Another Party Gets Started With Pink

As you might imagine, executives at Arista records have spent the past year or so quietly biting their nails as the label's loosest cannon--and one of its most profitable artists--was finishing her new album, experimenting with punk and Zeppelinesque rock and roping in her unlikely collaborators. "They kept asking, 'What do you think it's going to be like?' and I'd say, 'Death-metal opera'," Pink says. " 'Oh, and a little Barbra Streisand'." (In fact, the new album, co-written and -produced by Perry and a big-deal punk rocker whose name she's not revealing just yet, ranges from hard-rock blowouts to steamy club beats by the X-rated DJ Peaches. And that love song she now wishes weren't there.) "The record company was pretty scared, but now that they've heard it, they're OK. I love messing with people." Between the bullhorn and the late-night skateboarding, her neighbors have already figured that out. Turn down that music, lady. You're going to wake up the whole neighborhood.

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