Pink

Joe Clark is a pink tory.

See also The Pink Palace.

Like many of the rest of the Jones Soda line, it's a bit overcarbonated and somewhat too sweet.

If I were to have to describe how Pink tastes, I'd likely tell you that it's liquified and carbonated cotton candy. Spun sugar in a bottle.

This is one of those drinks enjoyed by little kids to reach hyper-speed, and by those who are fond of very sugary things.

The ingredients list is fairly short: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, natural and artificial flavors, citric acid, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (as preservatives), modified food starch, ester gum, red 40.

The only notable part of the Nutrition Facts is that it contains approximately 16% of your daily Carbohydrate value (as based on a 2000 calorie diet) and all of that is Sugars.

¹ Its Japanese name is Nadeshiko, literally "pretty girl".

The wildly popular R&B/pop singer Alecia Moore (better known to the television-watching world as Pink) was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on September 8, 1979, to James and Judy Moore. Her parents divorced when she was still a toddler, and they alternated custody of young Alecia and her older brother Jason. The family is Irish-American/Jewish.

Pink is perhaps better described as an antithesis to her current audience and her music press-dictated contemporaries; a badass pseudopunk rocker that would just as soon record a cover of The Misfits' "Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight" (not that she has... yet) as record a pop ballad. This musical asset, however, is largely lost on most mainstream music critics and totally ignored by most of Pink's audience. Much to her chagrin, she occupies a niche among fans of Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and their ilk; the pre- to early-teenage suburban girls of America and wherever else such creatures can be found. Her fame was so widespread among that audience that her record company has, so far, thought it prudent to mix utterances of the word "fuck" out of all songs that contain it on the first two albums she released. The result sounds like she's saying "fffk," but it's still plainly obvious that she's really saying "fuck." I hope her label comes to its senses soon and releases her audience doesn't consist entirely of preteen girls whose mothers would blanch if they heard someone saying "fuck" on one of their daughter's CDs.

Tired of being compared
to damned Britney Spears
she's so pretty
that just ain't me

-- "Don't Let Me Get Me" --

Pink grew up around music and by the age of 13 was a regular at several Philadelphia-area dance clubs. By age 15 she had a record deal with La Face Records, singing for an all-girl R&B trio called Choice, which ultimately didn't work out. However, based on Pink's songwriting abilities during the Choice studio sessions, she got her own record deal with La Face as a solo artist and, in 1999, released her first solo album, Can't Take Me Home, which quickly went double-platinum and spawned a number of singles, notably "There You Go," "Most Girls" (which has been called the "I Will Survive" of the new millennium) and "You Make Me Sick," and each single release was packed with remixes, most notably a remix of "There You Go" by house artist Hani Num. She followed it up in 2001 with another multiplatinum release, M!ssundaztood, which thus far has spawned the überhit "Get The Party Started," along with the lesser hit "Don't Let Me Get Me," and got her further thrown into the spotlight at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards when she joined forces and compared lingerie with would-be Latina teenybopper Christina Aguilera, gangsta rap beeotch li'l Kim and R&B princess Mıa, to perform the theme from the movie Moulin Rouge, a cover of Patti Labelle's disco hit, the Francophone "Lady Marmalade." Missundaztood was nominated for a Grammy in 2002, and the Get The Party Started video won "Best Female Video" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, an award which Pink accepted with the phrase "I'm too drunk for this shit."

Pink has worked extensively with Linda Perry, formerly of 4 Non Blondes. When she tours, Linda comes along, playing guitar and backing Pink's vocals on stage. Linda has become somewhat of a musical mentor for Pink. When they first met, the song "Eventually" was completed less than an hour later. Linda is also responsible for bringing her protegé to a wider audience, namely the 30-something lesbian crowd that makes up Linda's primary fanbase. Pink fandom among the lesbian community is a rapidly growing phenomenon, and Pink is totally cool with it. Perry, coincidentally, bought Pink her first lap dance at a (female) strip club while they were working on M!ssundaztood.

Pink enlisted the help of Rancid guitarist Tim Armstrong for the recording of her third full-length album, entitled Try This.

She got her nickname, "Pink," because she is known to turn a pinkish color whenever she is embarrassed or when she gets shy, and also from her admiration of Steve Buscemi's "Mr. Pink" character in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs.

There have been a lot of rumours lately that Pink is a lesbian, but they are so far just rumours -- no confirmation either way from Pink herself or her PR people. I like her a lot as it is, but if she does eventually out herself (if she is indeed a lesbian), she'd be so cool you could keep a side of beef in her for a month. It would seem that Pink is in fact bisexual, after all. She was apparently spotted recently getting frisky with actress Kristanna Loken, who played the T-X in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, at various nightclubs.

Miss Moore (if you're nasty) married (male) motorcross racer Carey Hart on January 7, 2006, after a six-month engagement and five years of dating. After almost exactly two years of marriage, she and Carey separated and eventually divorced. Hear that, ladies?! She's single again!

Some other random facts:

• Has two dogs, named Fucker and Corky.
• Is a vegetarian.
• Changes her hair color ten times a year on average.
• Declined an invite to perform at Prince William's birthday party because he hunts foxes (like all male British royalty).
• Appeared as herself in the films Rollerball (2002) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).
• Landed the role of Carolyn in the 2007 horror/slasher film Catacombs.
• Is an ardent supporter of animal rights.

DISCOGRAPHY:

Albums

• Can't Take Me Home (1999, CD, La Face Records)
• M!ssundaztood (2001, CD, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Try This (2003, CD, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• I'm Not Dead (2006, CD, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• TBA (2008, CD, La Face Records/Arista Records)

DVDs

• P!nk: Live in Europe (2006)
• P!nk: Live from Wembley Arena (2008)

Singles

• Don't Stop (CD, 1998, La Face Records)
• Most Girls (CD and DVD, 2000, La Face Records)
• You Make Me Sick (CD, 2000, La Face Records)
• There You Go (CD, 2000, La Face Records)
• Get The Party Started (CD, 2001, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Don't Let Me Get Me (CD and DVD, 2001, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Lady Marmalade [with Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim and Mıa] (CD, 2002, Interscope Records/Moulin Rouge! OST)
• Just Like a Pill (CD, 2002, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Family Portrait (CD and DVD, 2002, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Feel Good Time [feat. William Orbit] (CD, 2003, Sony Records/Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle OST)
• Trouble (CD, 2003, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• God is a DJ (CD, 2003, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Last To Know (CD, 2004, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Stupid Girls (CD, 2006, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Who Knew (CD, 2006, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• U + Ur Hand (CD, 2006, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Nobody Knows (CD, 2006, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Dear Mr. President [feat. Indigo Girls] (CD, 2006, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) (CD, 2007, La Face Records/Arista Records)
• Cuz I Can (CD, 2007, La Face Records/Arista Records)

Pink (?), n. [D. pink.] Naut.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

Sir W. Scott.

Pink stern Naut., a narrow stern.

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Pink, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with the eyes.]

To wink; to blink.

L'Estrange.

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Pink, a.

Half-shut; winking.

Shak.

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Pink, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pinking.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form of pick.]

1.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

2.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

Addison.

3.

To choose; to cull; to pick out.

Herbert.

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Pink, n.

A stab.

Grose.

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Pink, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the petals were picked out. Cf. Pink, v. t.]

1. Bot.

A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

2.

A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.

Dryden.

3.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

Shak.

4. Zool.

The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

Bunch pink is Dianthus barbatus. -- China, ∨ Indian, pink. See under China. -- Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived. -- Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye. -- Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin. -- Maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides. -- Moss pink. See under Moss. -- Pink needle, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See Alfilaria. -- Sea pink. See Thrift.

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Pink, a.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

Pink eye Med., a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt Chem. & Dyeing, the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

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