Pink in Dublin: Pop superstar wastes no time in getting the party started in spectacular fashionThough having been in the music industry for more than two decades, the 44-year-old has just as much energy and enthusiasm for her job as she did when she was first getting started.Pink shows no signs of slowing down after more than two decades in the music industry. Photograph: Laura Hutton
Pink is an artist with whom everyone is familiar. Whether it be her earlier pop punk hits, to her more recent smashes such asBut it’s not just new generation artists who are creating this sort of fanfare; Thursday night’s concert is irrefutable evidence that she too is right on the zeitgeist. But when you take all of the dramatics out of the equation, you are left with someone who can leave an entire stadium enraptured when she is just singing alongside the piano or acoustic guitar. Her most powerful performance, by far, was When I Get There, a song about missing her late father.
There were inflatable flamingos on wheels, trampolines, flames and sparklers, and extraordinary dancers. If anything, there is almost too much going on, making it impossible to decide what to focus on. Photograph: Laura Hutton