Pink: Staying True Page #2

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My dogs walk all over me

the same way I walked all

over my mom.

It's good.

It's really reassuring.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

By her mid-teens, the

burgeoning rebel...

had gone into self-destruct

mode.

All that makes Pink unique is

that she's pretty raw and

uncheated for a pop girl.

She doesn't come schooled.

She didn't go to an academy.

She didn't have any special

privilege.

And I think that shows through

with something refreshingly

unvarnished about her.

She's got that kind of

background.

She's a bit of a drug kid,

isn't she? A bit of a club kid.

She was off her nut

in night clubs...

but because she's got that

kind of undercurrent...

she's a bit more street and

genuine and a bit more honest...

than a lot of her

contemporaries.

I think it got a bit too much

for her mom...

so her mom asked her to move in

with her dad, because she

couldn't handle it.

She ended up moving away.

REPORTER (O.S.):

Is it true that you had to go to

prison for a few days or nights?

It was all crap,

I was mostly innocent.

REPORTER (O.S.):

Well, what was it for?

Um, just dumb stuff, I mean,

I never got caught after

I was 18...

because I knew I'd have

a record, but--

Disorderly conduct,

shoplifting--

I mean, I did steal "Showgirls",

I'll admit to that one.

And then I took it back

'cause it sucked, but--

Just dumb stuff, you know?

I lived in a small town and

honestly the police had nothing

better to do...

than harass kids that they

didn't think fit their

picture...

of a wholesome,

young girl or boy.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

The gifts that would turn

Alecia Moore...

into an international star,

were apparent from a young age.

During her teenage years,

she wrote her own music.

I always wrote poetry

when I was in school.

I always wrote a lot of poetry.

Poetry was kind of like my

medicine...

but I didn't really know how

to write songs until probably

four-- three or four years ago.

And then I just started turning

all my poetry into songs

with music...

and it just kind of happened,

it was just-- I don't know.

Cut.

Of all the hugely successful

commercial pop girls over the

last 15 years...

Pink was probably more involved

in the songwriting process

than most...

both lyrically and melodically.

Not everyone can write stuff

that appeals internationally

like that, so she's very cool.

I rate her highly as a

songwriter...

the things that she pushes out

and what she portrays...

I see as very much from herself.

The records speak for

themselves. They're quite

autobiographical.

Everything she has to say goes

into the music and into

the lyrics.

I've seen her work in a

recording studio...

the things I saw her do,

and how involved she was...

not just in writing and

singing...

I was like, "Okay, cool,

she knows what she's doing."

She does write her own stuff,

and music as well...

she plays a lot of

instruments...

to match what she writes,

so that's a talent in itself.

A lot of the songs are deeply

emotional...

and you can really feel

the pain.

She has an idea that if some

things, some sound, some

groove...

some fill, is brokening around

there, and then she tries

to find it.

The word play comes across

as what she thinks about...

you can really hear it in her

work, which, for me,

is very coherent.

I'm inspired when I'm angry

or I'm inspired when

I'm really happy...

or confused,

or something like that.

It has to be an extreme emotion

for me to sit down and write

a song.

( GUITAR PLAYING )

NARRATOR (V.O.):

There was nothing mellow

about Pink's teenage years.

She was unable to find focus

until she made music her life.

Pink had a pretty tumultuous

late-90's...

it was touch and go

at one point...

whether there would be any

future, let alone a musical

future.

She was off her nut in a

night club and she was asked

to go and sing...

she just about got it together

to sing, but the DJ...

he said, "Can you come back,

but be straight when you come

back, stay off the drugs?"

And then she did that...

and that was where she kind

of realized that she was

gonna be successful.

Give credit to her for pulling

herself up by the bootstraps...

and getting herself together

sufficiently and not dying...

instead being re-born as a

terribly successful,

highly motivated woman...

who would take most of the

control of the future

direction of her career.

What do you think you'd be doing

if you weren't making music?

Hard to say, but, in reality,

I don't know that I'd be here.

REPORTER (O.S.):

Does music mean that much

to you, then?

Absolutely,

it's been my escape.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

By the time she was barely

in her teens...

Pink was heavily into the

Philadelphia club scene.

At the age of 14, she had her

first job, singing back-up

in a friend's rap group.

Pink was spotted by a record

company executive from MCA...

who asked her to audition

for a new R & B group called

Basic Instinct.

Pink got the job on the spot.

Pink started performing when she

was about 14, in local clubs...

where she lived in Philadelphia.

She started off as a member

of an R & B girl group...

and it looks as though that's

the direction she was

heading in.

They got sort of flown

to Atlanta to put a record

together...

but it never actually got

released.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

The group went nowhere...

nonetheless, an R & B trio

named Choice snapped Pink up as

one of three female leads.

They made a demo and were

immediately signed to LaFace...

by the producer and music

industry impresario LA Reed.

She got into LaFace's office

with Choice, who were

an R & B act.

LA Reed was definitely really

important to her career...

and he got her signed in the

first place, and made her

go solo...

it was either kind of she went

solo or it was over,

sort of thing...

so she took the choice

to go solo.

And when she was under the

tutelage of LA Reed...

that was the only example

of her as the pop puppet,

the manipulated girl.

And that was when it all started

with her first album.

I'm taking over the world.

That's it, I'm taking over the

world, painting the world Pink.

She felt empowered and decided

to leave and do her own thing...

and she's been doing it very

well ever since.

This with no looking back.

I was in a group, I was a lead

singer of a group...

two groups actually,

and that kind of didn't work.

So-- huh?

It did work, right?

Everything happens for a reason.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

By the age of 16,

Pink was transformed...

from a member of a

pre-packaged, all-girl

R & B trio...

into a solo hit machine.

She has never looked back.

America's friend

Is he

He is I

Is on the sparrow

And I know

I said all I know

He wasn't me

Yeah

Thank you.

( CROWD CHEERING )

NARRATOR (V.O.):

There are few more jaw-dropping

pop spectacles...

than a live Pink performance.

Combining sophisticated

aerobatics with slickly

choreographed dance routines...

the star has developed one

of the most spectacular shows

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