And the lead single from 2017's Beautiful Trauma was 'What About Us,' which blends sleek synthesizers with lyrics advocating for the forgotten.

Bush that blended hypocrite-exposing pettiness ('You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine') with pleas for tolerance and empathy the folk-rock powerhouse Indigo Girls assisted her on backup vocals. President,' an open letter to then-President George W. Subsequent singles, like the wrenching 'Family Portrait' off the same album and the post-breakup power ballad 'Sober' from 2008's 'Funhouse,' also looked at her tribulations - her parents' marital problems when she was a child, her own separation when she was in her late 20s - with searing candor.Īnd, in 2005 she released 'Dear Mr. Reid for trying to fit her into the sexy female teenpop world early in her career, but its lyrics also encapsulated a lifetime of not fitting in and what insecurity can wreak: 'Doctor, doctor, won't you please prescribe me somethin'/ A day in the life of someone else?/ Cause I'm a hazard to myself,' she pleads, her voice cracking on the 'else.' Singer Pink performs during her 'The Truth About Love' tour on Main New York.

Her loose-limbed 2002 single 'Don't Let Me Get Me,' for instance, got attention for rebuking then-record-company-president L.A. She's also been outspoken about women's roles, childhood trauma and politics both on records and in the press.

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