In her ‘village,’ Pink is still Pink

Pink’s latest album is a who’s who of pop and rock royalty.

The singer recruited a slew of music A-listers as co-writers and featured singers on her eighth album, “Hurts 2B Human,” released Friday, including Beck, Sia, Chris Stapleton, Khalid, Julia Michaels, Max Martin, and Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds.

“Opportunities kept coming up for me to work with all these incredible people, and I think that’s what this record is all about: the village it took to create it,” says Pink, who is still touring in support of her last album, 2017’s “Beautiful Trauma.” “I thought maybe I’d just put out an EP for the fans, but then it started steamrolling into this whole new project.”

But even with more cooks in the kitchen, Pink, 39, hasn’t lost her knack for raw, vulnerable anthems about relationships and self-empowerment. In fact, “Hurts 2B Human” might feature some of her most personal songs to date. “Circle Game,” named for Joni Mitchell’s 1970 ballad, is a tribute to her father, Jim Moore, who is in remission from cancer.

“I’m at that age where a lot of my friends are losing their parents and it’s a really painful thing to go through,” Pink says. “(The song) is about growing up and still feeling like that little girl, waiting for my dad to fix my problems and realizing that’s not the way it is anymore. And now that I have children, it just changes when you look at your kids. I’m like, ‘Wow, I’m your person.’ There’s a beautiful weight in that that just makes you reflect.”

Her dad also partly inspired “Can We Pretend,” which bemoans getting older and imagines a world without – among other things – President Donald Trump. (“Can we pretend that we both like the president?” she sings in the chorus.)

“I think he’s a joke,” Pink says. “I think it’s also a joke how divided we’ve all become, and he’s been a catalyst for division. Look, I was raised by a Vietnam vet, Air Force person who had me marching on Washington since I was 3 years old. I believe in patriotism being that you defend your ideals. We have one of the worst leaders that this country has ever had, so you have to speak out about it.”

She’s not content to stay in her lane,