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TORONTO (CP) - Hundreds of screaming teenage girls welcomed singer Pink and her message of girl power Friday at a Toronto high school.
"A girl should not have to dumb herself down to be cute," the Los Angeles-based singer told a crowd of 750 girls as she answered students' questions at Humberside Collegiate Institute. "How smart we are is what makes us so interesting. Everybody has something they're good at. It doesn't have to be shopping."
Pink's album I'm Not Dead was released this week
In the song Stupid Girls, Pink sings: "What happened to the dream of a girl president? She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent."
The video pokes fun at celebrity stars like Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson.
In one scene, the 26-year-old Pink - whose real name is Alecia Moore - is wearing oversized sunglasses while buying a fluffy little dog. In another, she's getting an orange, spray-on tan. Yet another has her lying on a plastic surgery table.
There's also a jab at celebutante Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape.
Pink recreates Simpson's video for These Boots Are Made for Walkin', where Simpson wore a bikini to wash a car.
Pink also addresses eating disorders in the video by dressing up in a blond wig, entering a bathroom declaring she ate "like 300 calories today" and pretending to make herself vomit in a sink beside a young girl doing the same thing.
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