FRIDAY APRIL 7 .....
I love her message ~ this discussion is WELL overdue .... I'm glad I picked up the new album

TORONTO (CP) - Hundreds of screaming teenage girls welcomed singer Pink and her message of girl power Friday at a local high school.


Singer Pink:
"A girl should not have to dumb herself down to be cute," the Los Angeles-based singer told a crowd of about 750 girls as she answered students' questions at Humberside Collegiate Institute. "How smart we are is what makes us so interesting." Pink visited the city to promote her new album, I'm Not Dead, out this week.
The event was organized by Blockheadz, a non-profit organization specializing in "edu-tainment" - using celebrities to promote learning.

Minutes before Pink was brought into the auditorium, her video for the song Stupid Girls was shown for students.

In the song, Pink sings: "What happened to the dream of a girl president? She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent."

The video pokes fun at celebrities like Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and Jessica Simpson. In one scene, 26-year-old Pink - whose real name is Alecia Moore - is wearing oversized sunglasses while buying a fluffy little dog. In another, she's getting an orange, spray-on tan. Yet another has her lying on a plastic surgery table.

"My definition (of a stupid girl) is any girl who wastes her opportunity trying to be like somebody else, because we're all pretty awesome," said Pink about what she was trying to convey in the video.

"Everybody has something they're good at. It doesn't have to be shopping."

The singer spent 45 minutes answering questions on topics ranging from boys to body image and what her favourite school subject was (English).

The video has caused plenty of buzz, with media pitting Pink against Hollywood starlets.

Students attending the afternoon event cheered during the viewing, breaking into laughter during Pink's send-up of Hilton's sex tape and Simpson's These Boots Are Made for Walkin' video.

Pink also addresses eating disorders in the video. At one point she enters a bathroom declaring she ate "like 300 calories today" and pretends to make herself vomit in a sink.

"It's really good. It sends out a good message," said Chiara Tariarnold, a Grade 10 student. "She has a point. I think it's funny.

The 15-year-old said she often feels the pressures to emulate Hollywood beauty.

"It's hard not to let it get to you since it's everywhere. You always look at the TV and always see these girls that are really skinny and really pretty - not everyone looks like that."

Acknowledging how tough it is to avoid the images, Pink urged the crowd not to get caught up in the "stupid girl epidemic" and instead try to be a "smart girl."

"For me it was a long road," she admitted. "Self-respect and self-love took me many many years to find."

But she acknowledged the girls would have a tough time in today's world.

"Every image we see is you have to be a size zero. you have to have a certain handbag . . . don't contribute anything to the world just shop all day," she said.

On the topic of boys, Pink told the students to force them "to deal with our minds before our bodies."

"Guys are going to like us anyway. We don't have to take our clothes off for them to like us and chase us around. It's gonna happen," she said.

Go Pink!!! she rocks

Very Cool!

Look OUT!! Girl on a mission!! yyaayyy!!

I'M GLAD THAT GIRLS HAVE SOMEONE THEY CAN LOOK UP YO INSTEAD OF PARIS HILTON

She freakin rocks man....Good for her for keeping it real...And giving something back!!! Go Pink!!!

What if the dumbness comes natural?

Good 4 pink !

thumbs up for Pink...thank you. It is about time...I can see why Lisa likes her so much.

gooooo pink!