Pink

Pink is twenty-year-old Alecia Moore's hair dye of choice and, for that matter, her skin
color. She's got a dazzling, gymnastic R&B voice, without a hint of style that's all her own.
Her debut has one awesome single in "There You Go," whose wronged-woman sass is set to
a stop-start groove so bling-bling it redeems a chorus that ends, "Sometimes it be's like
that." Beyond that, though, every melismatic groan, every clipped harmony, eve... More >

Armed with a Day-Glo dye job and some ace Babyface subcontracts, a tough talker diddles teenpop's love button. In a world where the half-word "sh-" teeters on the edge of going too far, she and hers bet-correctly-that a simple "I'm pissed" will pack a wallop, and work from there. When she admits to the loss of her slurred "cherry" in the finale, you can only wonder how sexy she'll be when she shows pink for real. (Grade: B+)