P!nk’s second single off of her sophomore effort, “Don’t Let Me Get Me” is a nitty gritty song about hating yourself, in the song Pink hates the way she looks and has very low self esteem. This message seemed to connect with audiences, seeing as the song reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40...
[Verse 1]
Never win first place, I don't support the team
I can't take direction, and my socks are never clean
Teachers dated me, my parents hated me
I was always in a fight, 'cause I can't do nothing right
[Pre-Chorus]
Every day I fight a war against the mirror
I can't take the person staring back at me
I'm a hazard to myself
[Chorus]
Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
I wanna be somebody else, yeah
[Verse 2]
LA told me, "You'll be a pop star
All you have to change is everything you are."
Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears
She's so pretty
That just ain't me
[Pre-Chorus]
So doctor, doctor, won't you please prescribe me something?
A day in the life of someone else
'Cause I'm a hazard to myself
[Chorus]
Don't let me get me (No)
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating (No)
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else, yeah
Don't let me get me (Don't let me)
I'm my own worst enemy (Oh)
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
[Bridge]
So doctor, doctor, won't you please prescribe me something?
A day in the life of someone else
Don't let me get me
[Chorus]
Oh, I'm a hazard to myself, yeah
Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself (Yourself)
So irritating (So irritating)
Don't wanna be my friend no more (Don't, don't)
I wanna be somebody else
Don't let me get me (Don't let, don't let)
I'm my own worst enemy (Don't let me get me)
It's bad when you annoy yourself (It's bad, it's so bad)
So irritating (Oh)
Don't wanna be my friend no more (Ahh)
I wanna be somebody else
[Outro]
Don't let me get me
Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
Don’t Let Me Get Me was written by Dallas Austin & P!nk.
Don’t Let Me Get Me was produced by Dallas Austin.
P!nk released Don’t Let Me Get Me on Wed Dec 19 2001.
In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #84 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
It’s perhaps poetic justice that Pink’s Disney-verified, early-2000s rivals were ineligible for this list. Not Lolita-esque à la Britney (‘Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears/Sh...