Pink is No Stupid Girl

This is one rocker chick who’s glad she’s not thin or perfect

Pink is back, and she wants you to know it. The first cut from her new album I'm Not Dead (Sony BMG/LaFace) is the take-no-prisoners, attitude-heavy “Stupid Girls.”

Brutally honest, “Stupid Girls” shreds everything Pink hates about superficial pop culture and how it affects girls' self-image. It’s a challenge to women everywhere to seek better role models than the "porno paparazzi girls" with their "itsy-bitsy doggies and their teeny-weenie tees" that our culture celebrates on TV and in magazines.

It's impossible to hear this ditty without thinking of gals whose names include Paris, Jessica and Mary-Kate—especially since they're directly lampooned in the song's video. Although she doesn’t name names, "It's pretty obvious," the Los Angeles-based singer says. "I'm talking about a general mentality. I use examples because I can't help but be blunt."
Namely, that she hates how it’s considered cool to be dumb these days. "A girl should not have to dumb herself down to be cute," Pink told a crowd of about 750 girls at a Toronto high school, where she recently attended a Q&A session and participated in a debate about role models for young women and the impact they have.
“My definition (of a stupid girl) is any girl who wastes her opportunity trying to be like somebody else, because we’re all pretty awesome,” she said. “Everybody has something they’re good at. It’s doesn’t have to be shopping.”

Audience member Polly, 16, didn’t expect Pink to have so much to say on such a serious topic. “I didn’t expect that she’d be that real. I think she’s sending a really good message.”

For all her new seriousness, Pink hasn’t turned into a preach-queen. In both conversation and music, she’s still having a blast. Most of I'm Not Dead boasts the catchy pop/rock that electrifies her previous CDs. And she's as lyrically sassy as ever, evidenced in the kiss-off to a guy, "U + Ur Hand," or the song "Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)," in which Pink sings about bristling under any guy who crowds her space.
Whether discussing heartbreak, childhood, doomed romance, fake friends or the cult of celebrity, Pink states her mind with open-eyed candor—and two tons of attitude.

On the topic of boys, Pink told the students to force them to “deal with our minds before our bodies. Guys are going to like us anyway. We don’t have to take our clothes off for them to like us and chase us around.”