Pink (40) is a musical superstar - the pop-rock icon has taken at least second place in the charts in Germany since 2003 with each of the six albums she has released since then. However, their music is not only successful and catchy - it is always worth paying close attention to the lyrics. Because Pink often processes experiences that happened in her life in her songs. The lyrics of her last album "Hurts 2B Human", which she released at the end of April, are partly like an honest mirror of her eventful life. The title says it all: "It hurts to be human." On September 8th Alecia Beth Moore, as Pink is actually called, celebrates her 40th birthday.
"My Father's Girl"
"Despite all my harsh words, I'm still my dad's girl," Pink sings on the song "Circle Game." The singer had a difficult childhood - especially the relationship with her mother was not easy. From an early age, Pink had contact with drugs and got on the wrong track. Her parents divorced when she was seven years old. However, she still has a close relationship with her father.
"He was strong enough to fight not only his own monsters but mine and now my children's," she wrote on Instagram in June 2018. In "Circle Game," she continues, "I have a baby daughter of my own and she looks at me like I'm badass and you know I'd like to be. And now there are monsters in her closet that want to come play. I start looking for my dad to come and let her go."
Tough times in the teenage years
Her song "Happy" tells, among other things, of a drastic experience in her teenage years: "Since I was 17, I've always hated my body and it feels like my body hated me too." In an interview with "USA Today" last April, she explained the sad event she was dealing with: Pink suffered a miscarriage at the age of 17.
"When that happens to a girl or a woman, it feels like your body hates you and like it's broken and doesn't want to do what it's supposed to do," she said. Since then she has had several more miscarriages. "I think it's important to talk about what you're ashamed of, who you really are and how painful that is."
Happy Marriage Through Couples Therapy
In the same song she also refers to her husband, motocross rider Carey Hart (44): "Since I was 22 I've been with someone who loves me," Pink sings in "Happy". In an interview with NBC News, she revealed that the couple had been in couples therapy "almost the entire time of our relationship." The relationship was on the verge of ending several times. The therapies are "the only reason we're still together." Like Pink, Carey Hart comes from a broken family. "We both had no idea how to keep a family together and how to lead this crazy life."
But the "crazy life" seems to work: Carey Hart and Pink have been married for 13 years and have two children. Their daughter Willow is now eight years old and their little brother Jameson is two years old. Willow also seems ready to follow in her famous mother's footsteps. At Pink's concerts, she lends a hand behind the scenes and helps with outfit changes during the show, Pink revealed on "The Ellen Show" in April. Sometimes she even opened a lemonade stand. "She's already asked for a raise," added the singer.
At 40, Pink can look back on an eventful life that she can laugh about despite the hard times, as she told USA Today: "I'm quite self-deprecating and if something goes shit - which is inevitable in life - then it has to you just find it funny. Because I can laugh, I can cry so much."
