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Pink Reveals How Giving Up Smoking Changed Her Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Pink's new album, trust
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Speaker 1: Fall showcases not only her evolution as a songwriter and
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Speaker 1: a woman, also a physical singer, and she tells Variety
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Speaker 1: in her estimation, has actually had three singing voices she's
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Speaker 1: utilized over the years. Her first was operatic, stemming from
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Speaker 1: her love of musicals. Then she adopted her second, which
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Speaker 1: was more rooted in R and B and grew smokier
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Speaker 1: as she aged because she literally was a smoker. She says,
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Speaker 1: I was steadily getting raspier and rasper. I loved it,
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Speaker 1: but when I started going too far, Billy Man, my
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Speaker 1: friend and songwriter partner, sat me down. He said, I
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Speaker 1: think you're at that point now where you have to
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Speaker 1: ask yourself. Am I a singer or a smoker? So
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Speaker 1: I quit round two thousand ten, and then I found
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Speaker 1: this grown up voice. I got two octaves back. My
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Speaker 1: voice has never been stronger. But I don't have the
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Speaker 1: rasp anymore, and I missed that. I wish I could
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Speaker 1: have kept it a bit, but I chose life instead.
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Speaker 1: Trust falls out. Now that's direct from Hollywood.