As he does so, he slips on some marbles on the floor and endures a rough fall down the stairs.

He exits the bedroom with his bags, and as he reaches the stairway Pink pleads with him to stay. The video begins inside Pink's house, where after a fight with her boyfriend, she is shown trying to stop him from packing his stuff in preparation to leave. The music video first aired on UK television on 4Music on Maat 10:45pm. Brian Christensen served as stunt coordinator, Nikki Hester as stunt double for Pink, and Justin Sundquist as stunt double for Eric Lively. The male lead in the video was portrayed by actor Eric Lively. In the week beginning February 27 the video was named Channel V's 'Ripe' clip of the week. It utilizes both the horror/ thriller genre, while also being interpretable as a dark comedy. The video draws influences from the 1990 Stephen King based film Misery, as well as other similar thrillers, including Cujo, The Shining and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. The music video for 'Please Don't Leave Me' was shot in late 2008, leaked to the internet on January 23, 2009, and officially premiered on Pink's YouTube channel on January 27, 2009. The song sold well digitally, entering the Hot Digital Songs chart at #70 and rising 26 spots to #44 the following week. But after weeks of release spent on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart, the song debuted on #66 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #17, giving Pink her third top 20 hit from Funhouse, as well as her sixth consecutive top 20 on the chart. 'Please Don't Leave Me' climbed relatively slowly after its release in the United States. In the United Kingdom the song re-entered the chart on 15 March 2009 at 171 due to digital sales from 'Funhouse' and reached a new peak of number #12, making it her 17th top twenty hit in the UK. In New Zealand, the song debuted at number 28 on February 23, 2009, and has peaked at number 19. In the UK it debuted at 162 on 2 November 2008 due to the downloads of the song from its parent album ( Funhouse), which was newly released that week. In its third week on the Airplay Chart it managed to peak at #1, making it Pink's third consecutive single to do so, and making it the first song to peak at #1 in that many weeks. On the Official Australian Airplay chart, the song debuted at #8, making it the second-highest debut song ever on the chart behind Delta Goodrem's, ' In This Life' which debuted at #6 in September, 2007. 'Please Don't Leave Me' made a #46 debut on the Australian ARIA Charts the chart week of 19 January 2010. Still, entertaining as the video is, it's Pink's bruised vocals - which convey the combination of bitterness and regret in her lyrics perfectly - that leave the biggest impression.' Chart performance 'I can be so mean when I wanna be, I am capable of really anything,' sings Pink here, one of several lines that resonate harder once you've seen her brandishing a golf club, chucking her invalid boyfriend out of his wheelchair and chasing him round the house with an axe. Within the context of her Funhouse album, 'Please Don't Leave Me' seemed like a quite good angsty break-up song - one of many quite good angsty break-up songs on there - but after watching the Misery-inspired promo it becomes something far more memorable. Reception Critical reception ĭigital Spy gave the song a positive review: 'A really good video can make you realise a song's better than you originally thought - a case in point being the new Pink single. She insists during the chorus, 'I always say how I don't need you, but it's always gonna come right back to this, please don't leave me.' The song was one of the first three to be heard and performed from Funhouse, being performed along with 'So What' and second single, ' Sober', live on Much Music, prior to the album's release. Pink sings of someone having a bad effect on her, yet not being able to let go of the person. The song is a mid-tempo track that details a love-hate relationship.

It is one of four songs from the album produced by Max Martin, with the number one single ' So What' being another of the four. 'Please Don't Leave Me' was co-written by Pink and Max Martin, who handled the production as well, for the track.

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