Pom Pom

Pom Pom (stylized as pom pom) is the tenth studio album by American recording artist Ariel Pink, released on November 17, 2014 through 4AD. It was his first release credited solely to himself, and his last on 4AD. Several of its songs were co-written with the ailing Kim Fowley, who died the following January. Critics generally gave the album positive reviews. Only one single was issued from the album: "Put Your Number in My Phone". Background Among direct influences on the album, Pink cited the Mothers of Invention, the Cure, and Todd Rundgren. The songs "Jell-O," "Plastic Raincoats In The Pig Parade", "Sexual Athletics", "Exile On Frog Street", and "Nude Beach A Go-Go" were co-written by Kim Fowley, from his hospital bed for Pink to perform. The album also features vocal contributions from French singer-songwriter Soko; Pink returned the favor by co-writing and guesting on two tracks off Soko's second studio album, My Dreams Dictate My Reality (2015). The track "Nude Beach a Go-Go" was also recorded by American rapper Azealia Banks. This version of the song, produced by Pink, appears on Banks' debut album Broke With Expensive Taste (2014). The track "Put Your Number in My Phone" was released as the first single off the album on August 9, 2014. The music video for the track was released in September 2014. The music videos for the tracks "Picture Me Gone" and "Dayzed Inn Daydreams", both directed by Grant Singer, were released on November 4, 2014 and January 26, 2015, respectively. The latter video stars the Mau-Mau's frontman Rick Wilder. Promotion Pink recalled that he "didn’t even get to promote the record per se. I was just put on a very strange track of trying to double down or back up on things I said or supposedly said or said in response to someone. It was like going down a rabbit hole of retardation." Shortly before the album's release, Pink reported to the online journal Faster Louder that "Interscope are calling me to help write Madonna's record. They need something edgy. They need songwriting. She can’t just have her Avicii, her producers or whatever, come up with a new techno jam for her to gyrate to and pretend that she’s 20 years old. They actually need songs. I’m partly responsible for that return-to-values thing." The comments attracted the attention of Grimes, who called it "delusional misogyny" on her Twitter. Pink dismissed the subsequent controversy as "clickbait journalism.