Her daughter may think she’s a ‘total dork’, but the singer – back with her seventh album – has become an outspoken idol to millions of young women. She’s come a long way since being banned from friends’ houses as a rebellious kid.
Photograph by Kurt Iswarienko
MTV’s Vanguard award, now named after Michael Jackson, is given to the biggest names in pop. Over the past 10 years, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Beyoncé and Rihanna have been handed the honour, and traditionally, it is a celebration of a solid stint at the top, an excuse for a greatest hits medley and a gracious speech at the ceremony, thanking all of those who made it possible. This August, it was the turn of Alecia Moore, known since she was a teenager as Pink.
When she came up on stage at the VMAs to accept it, she didn’t do the usual thank-yous. Instead, she dedicated it to her six-year-old daughter, Willow, and told a story about accepting one’s flaws and the power of being a weirdo. Willow had come home from school one day and announced that she was the “ugliest girl I know”, Moore said. She responded by making her daughter a PowerPoint presentation of androgynous pop stars such as David Bowie, Prince and Annie Lennox. “We don’t change,” she declared, at the end, to the apparent joy of the celebrities watching in the crowd. “We help other people to change, so they can see more kinds of beauty.”
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