Pink on Tina Turner, Jann Wenner and her 'desperate need for connection'
Pink is on the phone between tour dates, two stadium gigs in her hometown of Philadelphia behind her and one coming up in a few days in Nashville, Tennessee, which brings a question to mind: Would she ever make a country record?
"Oh, I've made country records," the singer replies, pointing to duets with Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney, the last of which went to No. 1 on country radio in 2016. But what about an album-length immersion — maybe a Dolly-and-Porter-Waggoner-style set with Stapleton?
"Nah," she says with a laugh. "I don't do whole albums of anything."
That much is true: One of pop music's biggest voices, Pink, 44, has been making eclectic (if reliably hit-filled) LPs since 2000, veering among slick R&B jams, crunchy pop-rock bangers, rootsy acoustic numbers and sweeping power ballads with a message of self-empowerment that somehow never feels sappy. Her latest, "Trustfall," extends the streak: After "Kids in Love," a campfire-ish tune featuring Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit, Pink moves directly into the roller-disco-ready "Never Gonna Not Dance Again," which she cut with the veteran Top 40 maestro Max Martin.
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