14 DAY TRIAL // Pink has a new album coming out this year but, aside from that, she's got several other projects on her plate, including a new deal with Cover Girl and an upcoming VMA performance. To promote all that, she sat down for an interview with Billboard.
Known for her rebelliousness and outspokenness, Pink was never afraid or shy to call a spade a spade, which is precisely what she does in this interview as well.
She talks about the music industry and how it's changed since the day she got her start in it, she talks about today's values and how she chooses to remain humble even though she seems to be the only one doing so.
Pink also says that, in the industry, you as an artist are never done paying your dues, something she's perfectly OK with.
“I'll have 18-, 19-year-old artists who just got signed who’ll come to me asking for advice and I don’t know what to tell people anymore – it’s just so different now. There’s no record company budgets or big pop tours or million-dollar videos. People have to just get creative and figure it out,” Pink says of how the industry has changed.
Even so, she remains grounded. She is one of the biggest pop stars of the moment, with a fanbase counting millions and several major accomplishments under her belt, but Pink never takes herself too seriously.
This, it would seem, is her secret to staying at the top of her game.
“The joke was my first tour opening for ‘N Sync and my 10th tour was opening for Justin [Timberlake]. You have to be humble. I would go and do sold-out arena shows back to back all over Germany, then come and do 800-capacity clubs in Washington, D.C. You don’t ever get done paying your dues,” she says.
Pink's new album, “The Truth About Love,” is inspired by her own experience, as everything else she's written, she reveals. That doesn't mean that she and husband Carey Hart are having problems – just that nothing is perfect in this world, their relationship included.
As for how she'd describe the album, we'll just let Pink do all the talking.
“I felt like I was in this videogame and I collected all the gold coins and talismans you could collect – I had to either move to the next level or quit. There’s this whole techno takeover going on right now that just does my head in, and I knew I didn’t want to do that. I’d rather dance around and sing goofy songs,” she says.
Here is her full interview with Billboard.