MTV Video Vanguard Award Speech (Live|360 Reality Audio) - P!NK (红粉佳人)

I know I don't have a lot of time

But if I may tell you a quick story

Recently I was driving my daughter

To school and she said to me

Out of the blue 'Mama

I said 'Yes baby

She said 'I'm the ugliest girl

I know

And I said 'Huh

And she was like

Yeah I look like a boy

With long hair

And my brain went to

Oh my god you're 6

Why

Where is this coming from

Who said this

Can I kick a 6 year old's a*s

Like what

But I didn't say anything

Instead I went home and

I made a Powerpoint

Presentation for her

And in that presentation were

Androgynous rockstars and

Artists that live their truth

Are probably made fun of

Every day of their life

And carry on wave their flag

And inspire the rest of us

And these are artists like

Michael Jackson

And David Bowie and

Freddie Mercury and Annie Lennox

And Prince and Janis Joplin and

George Michael Elton John

So many artists her eyes glazed

Over But then I said

You know I really wanna know

Why you feel this way

About yourself

And she said 'Well I look

Like a boy and I said

Well what do you think I look like

And she said

Well you're beautiful

And I was like

Well thanks But when people

Make fun of me that's

What they use

They say I look like a boy or

I'm too masculine or

I have too many opinions

My body is too strong

And I said to her 'Do you see me

Growing my hair

She said

No Mama I said 'Do you see me

Changing my body

No Mama 'Do you see me

Changing the way

I present myself to the world

No Mama 'Do you see me selling

Out arenas all over the world

Yes Mama 'OK So baby girl

We don't change

We take the gravel and the

Shell and we make a pearl

And we help other people

To change so they can see

More kinds of beauty

And you my darling girl are

Beautiful and I love you

Thank you guys