Pink’s Message To Her Rabid Dog Fans

Some of Pink’s fans are giving her a hard time for canceling one of her gigs. As she puts it, “The next time I schedule dates – I’ll have to say to myself- ‘if, God forbid I have to cancel one show, those fans will turn on me like rabid dogs and question the moral fabric of my character.’”

The pop star’s crime that brought upon all of the recent hate mail from fans? Pink couldn’t make it to her April 22 show at the LG Arena in Birmingham, England, because she was suffering from an ear and respiratory infection. The date was initially going to be rescheduled but the venue announced last week that it was being canceled all together.

In a post on her website simply titled “Pink’s message” she writes that she had to cancel the show because she “had absolutely no choice in the matter, no control over the circumstances and physically could not get my sick ass on stage.”

Pink said she sincerely apologized (AGAIN), noting that she actually drove by the venue and saw fans in line that day. With nothing she could about it except cry, she added that her “heart was absolutely broken.”

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Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

And why can’t she reschedule the Birmingham gig?

“The fact that I don’t get the benefit of the doubt from you saddens me. There is no way I can make up this date,” Pink writes. “There isn’t a way. And for any of you that believe in me, please know we did everything we could to try to make it happen. Everything. It’s a logistical nightmare that is again, out of my control.”

Pink urged her critics to look at her track record for past tours.

“I do not cancel and I do not take it for granted how much trouble people go to- from spending hard earned money they don’t have, to travel expenses and time and planning, etc. I take NONE of it for granted, EVER. That’s why I never phone it in. I go on stage and pour my fucking heart and body out on that stage. I ruin my body and my vocal chords, make myself sicker, come hell or high water. I don’t lip sync, I don’t rely on dancers to do my work for me. I try to put the best show on that I can, that any human being can, and I don’t stop until I know you’re happy.”

Now, about that last line. Believe it or not, Pink is a human being. It’s true. Don’t let her stage show fool you. As the Los Angeles Times puts it, Pink is “perhaps the most gifted and imaginative physical performer in pop right now,” but even a singer with incredible aerialist skills and a “Joplin-esque power-rasp voice” can still get sick.

“I am a human being, therefore I am able to catch illness. It is beyond my control – and I can’t apologize for that. … For the loyal and understanding fans- I am so so sorry if I’ve hurt you in any way. For the rest of you – Kindly kiss my entire almost back to healthy ass.”

Pink signed the message with her birth name: “Alecia the human also known as p!nk.”