Hour 4: Is Pink the Greatest Solo Artist Alive Today?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Get this party started on a Sunday night.

**Craig Carton** (0:04)
Alright, I'm gonna give you guys all a chance to earn yourselves some Ralph's Italian Ices for tomorrow, alright? Who wrote that song?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:15)
Bum ba ba da da.

**Craig Carton** (0:16)
You can play it while it's going, it's fine, bye man.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:20)
If you know what I mean.

**Craig Carton** (0:22)
That is Pink, yes.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:26)
Ed Sheeran.

**Craig Carton** (0:27)
Ed Sheeran, are you locked in on Ed Sheeran? Okay, that's your guess.
Pete, you want to take a shot? No cheating in there, cheaters.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:33)
There's no cheating.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:35)
Pat Monahan.

**Craig Carton** (0:36)
Pat Monahan of Train. Okay, that's not a real answer.
You're locked in on Pat Monahan, you're locked in on Ed Sheeran.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:43)
I don't want to be.

**Craig Carton** (0:44)
What's the intern's name? Doug?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:46)
Joe. Joe?

**Joe** (0:47)
Steve.

**Craig Carton** (0:48)
Joe. Who wrote this song? Joe.

**Joe** (0:54)
We can turn up a little bit. Oh wait, I am. Turn it off.
LA Reid, you mean?

**SPEAKER_5** (1:00)
No.

**Joe** (1:01)
This sounds like Pink. It is Pink. Yes, it's Pink.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:04)
Who wrote it, dude?

**Joe** (1:05)
Oh, who wrote it?

**Craig Carton** (1:07)
The question from Jump was who wrote it, not who sang it. The aforementioned Pink sang it, as you hear her now.

**Joe** (1:15)
No idea.

**Craig Carton** (1:16)
You're the worst. Why did you look it up?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:18)
I didn't.

**Craig Carton** (1:19)
What did you just do on your phone?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:21)
LA Reid.

**Craig Carton** (1:22)
It was not LA Reid either.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:24)
No, I didn't look it up.

**Joe** (1:25)
No. This was Milly Vanilli.

**Craig Carton** (1:26)
Not Milly Vanilli, not LA Reid. A woman wrote it.
She also wrote one of Christina Aguilera's biggest hits.

**Joe** (1:37)
Adele?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:38)
No.

**Craig Carton** (1:38)
I Am Beautiful.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:41)
In every single way?

**Craig Carton** (1:42)
In every single...

**Joe** (1:44)
Kelly Clarkson.

**Craig Carton** (1:44)
She also wrote for her own group, the biggest hit that that group had.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:51)
I don't know her name, but it's the girl from Four Non Blondes.

**Joe** (1:54)
Linda Perry.

**Craig Carton** (1:55)
Linda Perry. Linda Perry wrote that as a goof.
Yeah, she's like, she's, I guess, a prolific writer. And she wrote it as a goof. And Pink was like, I like that. Can I have it? So, yeah, it's a joke. I could listen to the lyrics.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:08)
It makes it stupid.

**Craig Carton** (2:09)
Yeah. And I think Pink's first hit.
Yep. She went on to write nine other hits for Pink as well. Really? Uh-huh. That's right. So there you go. She wrote one of my favorite Pink songs of all time, Dear Mr. President, which never got radio play. You look at me quizzically like you don't even know the song.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:26)
Don't.

**Craig Carton** (2:27)
You got Dear Mr. President by Pink. It's kind of a political song, so.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:30)
Is it the same as Marilyn Monroe?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:32)
Dear Mr. President.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:34)
That's Happy Birthday, Mr. President.

**Craig Carton** (2:35)
Take a walk with me. No, you never heard that song?

**Joe** (2:38)
Oh, dude.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:39)
I don't know Pink deep cuts. Sorry.

**Craig Carton** (2:41)
Why are you knocking Pink?

**Joe** (2:42)
Nothing.

**Craig Carton** (2:43)
The most prolific female performer since Mandela. Arguably the greatest female performer of all time.
Pink. Facts.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:52)
We're talking about Pink?

**Craig Carton** (2:53)
Facts. Yes.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:54)
The greatest female performer of all time.

**Craig Carton** (2:55)
One of, arguably, the greatest, certainly of her generation.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:58)
Who's the name performer?

**Craig Carton** (3:00)
President.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:00)
Singer, performer.

**Craig Carton** (3:01)
Yeah. There you go.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:03)
You mean like...

**Craig Carton** (3:04)
She was post-Whitney Houston, but kind of crossover-y a bit.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:07)
You mean like performer as like on stage.

**Craig Carton** (3:08)
She's one of the great singers of all time.
Yes. Obviously, Whitney's a special rarefied air. Mariah Carey, not in the Hall of Fame. Special rarefied air. You go back to Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, rarefied air, different era obviously.
I would say that of the current single solo artist rather, Pink's probably the goat of this generation, to be fair. Because you have to look at it generationally. Because you go like Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, that generation of the current getting airplay generation, I would say that Pink is the greatest solo artist of all the women out there. And I'm another Langley guy, and I'm a Lainey Wilson guy, but Pink, stand alone.