Ariel Pink is firmly in control of Haunted Graffiti
It's his band — even if he quit it once. And he takes full responsibility for it.
By Simon Reynolds, Special to the Los Angeles Times
June 6, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-ariel-pink-20100601,0,5202710.storyPerhaps because he has two sisters and because of his parents' divorce, Pink seems to identify with womankind. He has an androgynous quality reminiscent of glam icon Marc Bolan and plays with gender in his songs. Throughout the interview he threads his fingers through his long, fine hair in a nervous, girlish way. In the video for the killer tune "For Kate I Wait" from "The Doldrums," he wears a dress.
And "Before Today's" "Menopause Man" is a transgender anthem whose lyrics beseech "make me maternal, fertile woman" and vow "I'm changing today/ I'm a lady from today." Pink says, "I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man. I look in the mirror sometimes and think, 'Wow, you're a beautiful woman.'" He smiles wryly and adds, "Of course, it's very male to think like that."
