Line #13 YMMV/Pink


1	----
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: P!nk, always a heart-on-sleeve type, doesn't really do "subtle." "Dear Mr. President," for example.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
4	** "Sober". One could call it one of the best pop songs of the past ten years and not be inaccurate. Her voice on that track is some of her best work.
5	** "Glitter in the Air." Especially her live performance at the 2010 Grammys.
6	** "Try", complete with an awesome music video where she performs an interpretive dance.
7	** Her cover of "White Rabbit", which was sadly only put on the Japanese edition of ''Beautiful Trauma''. Fortunately, some fans have put it up on Website/YouTube, in all its bombastic and trippy glory.
8	** "U + Ur Hand" is a classic with how well known it is, and for good reason.
9	%%** "What About Us"
10	* BrokenBase:
11	** There are those who hate her first album but love her rockier sound, and then there are those who only like her first album and hate the rest of them.
12	** There are, of course, a good number of fans who like all her albums. But you'll rarely hear her current fans say that ''Can't Take Me Home'' is their favorite. The fact that P!nk has openly criticized her first album and basically rebelled against everything it stood for with her second doesn't help matters.
13	** Her third album, ''Try This'', which is her lowest-selling album to date, with no major hits to its name. It's seen by some as a cool new direction, involving punk and soul elements, while others find it boring and say P!nk tries too hard to come off as edgy and a badass throughout the album.
14	** "Stupid Girls" is either a great girl power anthem encouraging young women to cultivate their minds, or else a backhanded piece of SlutShaming. Others feel that the song is fine on its own but the music video turns it into a BrokenAesop - where the [[RealWomenDontWearDresses girly stuff like makeup and dolls]] is associated with stupidity and the tomboyish stuff is associated with ambition.
15	* EvenBetterSequel: P!nk found the ''Can't Take Me Home'' era stifling, and proceeded to more than come into her own with ''M!ssundaztood.'' Definitely the album where she truly caught the public's attention.
16	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
17	** Many of her music videos have a comedic element, but "Stupid Girl" takes the cake.
18	** In "Raise Your Glass", Pink is seen in bed with a young nun, and is quickly reciting a prayer of thanks.
19	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In this case, Australians love P!nk, since her no-bullshit attitude really hit home with the Aussie audience. She is the most successful concert act in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}n history, having had 17 sold-out shows in Melbourne, a city of less than 4 million. It's no wonder that her "Funhouse" live album and [=DVDs=] were recorded in Australia.
20	* GrowingTheBeard: Hoo boy, 2001's ''M!ssundaztood'' grew a wizard-sized beard.
21	* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
22	** "Please Don't Leave Me" with the knowledge that she and Carey Hart did get back together.
23	** "So What" as well. The song was recorded when she and Carey were separated but he agreed to appear in the video anyway. As mentioned above, they eventually reconciled and called off their divorce.
24	** "Family Portrait" ended up becoming an anthem for children in broken homes, and encouraged many of them to speak to their parents about how they feel.
25	** Pink, while singing "Don't Let Me Get Me" in 2023, changed the line "Damn Britney Spears" to "Sweet Britney Spears" as a sign of solidarity to Britney, after increasing knowledge of how the latter's life was controlled by her dad for years of her adulthood.
26	* HilariousInHindsight: In the song "Don't Let Me Get Me", Pink mentions that she's tired of being compared to Music/BritneySpears. Two years after the song was released, Pink would go on to team up with Britney and Music/{{Beyonce}} for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7jkygJ_QNo Pepsi commercial]] as gladiator girls singing Music/{{Queen}}'s "We Will Rock You".
27	* HoYay: "Oh My God" is P!nk and openly bisexual {{Music/Peaches}} singing to each other about girl-on-girl bondage. It has lines like "Problem solved/it's dissolved/with the solvent known as spit/Lickity lick not so quick it's a/Slick ride/make my mink slide/'Cause we're all pink inside". Also in the video for "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)", which has P!nk in a triangle with a married couple while being extremely ambiguous about which of them she's actually attached to.
28	* MisaimedFandom: Many people criticize Pink’s song "Stupid Girls" for allegedly supporting the NotLikeOtherGirls phenomenon. The song is actually [[TakeThat criticizing women who mindlessly cave into society and men’s standards of how a woman should be]].
29	* NightmareFuel:
30	** The aforementioned bathtub scene in "Fuckin' Perfect." Made even worse by the fact that it looks like the girl is ''dead.''
31	** In "Just Like a Pill", P!nk's character lies around on various floors as she suffers an overdose and realizes almost too late that she should get some help.
32	** P!nk's mother in "Family Portrait" neglecting her child.
33	** The music video for "Please Don't Leave Me". An abused man tries to leave his wife, ignoring her pleads. He slips on marbles (likely set up by P!nk) and falls down a flight of stairs, setting up his fate for the video. Anytime he tries to leave, something horrible happens to him, preventing him from leaving. The last time he tries to leave, P!nk [[AxCrazy grabs an ax and charges after him with it]]. The whole video is a massive Creator/StephenKing homage to boot.
34	** The music video for "Sober" depicts P!nk in a mental asylum as she struggles with her sobriety. Seeing things that aren't there like various persons dressed in white and a woman screaming while covered up. The dark funeral scene. Pink's doppelgänger in the bathroom throwing up while Pink enters the bathroom and sits beside her doppelgänger. P!nk and her doppelganger fighting each other and making out at the same time in a darkened room.
35	* RefrainFromAssuming: "So What" is not called "Rockstar".
36	* SeasonalRot: It's generally agreed on, even by P!nk's fans, that her albums in recent years have become formulaic and less exciting, though there isn't a consensus on ''when'' this happened. For some, 2008's ''Funhouse'' is her last good album, for others, it's 2012's ''The Truth About Love.''
37	* SignatureSong: "Get the Party Started" was this for a while. Now it's either "Raise Your Glass", "So What", "What About Us", "Try", "Trouble", or, if you count her duet songs as well, her hit featuring Nate Ruess "Just Give Me a Reason" is probably her best known hit and easily the most streamed song on the internet.
38	* SoOkayItsAverage: ''Beautiful Trauma'' got a bit of this from both fans and critics.
39	* SpiritualSuccessor: "U + Ur Hand" is Music/DonnaSummer's "She Works Hard for the Money" after [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]], since, unlike the struggling waitress character in that song, P!nk pretty much conveys that she WILL kick your ass if you mess with her.
40	* {{Squick}}:
41	** The attempted bathtub suicide in "Fuckin' Perfect." The girl doesn't just cut herself, she carves the word "perfect" into her arm, with what look like half inch deep cuts.
42	** The milking scene in "Raise Your Glass".
43	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: After a concert in Glasgow, at least one newspaper the next day ran a story about outraged parents that had taken their young children to see her, somehow not knowing that her lyrics can be rather rude.

Context YMMV / Pink