"'Cuz I Can" is a song written by Pink

Pink (singer)

Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....

, Max Martin

Max Martin

Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...

 and Lukasz Gottwald for Pink's fourth album, I'm Not Dead

I'm Not Dead

I'm Not Dead is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Pink. The album was released on April 4, 2006 in the United States....

, from which it was the seventh single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

. In the song, Pink says she plays by her own rules and boasts about her "bling", a contrast to the anti-consumerist content of "Stupid Girls

Stupid Girls

"Stupid Girls" is a song by American artist Pink, released as the first single from her 2006 album, I'm Not Dead. The song was written by Billy Mann, Pink, Niklas Olovson and Robin Mortensen Lynch and produced by Billy Mann and MachoPsycho.-Reception:...

", another track on the album. Referring to "'Cuz I Can", she called herself "a walking contradiction" and "a hypocrite sometimes." It was one of the five album tracks that leaked

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 onto the internet in July 2005. The single was sent to radio stations in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on October 4, 2007. It debuted at number 33 on the Australian ARIA

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 Digital Track Chart and peaked at number fourteen. The track debuted at number 39 on the New Zealand

New Zealand

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 Singles Chart, becoming the first single to chart on download

Music download

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 sales alone. It peaked at number twenty-nine. The music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 was first seen on Australian television on October 5, 2007 and is a live performance video from the I'm Not Dead Tour

I'm Not Dead Tour

The I'm Not Dead Tour was the third concert tour by American singer-songwriter Pink, in support of her fourth studio album I'm Not Dead. The tour reached Europe, North America. Australasia, and Africa and Asia.-About the tour:...

. The performance, which was the show opener for the tour, featured dancers dressed like monk

Monk

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s and with only underwear beneath their robes.

Charts

Chart (2007/2008)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...  Digital Track Chart	14
Australian Airplay Chart	2
New Zealand Airplay Chart	9
New Zealand RIANZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... Top 40	29
Russian Airplay Chart	46