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Although she was initially viewed as yet another face in the late-'90s crowd of teen pop acts, Pink quickly showed signs of becoming one of the rare artists to transcend and outgrow the label. Born Alecia Moore on September 8, 1979, in Doylestown, PA (near Philadelphia), Pink received her nickname as a child (it had nothing to do with her later shade of hair dye). She grew up in a musical family and by age 13 was a regular on the Philadelphia club scene, first as a dancer, then as a backing vocalist for the local hip-hop group Schools of Thought. At 14, she began writing her own songs; the same year, a local DJ at Club Fever began allowing her on-stage to sing a song every Friday. Pink was spotted one night by an executive for MCA, who asked her to audition for an R&B group called Basic Instinct; although she got the gig, the group imploded not long after. She was quickly recruited for a female R&B trio called Choice, which signed to L.A. Reid and Babyface's LaFace label on the strength of their demo; however, they too disbanded due to differences over musical direction. During Choice's brief studio time, producer Daryl Simmons asked Pink to write a bridge section for the song "Just to Be Loving You"; impressed with the results, Pink rediscovered her songwriting muse and an equally impressed L.A. Reid soon gave her a solo deal with LaFace.
Pink recorded her solo debut, Can't Take Me Home, with a variety of songwriting partners and dance-pop and R&B producers. Released in 2000, the album was a double-platinum hit; it spun off three Top Ten singles in "There U Go," "Most Girls," and "You Make Me Sick." She toured that summer as the opening act for *N Sync, but soon found herself tired of being pigeonholed as strictly a teen act, despite her sassy, forthright persona. As she set about working on her follow-up album, Pink took part in the remake of Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" featured on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, which also featured powerhouse divas Christina Aguilera, Mya, and Lil' Kim. The song was a massive hit, topping the charts in both the U.S. and U.K. Toward the end of the year, Pink released her next single, "Get the Party Started"; it became her biggest, most inescapable hit to date, climbing into the Top Five. Her accompanying sophomore album, M!ssundaztood, quickly went double platinum; it boasted a more personal voice and a more eclectic sound, plus heavy contributions from ex-4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry, who helped bring some more rock muscle to Pink's sound (as did guest appearances by Steven Tyler and Richie Sambora). M!ssundaztood attracted positive critical notices as well, and its second single, "Don't Let Me Get Me," became another fast-rising Top Ten hit. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Written by Steve Huey

ALBUMS

God is a DJ 2004
try this 2003
Missundaztood 2001
Can't take me home 2000

I Love her Voice and how she carries herself with her unique and experimental fashion. she's also a very gud dancer and always makes a very interesting Music Videos. so i hope some people here would also share the same likeness to her like me.

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Andrlynn
Pink kicks KFC

Pop star Pink is spearheading a new campaign against KFC.

The outspoken singer has launched a global petition drive - called 'Kick the [KFC] Bucket' - for animal rights group PETA, which claims the fast-food chain abuses chickens.

She says on her website, PinksPage.com: "PETA is simply asking KFC to modernise its methods and stop boiling birds alive in the de-feathering tank and stop pumping them so full of growth drugs that they cripple under their own weight.'

Pink isn't the first star to speak out against Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Former 'Baywatch' babe Pamela Anderson recently campaigned to get a statue of the chain's founder Colonel Sanders removed from Kentucky.

The furious actress penned a letter to the governor of the state, asking the monument be taken down.

She wrote: "The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky State Capitol.

"The chickens are bred and drugged so quickly that many become crippled under their own weight.'

The Beastie Boys and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons have also slammed KFC over its treatment of chickens.

Source: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Pin...20KFC-9436.html
Andrlynn
"I'm a walking contradiction" says pink

Is my hair OK?" Pink asks.

The question's only half-serious: Pink's backstage at "TRL" and is about to appear live on national television, so obviously she wants to look her best. And she does — her bleached-out blond strands are swept up, just enough to reveal a patch of shocking hot pink in the back.

But since the singer is promoting not just her "Stupid Girls" single but also the idea behind the song — that a woman's appearance shouldn't be the main thing on her mind — she's laughing at the irony. If she practiced what she's preaching, she wouldn't be asking the question in the first place.

As she explained to Matt Lauer on "Dateline" later in the week, "It's just this force-fed image: [You're supposed to be a] size zero, have a certain kind of bag, not contribute anything to the world, and dumb yourself down to be cute because it makes you less challenging as a female."

That's a strikingly candid observation coming from a pop star, but this unusually self-aware pop star is all too conscious of the irony inherent in delivering it via a media blitz — with appearances on "TRL," "Dateline," "Oprah," "Live With Regis & Kelly" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in the space of one week. She's got to be camera-ready to deliver her message — even if that message is that the magic isn't in the makeup.

So by the time she stomps onstage at New York's Crobar for a surprise show later that night — and stomp she does, accompanied by two high-stepping backup dancers in combat boots — Pink is essentially at war with herself. Her hair now in curls, she purposely tweaks the anti-consumerism agenda of "Stupid Girls" by wearing diamond studs on her teeth and boasting about her bling during "Cuz I Can" ("My ice is making me freeze!"). At the same time, she's bouncing around in a bright orange dress, in support of April being Prevention of Animal Cruelty month (the wearing of orange being a sign of solidarity with the ASPCA), a connection she reinforces mid-set by saying "Do it for the doggies!" And any contradictions inherent in her many messages are explained away with the song's ready-made excuse: "I don't play your rules, I make my own/ Tonight, I'll do what I want/ Cuz I can."

"I'm a walking contradiction," she acknowledges. "I'm a hypocrite sometimes."

"Stupid Girls" — and the discussion around it — has gotten Pink back on point and back on our radar, with I'm Not Dead scoring her highest-ever chart opening at #6. Some might consider that more fizzle than fire, just as they considered 2003's Try This, her follow-up to Missundaztood, a flop because it sold 700,000 copies, according to SoundScan, to Missundaztood's 5.2 million. But even Missundaztood didn't have a spectacular opening week, debuting at #8. And as Pink told "Dateline" — to Lauer's considerable surprise — she wishes Missundaztood hadn't been such a big success: "Where do you go from that? Anything you do after, that's a failure."

Conversely, Pink puts a positive spin on the comparative failure of Try This, which was beset by a perfect storm of factors that were largely separate from the music on the disc: Poor single choices (like promoting the flimsy "God Is a DJ" over the more substantial "Save My Life" or "Last to Know"), bad marketing and the collapse of her label, Arista Records. This latter event had a significant effect, as it resulted in the dismissal of the label's CEO and longtime Pink champion L.A. Reid (who appears in the "Don't Let Me Get Me" song and video; he soon resurfaced as chairman of Island Def Jam). While all of those factors contributed to the album's middling commercial performance, Pink considers it a success for other reasons. "I wanted respect from the critics and I got it," she says. "I got my Grammy" — Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 2003 for "Trouble."

Try This was also recorded quickly: Most of the album was written and produced with Rancid guitarist Tim Armstrong in the studio on his tour bus while he was on the road with his (since disbanded) side project, the Transplants. Perhaps as a result, for the new album, Pink chose to work with a slew of collaborators — including Butch Walker (Avril Lavigne), Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Fiona Apple) and Max Martin (Kelly Clarkson, 'NSYNC) — and took her time, spending over a year writing songs that she felt said something. "At first, I thought I had nothing important to say," Pink recalls. "And then the record company was like, 'All right, we need to wrap it up,' and I was like, 'Two more subjects! Two more subjects!' " Pink says. "It was the first time that I've really taken my time with a record and said, 'Screw the deadline.' "

On one of these Not Dead songs, "U and Ur Hand," Pink declares "I'm not here for your entertainment" — it's a kiss-off to a guy who's trying to pick her up, but it might as well be the motto for the album's more substantial subject matter. The songs are personal ("Conversations With My 13-Year-Old Self"), political ("Dear Mr. President") and, of course, both ("Stupid Girls").

"So you might have seen this video ..." Pink says onstage at Crobar, as she sits with her legs crossed, flipping through a fashion magazine, while two mini-skirted backup dancers help re-enact the non-celebrity-spoof portion of the "Stupid Girls" video. A fan gasps when she catches Pink's green toothbrush, thrown into the crowd after the singer fakes using it to force a bulimic episode. (After the video was released, the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals praised the clip for "highlighting the culture's relentless and unrealistic pursuit of thinness." Even "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling weighed in, calling it the "antidote anthem" to our overly thin-fixated culture.)

But for all the song's impact, it very nearly wasn't the album's first single: Pink's team was considering leading with the Max Martin track "U and Ur Hand" — a fan favorite well in advance of the album's release, thanks to whomever leaked the song onto the Internet. Pink didn't even have to include the song in her set at Crobar because the fans started singing it spontaneously — she just held the mic over the crowd.

It's funny, that damn Internet," Pink says. "People are already singing along when the album ain't even out yet. You don't even have to put a record out — just record music and the world will hear it."

But even if "Stupid Girls" had leaked, it almost definitely wouldn't have had the same impact without the video, a concept Pink envisioned as she was writing the song. The video inspired Oprah Winfrey to make the song the whole theme of her April 10 show and invite guests to prove Pink's point, such as authors Naomi Wolf ("The Beauty Myth," "Misconceptions") and Ariel Levy ("Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture," which Pink calls "an awesome book"). "I wanted us to do this show to start paying attention to what is happening to us and what are the role models we are projecting around this world," Winfrey says on the show. "It's the marginalization of women."

What gives Oprah's "Stupid Girls" show its punch is the presence of teenage girls in the audience — who admit they deliberately act dumb around boys and imitate the celebrities Pink spoofs in the song's video. Pink then breaks it down for them: "If you are going to be the future rock stars or whatever you want to be, then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else — because you'll never get to you." The girls nod and smile, but it's anyone's guess whether the message is sinking in. Pink's not going to give up that easily, though — her message has become a mission.

"Just because I put a ring on my finger and got married, everyone thinks I'm this happy, steady, adjusted person who has no more opinions," she explains. "Or I have money and I'm a pop star, so I shouldn't contribute to the world. People would be a lot more comfortable if I sat down and shut up, but that's never going to happen."

Fair warning for the White House, the occupants of which evidently haven't yet heard "Dear Mr. President." The song, in letter form to the president, addresses homelessness, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his rumored past substance abuse, and concludes by asking, "How do you sleep at night?/ How do you walk with head held high?"

"I just got invited to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner," Pink crows. "We'll see how it goes!"

While Pink says it's "narcissistic" to think that the president would listen to what she has to say, she certainly won't be shy if the opportunity presents itself.

And you know she'll look just right for the part.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheyd...053.html#cutid1
maea_maie
Pink Was Reportedly Once Into Heroin

03/27/2006 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
LAUNCH Radio Networks

Pink reportedly used heroin when she was younger. The 26-year-old singer stays clear of drugs now, but told Britain's Sun tabloid that she experimented with heroin as a child and lost three friends to overdoses. Pink said, "Heroin is a horrible thing. I've seen first hand what it can do to people and it's not pretty. I was never that much into it to need treatment." She added, "But if you're talking about drugs -- you name it, I took it." Pink said she stopped using heroin on Thanksgiving Day 1995 and never touched it again, saying, "For me drugs were just a distraction on the way to my ultimate goal, which is what I'm doing today."


Pink, who grew up as Alecia Moore in Pennsylvania, said she became hooked on drugs at 13.


Pink will release her fourth studio album, I'm Not Dead, on April 4. The set, which features the single "Stupid Girls," follows 2003's Try This.

tipsypixel
i really liked her stupid girl mv.. mmm... very much how she made fun of the girls... especially the part where she hit the woman and the man... all she had to say was oh my gosh.. then started talking on the phone again hahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ZawgUyjd4...03BADF&index=86
icecubex
i am luvin pink totally at the mo! her songs r well mint. i really lyk her new song u n ur hand!
Ranger
i like her second album the best... i think i know the album by heart... the first album was not bad too... 'you make me sick' is my all time favourite song by pink:D

chiyuffie
Pink's great. She has her own style and she's not afraid to run with it. She'll write what's on her mind and she's perform and say whatever she pleases. She's an interesting view of "real." Her lifestyle is even more interesting in that she lets her husband date other women while she's on tour...

Anyways, her music is fantastic. The agressive and soft songs make her very original.
Jeffre yip(HK)
her songs r awesome especially u+ ur hand.It rocks!!!!!!!!!!
Also she's doing her music in her own way and tat makes her special.
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i used to like PINK.
her voice is great and i like most of her songs.
i also like her fashion. unique and she knows how to carry herself.
i also admire how expressive she is.

er..i heard she's a lesbian.
darn. i just laughed at it.
mochi_icecream
I love Pink! She's not afraid to express herself. In the early 90's she was pushed into doing a lot of mainstream pop music but she fought for self expression and convinced her label to take a chance on a more edgey rock sound, something that represents who she is. She's done an awesome job as an artist. She's one brave girl for not letting her record label turn her into another Brittney Spears. Pink has a unique voice and I actually like her music. She's such a rebel! One of my favorite songs from her is "U and Your Hand". It's hilarious! You go girl!
gary 1991
PROFILE:

Date of Birth:
8 September 1979, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name:
Alecia Beth Moore

Height:
5' 4" (1.63 m).


Melody chasidy
lol i love her songs they have meanings lol ima huge fan of Pink lol best wishes to her! go P!NK

lol i love P!NK! lol she rites her own songs lol plus her songs actualy have meaning she speaks her mind that wat makes her her n that wat makes alot of ppl like her lol theirs tons of things i can say on why i like Pink but that is like the main reasons lol
gary 1991
I have a picture of her in an album
that I'm doing.... she is brilliant....

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....I also have all their videos and I never tired of seeing them

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gary 1991
every time you step in here I can not help but leave a
matter to "p! nk" is that it is large in the world of
music and also his style strikes me....



Notou
Lately i came across some of her song and i actually found them very emotional. Like nobody knows, family portrait, and dear mr president, they all have the deep and intimate feelings in the song that really sticks out and hit the audience. Her voice is very unique and identifiable and cannot be mimic by others. The song dear mr. president is stuck in my hand right now because its so right timing its just got me thinking.


peaceXDD
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