Pink performs at BST Hyde Park Festival 2023 on June 25, 2023 in London, England.
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Humid heat with 35 degrees in the Rhineland. CSD weekend including mega parade. And then Alecia Beth Moore aka Pink at the Cologne Stadium; sold out twice in a row. There is a moment of confusion between her artistic interludes, which even a vocal gymnast like Helene Fischer easily tops.
Between two songs, Pink shoots easily from the hip during an interim announcement: “I hope that my son and daughter will buy me tickets for Rammstein at some point…”
Apparently, the always dedicated and Grammy-winning songwriter hadn’t noticed the long debate about the allegations of abuse and “Row Zero”. Because despite the astonished reaction of the audience, which reacts rather cautiously, she continues in a conversational tone: “Anyone who has never been to a Rammstein concert; People…. you absolutely have to go there! They set people on fire on stage.” Then she is taken aback by the silence and grumbling in the front rows.
“No!? Don’t like Rammstein? Were they cancelled? Why?” And then with a self-ironic note: “Did they set someone on fire and not extinguish it? We really don’t like them? Okay, then we just don’t like them all together! By the way, I myself have been canceled 48 times.”
Before her second Cologne show on Sunday (July 9th), she was apparently informed by her crew environment about the debate about singer Till Lindenmann and Co. On her Twitter account with 31 million followers, Pink responds to her stage statement: “Someone explained it to me after the performance,” says Pink, and thanks her German fans for letting her fans know. “Totally boom!”
Now sensitized to this matter, she shares the tweet from an attentive visitor to her concert, which refers to a background article in the English newspaper “Guardian”, which deals with the allegations against the Rammstein singer from a London perspective.