{"id":1693,"date":"2006-04-27T23:05:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/04\/27\/pnk_beautiful_a.html"},"modified":"2006-04-27T23:05:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T23:05:45","slug":"pnk_beautiful_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/04\/27\/pnk_beautiful_a.html","title":{"rendered":"P!nk: beautiful and political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.ent2.yimg.com\/musicfinder.yahoo.com\/images\/yahoo\/arista\/pink\/1101_pink_a.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"150\">Although i had heard P!nk&#8217;s music on the radio over the last couple of years, i didn&#8217;t pay much attention to her until her latest video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/ifilmdetail\/2707440?htv=12&#038;htv=12\">Stupid Girls<\/a> started popping up all over MySpace.  I was floored by the no-bullshit strong feminism coming out of a mainstream artist and utterly ecstatic to see young girls share her video on their pages.  So i bought her latest CD.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000EGCITG\/danah-20\">I&#8217;m Not Dead<\/a> unapologetically political and extremely beautiful and i have just been playing it on repeat all night.  One song in particular &#8211; &#8220;Dear Mr. President&#8221; &#8211; really got under my skin.  Featuring Indigo Girls, it&#8217;s an open letter to Bush.  Here&#8217;s a sample from the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How do you sleep while the rest of us cry<br \/>\nHow do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye<br \/>\nHow do you walk with your head held high<br \/>\nCan you even look me in the eye<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you bout hard work<br \/>\nMinimum wage with a baby on the way<br \/>\nLet me tell you bout hard work<br \/>\nRebuilding your house after the bombs took them away<br \/>\nLet me tell you bout hard work<br \/>\nBuilding a bed out of a cardboard box<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since i wanted to celebrate a mainstream artist, but P!nk&#8217;s latest album really blows me away and i wanted to share that with those of you who haven&#8217;t been paying attention to mainstream music.  Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although i had heard P!nk&#8217;s music on the radio over the last couple of years, i didn&#8217;t pay much attention to her until her latest video Stupid Girls started popping up all over MySpace. I was floored by the no-bullshit strong feminism coming out of a mainstream artist and utterly ecstatic to see young girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}