The song received strong airplay in Australia and New Zealand, as well as being added to the BBC Radio 1 A-List playlist in the UK.
"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.
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.
[3] 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 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.
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 video begins inside Pink's house, where after a fight with her boyfriend, she is shown trying to stop him from packing up in preparation to leave.
He awakens, bruised and swollen in bed with Pink dressed in a nursing type of uniform, stitching up one of his wounds.
She dances suggestively for him, while he tries to grasp for the telephone at the bedside, only to have Pink smash his kneecaps with a golf club (a direct imitation of one of the scenes from the aforementioned movie Misery).
Pink is then shown in the kitchen preparing a salad, rapidly and angrily chopping the vegetables with a large knife.
He flies out of the chair, into a room filled with carnival themed objects such as horses used in a merry go round and various dolls.
He reaches the upstairs bathroom, and shuts the door just in time to block Pink charging psychotically down the hallway with the axe.
The final scene shows the paramedics taking the man out on a stretcher, and Pink lying on the floor with her leg broken and the axe beside her.
As a police officer prepares to arrest her, she gives her boyfriend one final look of desperation not to leave as he is wheeled out, before blowing a kiss to the camera with a comically psychotic look on her face.
Next, Pink slips on marbles, flips over the railings and lands on her back on the floor, as shown in the unedited version.
It is revealed later in the video that Carey plays the role of this man, who eventually gains P!nk's love.
The couple is shown on a date, then they play in the park and the video ends with P!nk and Carey, as a little man, walking away together.