Final DPS Article

This is my DPS article, and I've mimiced the bold effects I'm going to have on different parts to make it conventional and clear;

As Bolt trudges up the endless flights of stairs to the top-most studio apartment, in the building illegibly scribbled down onto our schedule, clutching our takeout Starbucks macchiatos for dear life, it really doesn’t feel like we’re about to meet a pop rock legend. We finally reach the door, give gentle rap, and there appears P!nk looking surprisingly perky for 7am on a Monday morning.

She invites us into the humongous loft apartment, temporarily rented from a friend while she polishes up her new single here in central London, where we can hear the faint sound of The Killers in the background. Obviously the catalyst of her luminosity, she also has the recent success of “So What” to thank. A bulky career, spanning 8 years, means P!nk is now infamously known for her kickass infectious pop infused with that trademark honest humour, showing she has the guts to say what everyone else thinks. Her outfit today certainly doesn’t disappoint in that respect. Teamed with boyfriend jeans, her plain white tee emblazoned with decapitated Ugg boots says it all…

Nice tee.
Yeah, I hate those god damn things! Why would anyone pay £200 for a f***** teddy shaped like a boot!? I think it’s ironic they’re made from sheepskin when they’re such a sheeple trend too.

Sheeple?
You know, sheep people? Everyone wearing the same thing, it’s just lazy fashion, people who have no creativity or originality, it’s just not what fashion’s about. Sheeple should be ashamed of themselves.

So, are you pissed it took you this long for a No.1, especially against the sheeple in the business?
Haha, not at all. Some artists never get one in their career so I feel pretty lucky really. I accepted a long time ago that not everyone thinks the same way as I do and because I don’t try and play it safe with my songs, it’s inevitable that there’s a club of P!nk haters out there.

You’ve called your sixth album Funhouse. Really? Haven’t you had a pretty rough year with your split [from husband Carey Hart]?
Well originally I wanted to called it “Heartbreak is a Motherf*****” [grins cheekily], but it’s definitely not just a break-up album. My metaphor for the title is the way I see life and love. I see them as a carnival, where the clowns are meant to be happy, but they’re really scary, and the carnival itself is meant to be fun, but is sometimes kind of creepy. But still, we go and we force laughter and buy cotton candy and strap ourselves tight into rides. That’s like life and love to me, the way they’re supposed to be fun but can sometimes be super scary. And the funhouse mirrors, that distort you so you can barely recognise yourself, and you ask yourself “How did I get here?” and “How do I get out?” but then you feel like you want to do it again, which is the same way I often feel about love and life. But I do openly admit some of the songs on Funhouse are about him.

We see Carey’s in the video for “So What”…
That was great because a lot of people were accusing me of being hypocritical and slagging him off in that song even though our split was fairly friendly, but after everyone saw the video they just shut the f*** up. Even better he had never heard it before we shot the video, he trusts me like that.

Would you say you’ve moved on from piss-take “Stupid Girls” style songs?
This album is my most vulnerable to date, but there still are those “I don’t give a crap what you think” songs like “So What” and “Bad Influence”. I’m not going to abandon the style I’ve made my name with, as it’s true to me and I’m not going to make a U-turn to fit in with anything else, like some other people, mentioning no names. But I have expanded my emotional horizons on a lot of songs, as I’ve never been afraid to expose my soul as well as speak my mind.

P!nk’s turning emo [sarcastic shocked faces].
Not happening! All that “music stops me self-harming” shit is overrated anyway. I put it in the same category as Ugg boots, size zero and McDonalds.

What would that category be?
Bullshit.