Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Raise Your Glass Edition Part 1
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🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Alecia Moore was so fearless, they put an exclamation point in her name. Pink—a.k.a. P!nk—was full of bravado from the moment she broke at the turn of the millennium, singing a frothy style of teen pop&B. She was promoted as ethnically ambiguous and sold to white and Black audiences as a sassy Total Request Live starlet. She even joined an all-star remake of “Lady Marmalade.”
But Pink felt misrepresented, even Missundaztood—so she recorded an album by that name, fusing rock guitar, dance beats and filter-free lyrics. She called out shiftless boyfriends, other pop stars, even the president of her record label in the lyrics of her hits, becoming the pop fan’s rock star.
Join Chris Molanphy as he explains how Pink defined her own genre fusing punk attitude and soaring melodies into 21st-century self-empowerment music. She made herself into a rock star, simply by calling herself one. Who knew?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.7 | Hey there, hit parade listeners. |
| 0:06.3 | What you're about to hear is part one of this episode. |
| 0:10.4 | Part two will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month. |
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| 0:31.5 | every hit parade episode in full the day it arrives. Plus, hit Parade The Bridge, our bonus episodes, with guest |
| 0:40.0 | interviews, deeper dives on our episode topics, and pop chart trivia. Once again, to join, |
| 0:46.8 | that's slate.com slash hit parade plus. Thanks. And now, please enjoy part one of this Hit Parade episode. |
| 1:07.3 | Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from coast to coast. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series on today's show. |
| 1:24.0 | 21 years ago, in March of 2002, the latest single by a Platinum recording artist was marching into the top 40 on Billboard's Hot 100. |
| 1:37.0 | Only this song didn't much sound like the tracks that had made her a hitmaker. |
| 1:43.3 | It did have a thumping, syncopated beat, making the song |
| 1:48.0 | radio-friendly at the peak of glossy hip-hop and millennial teen pop. But the primary instrument |
| 1:55.7 | on the track was rock guitar, and the singer sounded a whole lot like a rocker herself. |
| 2:07.2 | Alicia Moore, the singer, who called herself, was pulling off a brazen act of music business rebellion. |
| 2:21.3 | She was abandoning the sound that had made her name and scoring a big hit anyway. |
| 2:28.4 | Pink had to fight her own record company president to do this. |
| 2:33.1 | How could you tell? She called him out right in the lyrics of the |
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