You can be smart AND beautiful.

Applause everyone! Here's Pink (aka Alicia Moore) and she's back with an acerbic jibe at a certain part of (American? Global?) society at large. Again.

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Pink has set her target on the 'D' list (famously over-exposed), platinum celebrities; the girls who are famous for being famous and strutting their airheads and equally inflated bosoms on our TV and silver screens.

We know them only too well - the Jessica Simpsons; Paris Hiltons; the Olsen twins and the list goes on. They are the ones who sell themselves through the media as vacuous vapid vamps. She could be addressing the current trend of many teenage girls who �[laugh] loud so all the little people stare� with ambitions to become glamour models or just being 'famous personalities' - whatever that means.

Unfortunately, for these real teenagers, it is quite likely that they have been misled to think that as long as you have two walking sticks that start from your breasts with an eye-pleasing dome on top, you can make it in life, real or reel. What the media doesn't show is that these people have worked hard to craft the ideal that is sold as the final product seen on the screen. Yes, girls and... erm, girls, that means they've had to plan, develop (real brainpower) and work (actual effort) on it to appear stupid and vapid.

Stupidity at the end of the day is still as stupid does.

In her new single, Pink has taken it upon herself to lecture this group of misled shopping mall female youths who �travel in packs of two or three� to wake up. Instead of looking at those platinum blondes who can't chain more than three words together to form a proper sentence, how about turning towards others like Jodi Foster? Diane Sawyer? Hilary Clinton? Oprah Winfrey? Jennifer Lopez? They are living proof that you don't have stupid to be successful (tongue-in-cheek), in fact you can be clever/smart AND beautiful/sexy! They are neither chalk and cheese nor mutually exclusive.

But then again, wasn't Pink the one who declared �Pink is the new Blonde� almost a decade ago when she first started out? So has the girl grown up? Or is it just a(nother) case of sour grapes? There's a point to ponder...

Whatever the case is, there is more to life then fretting over whether that guy last night will call you back or not. There's more to living than making sure that your hairdresser won't fuck up your hair or give you a perpetual bad-hair-day for the next four weeks. So it's time to wake up and continue with the book you left off six months ago, pick up the football you toss to the back of your wardrobe last summer and live your real life. I guess this is very clearly the message that Pink is trying to express and articulate to her audience - ambitious, smart woman can be and are beautiful. Don't be afraid to stand out and be yourself.

At which point I might want to add a little digression to the guys reading this. It's hard not to sound gender-biased here, but in as much as it is possible to be sexy AND smart, it is also perfectly fine to be athletic/sporty and creative/smart. There is nothing wrong with being a judo master or football quarterback and still enjoy Shakespeare and Steinbeck. In fact, trust me when I say that there is nothing more seductive and alluring than a smart, creative head supported on a brawny body.

Spare a moment to think about this. Meanwhile, here's the video to Pink's latest single, �Stupid Girl�.