Pinkis looking back on the scrutiny and comparisons she and her pop star peers weathered early on in their careers.
“It was so unfair to all the girls,” Pink, 41, says in the new issue of PEOPLE of being pitted againstBritney SpearsandChristina Aguileraas they rose to fame in the early aughts. “None of us wanted that.”
Pink was even marketed as an “anti-Britney” figure in music, which she never wanted.
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“I love Britney — she used to carry around my album,” says the star, whose new Amazon Prime VideodocumentaryP!nk: All I Know So Far(streaming May 21) offers a rare glimpse of her life backstage on tour with her family in tow. “I was like, ‘Dude, I’m a street punk, I just skateboard. That doesn’t have to be the anti-Britney. I don’t want to fight anybody.'”
Pink got some advice on the matter that she’s carried with her through her two decades of pop stardom.
“One of the best things that [music executive] L.A. Reid ever told me was that this music business is big enough for everybody to win at the same time. There’s no such thing as competition,” she says. “I think we navigated through it as good as a 20-year-old girl can. Now I think it’s totally different. Girls supporting girls is rad — I love to watch it.”
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“I love singing ‘Drivers License’ with my daughter,” she says. “Her and her little 12-year-old friends gave me the whole lowdown onwhat happened between the three of themin all the songs!”
For more on Pink, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
source: people.com
