At this point, Pink hasn’t had a massive chart hit in a while, but she can still pack arenas whenever she wants. Pink has had a long, strange career, but she’s a remarkably consistent presence. When Pink calls herself a rock star on “So What,” the “rock” part might be up for debate, but the “star” part is not. In an era when rock stars were becoming an endangered species, maybe Pink reflected some new evolution of the term. But everything that Pink did in those days was some type of provocation. Maybe Pink was being deliberately provocative when she called herself a rock star on “So What,” her first solo chart-topper. As soon as she reached the point where she could assert some career control, though, Pink reinvented herself as a husky-voiced growler of hard emotional truths - something not altogether unlike a rock star. Pink first rose to fame by making R&B-adjacent teen pop in the Destiny’s Child mode, and she’s never really gotten play on rock radio. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.ĭoes Pink count as a rock star? The term “rock star” has been basically meaningless for as long as I can remember, so I don’t have a problem with Pink claiming rock-star status, especially in the year after the Shop Boyz’ “Party Like A Rock Star” and Nickelback’s “Rockstar” were both top-10 hits.
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