Perry, the former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman who went on to write hits for Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, and Alicia Keys, opened up in a recent interview with Elmo Lovanoon on his Go With Elmo Lovano show about the unlikely origin story behind Pink's career-defining single 'Get the Party Started.' The short version; she wrote it as a joke, offered it to Madonnafirst, got rejected, and then handed it to a stranger named Pink who had literally tracked down her phone number.
Perry had been curious about the glossy pop sounds she kept hearing on the radio and on MTV. An analog purist by training, she asked a producer friend to walk her through the gear everyone was using; a Triton keyboard, Roland expansion cards, an MPC drum machine. She bought the equipment, plugged it all in, and started experimenting. What came out was a pulsing, sample-driven beat she layered with bongos, bass, strings, a clavinet, guitar, and fake horns. Then she picked up a harmonica microphone and started free-associating.
Her first call wasn't to Pink. Perry had met Madonna at a club, worked up the nerve to introduce herself, and scored a contact to send the song to Madonna's manager, Guy Oseary. The reply came back quickly. 'This is not for Madonna.'
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Perry brought the joke song to their first meeting almost as an afterthought. 'I don't even know what I would do with something like this,' she told Pink. 'It's not me at all. I'm never going to record this song.' Two days later, Pink called back. L.A. Reid had declared it the lead single.
Pink's Missundaztood, released in November 2001, sold somewhere between 12 and 13 million copies worldwide. Perry has been waiting on that Bentley ever since.
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