(Check out her performance of “Sober” at the 2009 VMAs for proof.)

She also set new standards as a live act, incorporating aerial dance and acrobatics into her extravagant stage shows. President” or “Who Knew”-who could be a punk one minute and an embracing, almost maternal comfort the next. While her attitude was central to her appeal-whether she was tilting towards rock on 2003’s Try This or tipping back to dance on 2006’s I’m Not Dead-what really set her apart was her versatility: It was hard to imagine another singer capable of tackling something as bitterly sarcastic as “I Got Money Now” (“You don’t have to like me anymore/I’ve got money now”) and then shifting, with total credibility, to “Dear Mr. That style paved the way for artists like Halsey, Kesha and just about every other major female pop star in her wake. A year later, she released M!ssundaztood, a leap forward both artistically and commercially, bridging the immediacy of club pop with songs that were confessional, genuine, frustrated and raw (“Family Portrait”, “Just Like a Pill”). After the demise of her first group, Choice, which was briefly signed to LaFace Records, P!nk released her 2000 debut, Can’t Take Me Home, co-writing more than half the album’s tracks. Pink” character in the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs: quippy, edgy, ready for trouble.

She started performing in clubs as a teenager, taking her name from Steve Buscemi’s 'Mr. As a girl, P!nk (born Alecia Beth Moore in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1979) loved Madonna and Janis Joplin, and tried her hand at opera, show tunes and punk rock. “She’s so pretty/That just ain’t me.” Even as she rose in fame, she retained the whiff of an outsider-someone too frank, too unapologetic, too real for the show: not an icon, but a human being. From the start, P!nk made it her business to be different: “Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears,” she sang on 2001’s “Don’t Let Me Get Me'.

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