I usually enjoy a good behind-the-scenes tour of a celebrity’s life, but this one just stressed me out.
This documentary follows Pink and her family during the European leg of her tour. Pink has chosen to bring her husband, her two-year-old son, and eight-year-old daughter with her and they are together all the time. When they aren’t together in the hotel room, or out exploring the city as a family, the children are accompanying her to rehearsals and meetings. The line between family life and home life is so blurred as to be nonexistent, and Pink says it herself: she never gets to walk out one door (home) and into another door (work) in her life. Her daughter zooms around rehearsals on her hoverboard and her son shrieks with glee as the backup dancers take turns tossing him in the air.
I think any parent would agree that having your children always with you is both lovely and terrible at the same time. There must have been a nanny they kept off screen because otherwise I don’t understand how Pink can focus on learning the choreography while also preventing her son from throwing himself off the edge of the stage. It’s clear her husband takes on a lot, but there was at least one scene in which she left for rehearsals with both her kids in tow and her husband stayed back at the hotel.
I am impressed with her ability to balance these two things, but I felt exhausted just watching her.
Amazon Prime Video describes this documentary as “bold” and “cerebral.” Pink herself may be both of those things but this documentary is not. They only give a few moments for Pink to share her insights on work, motherhood, passion, and the passage of time in human years. I would have enjoyed more of this and less of the two-year-old attempting to fling himself off the stage during rehearsals.
I won’t watch this one again but I enjoyed it. Best for people interested in backstage life and fans of Pink.