| Celeb News: Pink paved way for Gaga, Perry and Rihanna - Advocate Oct 3rd 2012, 14:09 Quote:
Pink, whom Forbes magazine called the 27th most powerful celebrity in the world, has just finished dinner in the Malibu, Calif., home she shares with husband Carey Hart, an entrepreneur and motocross racer. Her daughter, Willow, who turned 15 months old on this day, is finally asleep upstairs, and the sweatpants-clad "So What" singer has settled into the sofa with her daily glass of wine. This, she says, is who she is: a smart woman who loves her family, is a great cook, and considers herself a decent human being. But one of the most powerful celebrities?
"I still look at that **** and think it's hilarious," she says. "I feel my power as a female and as a human being. I definitely do not feel my power as whatever Forbes was talking about."
The singer has changed the sound of modern pop music irrevocably. Music critic Ann Powers credits Pink's eclectic mix of rebellion, raw emotions, infectious beats, and humor with paving the path for many of today's most popular modern female artists, including Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. She's even been credited as inspiring a British multi-Grammy winner to become a performer, after a then-teenage Adele caught Pink in concert at London's famed Brixton Academy.
"That's so huge for me," she says of Adele. "I'm a fellow outcast, and for somebody to say that they were at my party once is like, Really? That's so cool, they were there. ****, she was 13 — how old does that make me? If I had to influence anybody, I'm so grateful it's her."
To date, Pink has had a dozen Top 10 hits in the U.S., and only Rihanna and Beyoncé have had more since 2000. In 2009, Billboard crowned Pink the top pop artist of the millennium's first decade, and after selling 40 million albums and 70 million singles globally she is indisputably one of the best-selling musical artists of all time.
She says that nothing really shocks her now ("I guess I have a lot of vulgar friends or something"), but a few years ago when News of the World published a fabricated story about her coming out as bisexual, she was indeed flummoxed. It wasn't that she was hiding her past relationships with women but that the she's so forthcoming it seemed unnecessary for News of the World to fake an interview with her for sensationalism.
"Honestly, I've never defined myself," Pink says. "I've never felt the need to. I still don't. It's just like how everyone's like, 'Well, what kind of music do you do?' And I'm like, 'I don't. I just do it.' And **** it, if you can't understand it, I'm a mystery bag."
"The kind of world I live in and lived in," she says of days gone by, "was this sort of very open one. I was like a club kid. I was a little candy raver, and I am the kind of person that sucks the marrow out of the bones of life. Those days were really crazy and lots of all-nighters. And with a bunch of other kids that were trying to find themselves and have a good time doing it and get out from under their parents — and there was a lot of ecstasy. And as far as I'm concerned, when you're on ecstasy there's no such thing as definable sexuality. There is just love."
The singer, whose swingy surf music–influenced mod rock title track "The Truth About Love" may be the first love song to mention the "smelling of armpits," says she still remembers all her girlfriends from her 20s.
"I loved my little girlfriends and we kissed and we had a great time and we held hands," she says. "When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was an honorary lesbian of Los Angeles. I wasn't gay, but all my girlfriends were. So no, it wasn't a big deal for me, but when [a tabloid] comes out and says, I just said I was bisexual, it's like what? That wasn't my truth, and I like truth. I like absolute truth."
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