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It’s a big day for pop music with thenew single “ME!
“fromTaylor Swiftand the release ofPinks eighth album,Hurts 2B Human.
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You put your hands in me and you have no idea what you’re gonna get out.
That’s just how I do it.
I don’t believe in genres.
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I just believe in music and speaking your heart.
I usually go on tour and stop writing altogether but we just never stopped.
I just never stopped.
The collaborations just kind of all came together.
And then he said yes and I had to pinch myself.
Then I thought,this song needs Khalid, and then he said yes.
He said yes because his mom likes me.
I’ve crossed over.
My mom loves you!”
And I’m like, “F!
I mean thank you!”
He duets with you on the title track.
It fing hurts your heart.
If you choose to remain open-hearted, then it’s just going to hurt for a while.
Also, being a woman and Khalid being an African American male in America, it fing hurts.
I also think it’s a really hopeful song.
I love who he is.
He’s young and awesome and the sweetest person in the world.
I’m a person that’s engaged in the world.
I’m traveling throughout the world.
I’m around a lotta people all the time.
I’m on tour.
I am a mother.
I am thinking about all this stuff.
I’m the goofiest mother fer you’re ever going to meet in your life.
I laugh more than anybody I know because I like to take the piss out of everything.
you could’t help but feel that.
But there’s always humor and there’s always dancing.
The chorus to the song “Hustle” proclaims “Don’t f with me.”
Who fs with Pink?My 2-year-old for one.
[Laughs] And my 7-year-old, and she’s getting damn good at it!
I’m a total sucker.
You think I’m a badass but I’m all talk.
People screw me every day.
Also, my dad had cancer last year.
He was my first hero.
He was my God when I was a little girl.
He’s who taught me to fight for what I believe in.
He’s a big part of me.
It’s scary for me.
He’s older now and I have to take care of him.
It’s just that part of life and it’s inevitable.
The song “Happy” is so revealing.
You talk about body image and self-esteem.
I’ve always been a person who likes to shake hands with the elephant in the room.
I believe in therapy and I think music is therapy.
Your tours find you doing all these acrobatics.
There was this one thing I wanted to do where these drones fly you around on a magic carpet.
But then everyone was like, “Well, no, because hackers.
They could just, like, steal you!”
[Laughs] We talked about me being shot out of a cannon.
I didn’t really feel comfortable with that.
We’re scratching our heads but we’re going to keep going.
“For one night only, she lights herself on fire!”
