“Just Like a Pill,” by P!nk, Monday, April 15, 2024
Last year, the Hit Parade podcast highlighted one of the most consistent voices in pop music in the previous twenty years. Yet, Alecia Beth Moore , a.k.a. P!nk ’s career has been underrated perhaps because it is so M!ssundaztood . First marketed as an R&B act by her record company, P!nk’s debut album, Can’t Take Me Home , introduced the star as racially ambiguous. P!nk’s second album began to bridge the singer into guitar-based rock ballads, which would be the meat of her career. Following the album’s first single, “ Get This Party Started ,” M!ssundaztood ’s second single and second track “ Don’t Let Me Get Me ” displays Moore’s desire to be a singer on her own terms: a rock-influenced pop star who would sing about what she wanted to. I CAN’T STAY ON YOUR MORPHINE ‘CAUSE IT’S MAKING ME ITCH. P!nk was signed by Atlanta-based R&B and Hip-Hop label LaFace Records whose president, L.A. Reid tried to market Moore as an R&B/teen-pop crossover act. But rock would become P!nk’s