Beam Me Up
by Pink

Album: The Truth About Love (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Pink penned this heartfelt acoustic ballad with frequent songwriting partner Billy Mann. Their previous collaborations include "Stupid Girls" and "Glitter In The Air."
  • Pink explained on a track-by-track on the Spotify streaming service that the song "deals with the loss of a loved one, a loss of a child." She added that it's, "very, very, very, very personal."
  • In a 2017 interview with Variety, Mann said this is an enduring tune for fans who have experienced tragedy. "I've gotten more fan mail from other parents who lost a child from that song than from most others," he explained. "Photos of lyric tattoos... incredible stories. After the mass shooting of children in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, and the nation was stunned, iHeart national star, Elvis Duran played 'Beam Me Up' on his morning show each day to help people heal."
  • In a 2012 webchat, Pink said she was inspired by a close friend's experience of losing a child. The singer herself had become a mother for the first time a year earlier when her daughter, Willow, was born.
  • The Truth About Love, Pink's sixth studio album, was released four years after her previous album, Funhouse. Her comeback gave her the most successful first-week sales of her career at the time, with 280,000 copies sold. The album, her first US #1, went on to sell 3 million copies in America.

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