In reply to Lovebird (Dark Horse - PRISM - 10.22.13)).

Christina has a beautiful soulful voice when she is careful in her singing. We all know that she is talented. But talent can only take you so far in the music industry. I could site numerous examples. So lets go all the way back to 2001-2002 and you will see that the only reason that Christina hit her trajectory and has been able to stay in the industry is because she follows the lead of everyone around her and has routinely taken the ideas, inspiration, and savvy of pink's left overs. For instance, she never would have created "Beautiful" if not for pink bringing Linda Perry out of non-existence. When Pink stepped away from what people expected her to do, on each and every album, Christina was the first to perk up and follow suit. Pink is one of the few artists that keeps it real, doesn't play into the hype, takes risks, and writes REAL music that comes from places within herself. You d!cks talking crap about her body-calling her a man-are just jealous that her abs are better than yours and you are doing exactly what her songs mock-people looking at her body and not listening to her lyrics or her voice. For an artist to be transparent and to sing from such a raw and vulnerable place is the truest form of mastery. Lets not even mention the fact that Pink can out perform any single artist today. Christina can sit pretty and sing, lets see her in silks, trapeze, actually dancing, and still being able to keep her lyrics and her voice controlled and beautiful. Add performing while largely pregnant with a live mic and dancing and running around the stage and you have PINK, an true artist, a true athlete, and someone who does NOT give you mediocre music, fake lyrics written to sell albums as opposed to reaching a persons soul, or lip-singing parades. Moreover, you will never see her aspire to be a non-athletic, skinny-becuase that is supposedly more beautiful than being strong, beauty over brains girl. Lastly, if Pink was throwing shade at Christina you would know it. You wouldn't be questioning and debating on wether she did or did not. She is not jealous as she has no reason to be. She is gorgeous, she is strong, and she is confident. She does not aspire to be everyone's favorite "pop star," she knows who she is and people are still afraid of that!! The stupid petty arguments and comments (especially by "LOL") believe that music is still about objectifying the female body-making females fit into a few specific categories and shaming an artist that has accomplished and over come more things in her life than most people can even attain to. She is a beautiful, strong, female who has had a baby, is married, and has continued to reach generations for nearly 20 years. With each album she has risked her fan base- as she has reinvented and challenged herself to not make albums that are the same each time and with each set back or heart break she has only gotten stronger. In music Imitation is not the greatest form of flattery. Robin Thicke learned that the hard way. Christina has imitated and followed P!nk's skirt/coat tails for a very long time and would never have had Beautiful or have gotten her Hollywood Star or many of her awards without her competition and imitation of Pink. The only reason Pink is not as famed as Christina is because she is hardcore, uses the F bomb and tells us all exactly what she is thinking. She is honest to a fault according to all of you and yet you still think that those comments were mean or her being a B!!ch....have you never heard her before? Those were facts stated and sometime the truth hurts-which is why people are afraid of Pink/do not like her. The truth is a hard pill to swallow.