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Punky Pink, who plays The Q Saturday, is an unlikely pop star who made it to the top through talent, not twerking (Poll: Who's your favorite female star?)
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Pink doesn't twerk. She doesn't shoot whipped cream from her bra. Nor does she diss other female singers. She writes many of her own songs, and isn't afraid to get personal. She sells her powerhouse voice, not her body. She's tomboy on heels, and encourages female fans to be tough, too. She seems more concerned with her actual music than outrageous publicity stunts. Her style is raw, punky and catchy – but never syrupy. She can sing R&B and rock and hip-hip and grunge and even get a little jazzy. Success wasn't handed to her - she worked her way up from small Philly clubs were she began singing at 14 to the arena she plays today.
In other words, Pink is an unlikely pop star in this prefab, overly-sexed, glossy era.
Yet, refusal to play by the female pop star rules has worked pretty well. The 34-year-old singer, born in Doylestown, Pa., has become one of the most successful artists in the world of any gender, selling more than 110 million records worldwide as of 2012. She's earned three Grammys and six MTV Video Awards. She's been deemed one of the Top 10 Greatest Women in Music by VH1. Her net worth is estimated at more than $70 million. She has 20 million Twitter followers to her frequent posts about her tour, issues of the day, and her two-year-old daughter; she has 26 million Facebook followers and 3.8 million Youtube subscribers. She has had 19 Top Twenty hits. Her 2009 – 2010 tour sold more than 3 million tickets.
Pink brings her current tour, The Truth About Love, to The Q this Saturday.
The road show is in support of her 2012 album of the same name, which has already sold nearly 2 million copies. It finds the socially conscious singer who has long supported PETA and various feminist and LGBT causes delving even deeper into issues of the day – in about the catchiest way possible. Written after a temporary separation from her husband, motorcross racer Carey Hart, and after the birth of her daughter, Willow, it also deals with the strains of modern and marital love. Check the raw honesty of the irresistibly catchy single "True Love": ''At the same time I wanna hug you/I wanna wrap my hands around your neck."
Pink has grown up, but she hasn't stopped rocking – or topping the charts or filling arenas. And no twerking necessary.
http://www.cleveland.com/music/index...the_q_sat.html
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nnnn...........So much shade!
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Originally posted by pinktennisfreak
Punky Pink, who plays The Q Saturday, is an unlikely pop star who made it to the top through talent, not twerking (Poll: Who's your favorite female star?)
nnnn...........So much shade!
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I spotted dat one lie though she doesn't diss other pop girls
hmmm let's think well she hasn't lately i guess
But not Miley shade all over the review
And Katy and Rihanna voice shade :x
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Pink awes Cleveland crowd of 17,000 at The Q with stellar singing, dancing, piano playing and flying - yes, flying (review and slideshow)
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Cleveland, Ohio - The last time I saw a spinning metal ball suspended in the air with people inside it at The Q, it was for the circus. Not a rock show.
Ditto for acrobats, people hanging from the ceiling, an emcee in a topcoat and someone flying across the room – though that time it was from a canyon.
Yet, all of these tricks – and then some - were part of punky popstar Pink's repertoire at her nearly sold-out show in front of 17,000 mostly pink clad and overwhelmingly female fans at The Q Saturday night.
But lest you think Pink, who is touring in support of her sixth album, "The Truth About Love," uses these accoutrements as a crutch, think again. Pink's not trying to distract from a weak voice or lack of talent. She's a knock-out entertainer and singer -- a new millennium popstar with the pipes and a 17-song and 100-minute set to back up the flash.
After a campy introduction from a sequined emcee who told fans tonight would be all about exploring the many naughty and nice facets of love, Pink raised the curtain with a rocking "Raise Your Glass." She and her band – guitar, bass and drums – were joined on her 2010 hit by a crew of leather-and-lace clad male and female dancers, who would back her throughout the night. They raised the bar on this song though, with three topless male acrobats/dancers suspended upside down from giant hearts about 35 feet off the ground. The middle one held Pink over the stage as she sang and swung. This woman knows how to make an entrance – it would only be topped Saturday by her spectacular exit. But more on that later.
"Raise Your Glass" segued into a raunchy "Walk of Shame," from the "Truth About Love," which had an edgier guitar sound live and featured a coterie of female dancers in various stages of dress strutting proudly behind Pink.
The night was heavy with tracks from last year's "The Truth About Love," including a tender duet with Nate Ruess on the video screen for "Just Give Me A Reason"; a steamy take on the ballad "Try," on which the lite-S&M choreography owed much to "Madonna" ; and an anthemic "Are We All We Are," which found Pink bouncing onto the high-rise speakers on the side of the stage to get closer to her fans.
Pink was more than gracious all night to the devotees in the audience, accepting everything from a piñata shaped like her head to straws shaped into the names of her husband, two-year-old-daughter and self. She even thanked Cleveland for giving her daughter, Willow, her first sighting of snow. The crowd roared.
Proving again her talent runs deep, Pink pared things down for an acoustic version of her 2006 song "Who Knew," which not only featured a costume change into a gauzy gown from the lace and glitter she wore most of the night – the song also featured Pink on piano, an instrument she learned in the last year. The simplified version shone a spotlight on her powerhouse vocals and lovely piano playing. A cleaned-up (for the "little ears in the house") acoustic take on "(Expletive) Perfect" did the same.
The only slightly off note of the night was a cover of Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game." Pink's vocals were spot on, but the bombastic full band treatment undercut the original's dark moodiness.
Pink pleased the crowd with most of her earlier hits, too, with the exception of perhaps her biggest hit, 2001's "Let's Get the Party Started." But a punchy, guitar-heavy "Trouble," a torchy "Sober" and a R&B-flavored "U + Ur Hand" impressed.
The popstar closed the night with a sassy strut through "**** Like You," which featured her male dancers dropping trou on the punk party anthem, and a bouncy "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)." She was joined on these, as throughout the night, by her acrobatic make and female dancers mixing up moves that would be equally at home on the dance floor or Cirque du Soleil.
But nothing they did could top Pink's exit: she came back out for a soaring encore of 2005's sassy "So What." And I do mean soaring. Tethered to two giant chords with a at her waist, Pink literally flew through The Q for the duration of the song, from end to end and corner to corner almost as high as the Cavs scoreboard in the middle.
As the songs says, she's still rock star as she's got her rock moves – and them some.
Opener The Kin, two Aussie brothers and a drummer named Shakerleg who banged his drums with his hands, won over the huge crowd with their emo folk rock songs and earnest attitude (they practically begged fans to follow them on Twitter, buy their CD and come meet them after the show). The largely female crowd seemed especially impressed with the elegiac acoustic number "Mary," dedicated to Pink and all of the mothers in the crowd, and the anthemic "America," about their adopted homeland. The only thing that got louder cheers than "Mary" was when they closed by asking "Who's ready to see Pink?"
http://www.cleveland.com/music/index...veland_cr.html
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Pink a powerhouse at ACC
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TORONTO - After putting on one of the best shows of the year at the Air Canada Centre back in mid-March, the pop powerhouse returned to the hockey hangar Saturday to launch a two-night stand, turning in yet another powerful performance. The second concert is Monday night.
Emerging from beneath a trap door on her enormous stage attached to bungee cords for the show opener, Raise Your Glass, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter showed off her gymnast skills early and often to 16,500 fans.
“Toronto!” said Pink, who was backed by a seven piece band and as many dancers. “How many of you guys are back for a second time? How much fun are we going to have tonight?”
Turns out a lot.
The girl moves so fast it’s hard to get an in-focus picture of her on your cell phone.
Meanwhile, sexy costume changes, trapeze tricks, the ability to play both piano and drums, and an ovation worthy abdominal six pack aside, Pink continued to awe by simply opening her mouth and belting out songs like old fave Just Like A Pill.
Still, it was hard to ignore her athleticism during the first of many show highlights on Try as she began on a rotating trapeze like sphere before coming down to the stage to perform the choreography from the song’s video with a hunky male dancer.
That was followed by an equally evocative dance number with three male dancers during the follow-up song, a stirring cover of Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game.
Pink also has a good sense of humor as she connected with fans, many bearing gifts of stuffed animals, flowers and even candy.
“That sign says ‘Please let me touch your hair?,’” said the singer, before obediently lying down at the front of the stage and letting her short blond hairdo get messed up by strange hands.
Then another male fan with a placard wanted something more intimate.
“‘Okay wife says I can’t marry you but I can get a kiss from you,’” Pink said as she read his sign. “Where’s wifey? Is she watching?” said the pop star before planing a smooch.
When she wasn’t charming the crowd with her banter, she was wowing them with her vocals on songs like Just Give Me A Reason, a duet with Fun’s Nate Ruess who appeared on video, Sober, and a beautiful acoustic version of Who Knew featuring Pink and her guitarist on her heart-shaped catwalk.
The real high wire act came during the encore as Pink strapped herself into wires that had her flying all around the ACC’s cavernous space while she effortlessly sang So What.
Unlike her March show, however, she didn’t return for a second encore and the beautifully rendered Glitter In The Air, and the song Family Portrait were also missing from the acoustic portion of the show.
Otherwise, Sweden garage punk act The Hives were highly entertaining during their 40 minute opening set including hits like Hate To Say I Told You So as animated and funny frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist charmed the crowd into submission with his endless stage talk: “I love you! Do you love me?!”
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/30...tre-in-toronto
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Star Tribune stanning hard and THE SHADE at the end
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The year is only one week old but we’ve already witnessed what could easily be the best concert of 2014 — Pink at Target Center on Tuesday.
Her March show at Xcel Energy Center was unquestionably the top concert of 2013. And Tuesday’s was essentially a repeat performance. Except it was better. Much better.
With nearly 12 months of her Truth About Love Tour behind her, Pink seemed more confident, comfortable and playful — a better dancer (never her forte), a better all-around performer and an unstoppable joyous presence even if she was snarling in song about bruised relationships.
The takeaway last year was that Pink was the biggest daredevil and most accomplished athlete in pop music. And that’s still true.
She entered Tuesday doing bungee-cord bouncing three stories in the air. Later she did the splits while rotating over the stage and singing at the same time, she somersaulted from one end of the arena to the other (in a harness and sequined 5-inch high heels) while belting the rocker “So What.” And, of course, she reprised her spinning gyroscope cage during which she hung on without a safety belt while singing “Sober.” Never has sober been so dizzying.
Actually, the scariest moment came when Pink sat down at the piano. She admitted that she hadn’t touched a keyboard in two weeks and she wasn’t actually experienced to begin with. She seemed so preoccupied with her playing on “The Great Escape” that her vocals weren’t focused. But at least there was no question that she was singing live, and on other numbers she showcased her potent pop voice.
During the acrobatic numbers, it was debatable whether Pink was lip-syncing, but her performances were so jaw-droppingly did-she-really-do-that, who cared?
That she dropped three numbers from last year’s set including her breakthrough gymnastics bit — the baptismal bath in “Glitter in the Air” that she famously did at the 2010 Grammys — didn’t matter, either.
Pink also wisely ditched the hokey gambit of her concert being a pseudo-TV game show. Without that distraction, the 34-year-old Philadelphian got to interact with the 16,000 fans more often. She signed autographs in mid-song, accepted gifts for her 2-year-old daughter (and asked whether the quilt was homemade) and even accommodated a request for a body signature to be turned into a tattoo.
Pink seemed so real, so vulnerable yet resilient, so much a champion for underdogs — and so extraordinary as a concert performer that, whatever happens the rest of the year, Madonna, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift don’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with her.
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