Britney Blasts Back at Pink

Britney Spears likes Pink's music, but she's sick of her mouth. In her song, Don't Let Me Get Me" (from 2001's Missundaztood), Pink sings, "Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears," and since then she's referred to Spears as a "puppet on a string."

According to Spears, Pink made the remark a week after sending Spears flowers to her hotel room. "She probably [said] that to protect her whole gimmick thing," Spears says. "I respect that, but don't be a hypocrite and put me down when you're, like, performing with your belly showing, too.

"I still think her music rocks," Spears continues. "But the whole thing hurt my feelings. I felt like, 'I thought you liked me. You sent me flowers.'"

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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