Full Name:
Alecia Moore
Nicknames:
Pink, PINK (it had nothing to do with her later shade of hair dye)
Date of Birth:
September 8, 1979
Height: 5'3"
Place of Birth:
Pennsylvania （美国宾夕法尼亚州）
Hair Color:
Flamingo Pink （像火烈鸟那样的粉红色）
Musical Influences:
Madonna, Whitney
Houston, Billy Joel,
her father
She grew up in a musical family. At age 14 she began writing and singing some of her own songs in clubs in Philadelphia. Her first album Can't Take Me Home, released in 2000, featured the top ten hit “There You Go.” She followed that with the album Missundaztood(2001) and had even greater success with the hit songs “Don't Let Me Get Me” and “Get This Party Started” which became her biggest, most inescapable1 hit to date.
Pink's facial expressions and different clothing styles have helped make her music videos as popular as her records. Pink's next album Try This, released in 2003, concentrated even more on rock. She wed motocross racer Carey Hart in January, 2006. Her fourth album, I'm Not Dead, appeared that April; its first single, “Stupid Girls,” quickly became a hit.
Is Pink A Hater?
The singer disses2 everyone from Paris Hilton to Lindsay Lohan in her video for “Stupid Girls.” Is she really ready to throw down3?
She Trashes Hollywood...
“I wasn't thinking about ever writing a song like that.” Pink said, “But I and a lot of my friends were all sort of sick from celebrity culture and just the way girls are being respected. I felt like, well, if no one else is going to say it publicly—I've never been afraid to speak my mind!”
...But It's All For Fun!
“The video is just one big laugh,” explains Pink. “It was so much fun to do, and we needed a good laugh so we can stop taking ourselves so seriously. It's copying how foolish all of it is, but it's funny!”
It's OK to Be Different
“I'm an option4 girl. There's a lot of us out there5 that don't look up to that [Hollywood ideal], and we're not being represented,”says Pink. She likes being an alternative to the typical pop princess. “I'm not any better, I'm not any worse. I'm just different. If that's what you want to be and that's what you look up to, that's great, but if there's people out there who don't, then they need an example too.”
I've grown up!
“My 25th year was such a huge year for me. Almost overnight, it was like, ‘Omigod6 —look how much there is to do in this world.’ Sometimes it just happens that way, you know? I started paying less attention to my own drama7 and more to the world around me. I need to do the best I can, just really live, wake up, learn and be better.”
她生长于音乐世家，14岁就开始在费城的俱乐部里演唱一些自己创作的歌曲。她于2000年推出首张专辑《不能带我回家》，其中单曲《你看吧》跻身排行榜前10名。紧接着2001年她又发行专辑《误会大了》，当中的两首热门单曲《抢救完美大作战》和《派对开始了》获得更大成功，成为她迄今为止最流行、最不可不听的单曲。
红粉佳人的面部表情及与众不同的衣着风格使她的音乐录影带与专辑一样大受欢迎。2003年，红粉佳人推出第三张更偏向于摇滚风格的专辑《给我试试看》。2006年1月她与摩托车赛车手凯里·哈特喜结良缘。同年4月她的第四张唱片《女力无敌》发行，其第一首单曲《蠢女孩》很快成为热门。
红粉佳人谁都看不惯？
在《蠢女孩》的音乐录影带中，这位歌手痛贬他人，从帕丽斯·希尔顿到林赛·罗翰，一个都不放过。她真的这么好斗吗？
她没把好莱坞放在眼里
“我根本没想过会写那样一首歌，“红粉佳人说，”但是我以及我的许多朋友对名人文化以及他们包装女孩们的方式多少都有点看不惯。我觉得，如果没人敢公开表达这个意见，那么——我是不怕说出自己想法的！”
……那些只为逗乐子！
“录影带只是搞笑而已，”红粉佳人解释道，"那样做很有趣，我们需要放声大笑，才不至于把自己搞得紧张兮兮。它真实再现了这些怪现状的愚蠢之处，但确实很好玩！"
与人不同？没问题！
“我是个另类的女孩。我们很多人并不向往那些[所谓的好莱坞梦想]，它并不代表我们。”红粉佳人说。她很愿意成为典型的流行公主之外的另一个选择。“我不比别人好也不比别人差，我只是与别人不同罢了。如果你就想那样（追随好莱坞理想），如果你向往那样，那很好；但假如有人不愿意那样，那他们也需要有个榜样。”
我长大了！
“我25岁那年是个大丰收年。几乎一夜之间，就像是，‘上帝啊，看看这世上有多少事要做！’有时事情真会这样发生，你知道吧？我开始较少关注自己的事情，而更多关注周围世界。我需要尽量做到最好，要真正体验生活、清醒起来、学习和提高。”
1. inescapable adj. 不可逃避的；不可避免的
2. diss [dis] v. 对某人轻视、不敬、小看
3. throw down 谴责，打击
4. option n. 选项, 选择权
5. out there “在外边”，但是此处没有实际的意义。
6. Omigod＝Oh my God
7. drama n. 戏剧， 此处指生活中那些令人感到喜怒哀乐的日常琐事
8. polish n. 亮泽，光亮
9. elope v. 私奔
10. dumb down 不做声
11. brace [breis] n. 牙套
12. trumpet n. 小号 play the trumpet 这里是比喻的说法，意为像吹号样声音很大，引人注意。
13. clarinet n. 竖笛
14. asthma n. 哮喘
15. unruly adj. 不受拘束的, 不守规矩的
16. diarrhea n. 痢疾,腹泻
17. lip-synching 假唱