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both parties is in the show notes of this episode. All right. So for all of the people that have

been requesting this episode when we do surveys asking for what artists people want to see episodes

on, this artist, Pink, ends up in a top spot most of the time. And I have to say, I was very excited to get to this episode. Pink is one of the most interesting and fun pop acts to emerge and has a career trajectory that's kind of unlike anybody else's and kind of outlasted people in a way that I don't think anybody who lived through her initial rise might have seen coming. And also, she swings from the ceiling and and we all have to love her for that. So without further ado, here is Pop Pantheon, Pink.

When talking music, people love to reference The Machine. Sometimes artists are seen as existing

as part of the machine, which means that they're in the system, part of the music business industrial complex, producing work and careers that are fine-tuned to the big

wig's liking. Other artists like to define themselves as raging against the machine, so to speak,

making sure to telegraph that they are not working at the behest of industry desires,

but rather iconoclasts, true artistes, who would never compromise their integrity for a buck. Usually, the truth about most musicians is a lot grayer. Pink, the singer and songwriter who emerged as a somewhat anonymous blue-eyed R&B product at the turn of the millennium, then quickly and effectively pivoted her image to a rock trick who gets in fights, didn't fit in with the main pop girls, and didn't give a fuck if she did, is maybe one of the canniest modern examples of an artist who tells us she is raging against the machine, often in no uncertain terms in her music, while still being in and very much benefiting from the well-established pop music business apparatus. Pink found her real you as the icon for fans who like their hits big, programmed, and radio-approved, but also like to stick their

tongues out and put up their middle fingers while singing them. And over her 20-plus-year career in the

spotlight, it seems she's had a rollicking good time consistently cranking out those exact type

of hits. Alicia Baxter I got my rock moves and I don't need you.

And guess what?

Her mother was a nurse and her father an insurance salesman. Notably, her parents were born in 1979, Doyle's Town, Pennsylvania, a small town just north of Philadelphia.

Her mother was a nurse and her father an insurance salesman.

Notably, her parents acrimoniously separated when Moore was young,

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