as stunt coordinator, Nikki Hester as stunt double for Pink, and Justin Sundquist as stunt double for Eric Lively.

It begins inside Pink’s house, where after a fight with her boyfriend, she is shown trying to stop him from packing his stuff in preparation to leave. He exits the bedroom with his bags, and as he reaches the stairway Pink pleads with him to stay. He refuses and turns to leave. As he does so, he slips on some marbles on the floor and endures a rough fall down the stairs. He sees Pink coming towards him down the stairs, with an innocent expression on her face, and blacks out. He awakens, bruised and swollen in bed with Pink dressed in a nursing type of uniform, stitching up one of his wounds. She dances suggestively for him, while he tries to grasp for the telephone at the bedside, only to have Pink smash his kneecaps with a golf club (a direct imitation of one of the scenes from the aforementioned movie Misery).

Pink is then shown in the kitchen preparing a salad, rapidly and angrily chopping the vegetables with a large knife. Her boyfriend awakens in bed, and attempts to sneak out through the door, but Pink catches him at the doorway. She gives him a bewildered look while holding the bowl of salad, as he debates whether or not he can escape. He opens the door, only to be instantly attacked by one of Pink’s dogs. He is next shown opening his eyes to Pink’s face yet again, as she paints his face with clownish makeup, while he sits in a wheelchair. She is wearing another lavish outfit. His hands are tied, and he is bruised and battered almost beyond recognition. Pink grabs his wheelchair, spins it around a few times and pushes it off a high step, seeming to enjoy herself in the process. He flies out of the chair, into a room filled with carnival themed objects such as horses used in a merry go round and various dolls. Pink lays on top of him, acting completely innocent, and kissing his cheek. He manages to crawl out from under and begins to attempt another escape.

Pink chases him into the garage, where she grabs an axe and continues to stalk him through the house. He reaches the upstairs bathroom, and shuts the door just in time to block Pink charging psychotically down the hallway with the axe. The axe breaks through the wood, leaving a hole in the door. Pink looks in though the hole (a direct imitation from the Stephen King based film, “The Shining” ), as the guy grabs a spray can, spraying her in the eyes. Blinded, she flails backwards, and slips on the marbles from the beginning of the video, falling over the upstairs railing. The final scene shows the paramedics taking the man out on a stretcher, and Pink lying on the floor with her leg broken and the axe beside her. She gives him one final look of desperation not to leave as he is wheeled out, before blowing a kiss to the camera with a comically, psychotic look on her face.

The music video first aired on UK television on 4Music on March 8th, 2009 at 10:45pm[3][4]. It showed the full video, uncensored.

Release History

Region Date
Australia January 31, 2009
Germany April 17, 2009
United Kingdom April 27, 2009[5]
Europe April, 2009
North America April 31, 2009
Latin America May, 2009

Chart performance

“Please Don’t Leave Me” made a #46 debut on the Australian ARIA Charts the chart week of 19 January 2009, prior to its release date as a single. On The Official Australian Airplay chart, the song has debuted at #8, making it the highest debut song ever on this chart other than Delta Goodrem’s, “In This Life” which debuted at #6 in September, 2007. In its third week on the Airplay Chart it managed to peak at #1, making it Pink’s third consecutive single to do so, and making it the first song to peak at #1 in that many weeks[6], In the UK it debut at 162 due to the album sales of its parent album (Funhouse). In New Zealand, the song debuted at number twenty-eight on February 23, 2009, and has so far peaked at number nineteen.[7]

Charts

Chart (2009)  ↓ Peak
position  ↓
Australian Singles Chart[8] 11
New Zealand Singles Chart[9] 19
Turkey Top 20 Chart[10] 19
UK Singles Chart[11] 162

References

  1. ^ http://b2b.sonybmg.com.au/cd/releaseDetails.do?catalogueNo=88697471622
  2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/PinkVideoVault
  3. ^ “Pink: Video Exlusive (Please Don’t Leave Me)”. Sky Digital. 2009-03-08. http://tv.sky.com/tvlistings. Retrieved on 2009-03-08.
  4. ^ “Sky Digital TV Guide”. Sky Digital/Keith Feeney. 2009-03-08. http://www.keithfeeney.com/Pink%20-%20TV%20Listing.jpg. Retrieved on 2009-03-08.
  5. ^ http://www.radio1.gr/music/forthcoming_uk_singles.htm
  6. ^ http://www.aumreport.com/amr100.html
  7. ^ http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp
  8. ^ “P!nk – Please Don’t Leave Me (song)”. australian-charts.com. http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=P%21nk&titel=Please+Don%27t+Leave+Me&cat=s. Retrieved on 2009-02-02.
  9. ^ http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp
  10. ^ Turkey Top 20 Chart Retrieved on 2009-02-23
  11. ^ http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK2008.HTM

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