Pink And Dallas Green Get Together For New Project, You+Me
Fans of Pink and City and Colour will be pleased to know that the two will be releasing an album this fall …but not in the way they normally do. For the first time ever, City and Colour, real name Dallas Green, and Pink, real name Alecia Moore, are collaborating under the guise of You+Me.
At first glance, the pairing seems a little odd for a number of reasons. You gotta wonder: what’s a big superstar like Pink doing with a fairly popular but not huge act like Dallas Green? And can Pink’s mainstream pop sound clash with Green’s indie charm? To answer these: Alecia Moore met Green through her husband, motorcycle racer Carey Hart, and they both felt a musical connection. He even opened a couple of dates on Pink’s The Truth About Love tour. According to a press release, the two got together in the studio and wrote more songs than expected - so they figured they might as well make a whole album. The result is a ten track full-length entitled rose ave., and the only problem we have is that the band name isn’t an awesome pun on “Pink” and “Green.”
More: Watch the lyric video for You+Me’s song, ‘You and Me’
Not only did they announce the band formation and album, but they released the lead single from the record, too. ‘You And Me,’ which premiered in the form of a lyric video, showcases the musical connection that they felt perfectly. The song is light and melodic and very in line with what we’re used to seeing out of City and Colour’s catalog, but for Pink, it’s pretty much uncharted territory. The duo’s vocals mix together brilliantly and the track is a great addition to each member’s career - and we can only assume that rose ave. will be filled with songs just like ‘You and Me’ when it drops on October 14.
Next page: Where will rose ave. stand in each member’s discography?
For Dallas Green, rose ave. will be the singer/songwriter’s first non-City and Colour output since 2010. Before City and Colour, Green fronted the post hardcore rock band Alexisonfire, but they broke up following their 2010 release. Since then, it’s been strictly City and Colour all the way through, and it was probably the best decision. City and Colour’s albums since Alexisonfire’s break up, Little Hell and The Hurry and The Harm, both debuted at number one on the Canadian Album Charts and charted within the top 30 on the Billboard 200. When rose ave. is released, it’ll undoubtedly be another chart topping venture for Green, and with Pink attached to the project, it could be his best U.S. debut yet, as Alexisonfire’s best debut on Billboard was only #81.
You+Me might be a little different for Pink than it is for Green. Green’s been around the indie/folk rock scene for a while now, but until now, Pink has never stepped foot in it. The album is being marketed under Alecia Moore, too - not Pink. Either the label just wants people to know that it isn’t technically a “Pink album” to avoid backlash, or Pink wants to attach her real name because the music is a representation of her true self.
Either way, any music from Pink … err, Moore … is a good thing, and it’s long overdue as we’ve been waiting for a new full-length since 2012’s The Truth About Love. It might not be the pop heavy sound we know and love, but it seems like the project is something that she really wants to do. “I have a lot of singer/songwriter friends at barbecues and they'll always be the ones who get asked to sing a song. I'm never going to be asked to sing a song, because I'm a pop star,” she said in an interview with Billboard last year. “It's like every year I'm constantly having to reprove myself.” If You+Me is the result of Pink trying to prove herself, it may just be the last time she needs to do it.