Pink’s Funhouse tour touches down in the States in two weeks, which means Americans will get their first look at the singer’s high-flying circus spectacle. It’s a physically punishing show that has the nearly 30-year-old star spinning from the ceiling to masturbation tune “Fingers,” catapulting though the air on a trapeze and, perhaps even more dangerously, covering “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Rolling Stone’s Gavin Edwards met up with Pink (born Alecia Moore) during her record-shattering 58-date sold-out Australian arena tour, where she spoke candidly about her breakup (and reconciliation) with Carey Hart, a food fight that ended in a hospital trip, her urge to party (”The demons start talking late at night: ‘Come play with us’ “) and her enduring role as the country’s most unlikely pop star (”I’m the constant underdog in America. It’s been this constant fight to prove I have some kind of talent,” she says).
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