Her new video , entitled "So What," is about her recent split from Corey Hart. It's not the typical Carrie Underwood-esque revenge song, nor the sad pity-me ballad, nor even the Beyonce-like, glitzy-I'm-so-hot-I-could-have-any-guy-I-want tune.
No, P!nk rejects all that crap and tells it like it is. First of all, the title implies "why do you care, anyway?"Amen.
Second, her response to the breakup basically coalesces to "Did you forget that I'm a fucking rock star? I have a great life. I didn't make my life revolve around him, so I'll be fine." This is the feature that makes me swoon. In essence she is saying that she was complete, successful, and bad-ass before him, and she be all those things after him. And she holds no lasting negativity towards him, nor him towards her, as evidenced by...
...Corey Hart was in the fucking video. Pink totally sent the message that she is above the tabloid-drama of celebrity break ups. The intention was clear "hey, he's okay with it too!" On an aside, it's always nice to see a guy who is totally comfortable being with a feminist-minded lady.
Props to P!nk and Corey for publicly defying the relationship-breakup paradigm that this country seems so desperately obsessed with.
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right on!
thank you for turning me on to that song!
Pink is great. She's got a lower profile than some of the other women (Britney, Jessica) she competed woth during the pop boom, but she's always been different and pretty feminist in her music.
I saw her talk to a crowd of high school students when I was in grade 7 or 8. She was my hero before then and she definitely was after that, too. She talked about some of her life experiences and some of the things that made her a feminist.
This song is fantastic, too.
God, I LOVE P!nk! I love how she's very mainstream, yet she doesn't tone down her message. I think she's at the point in her career where she can sing about whatever she wants. I have been a fan since 10th grade. (I'm a senior in college now.) I used to love "Don't Let Me Get Me." I absolutely adore "Conversations with my 13 year old Self." P!nk's songs give confidence to young girls. I cannot WAIT until her new album comes out.
P!nk was actually the first artist I saw in concert, back in eighth grade; it was her Mizunderstood tour, as a burgeoning bisexual feminist femme-y rocker chick, I can remember watching her and just going, "My God. That is exactly what I want to be."
P!nk has always been her own person and artist, ever since the days of that second CD. Rock on, girl, and keep telling it like it is.