This video isn’t easy to watch, frankly. You’ll see what I mean as you get into it. But ‘Perfect’ has a clear message: growing up is difficult, but we need to embrace and love ourselves.

Everyone is different. Perhaps none of us feel like we truly belong to the “in” crowd, particularly while we are growing up. And being different is not only okay, it’s a good thing. And when we learn that “Yes, I’m different,” then we can perhaps embrace that about ourselves and learn to funnel that into something productive. In the case of the girl in the video, she funneled it into art.

MTV praised Pink for the video, saying it’s a “moving call to awareness about a growing problem surrounding depression, numbness and powerlessness that leads to cutting and suicide. Her intention, as usual, is to ruffle a few feathers and shake a few sleepers as she points out ‘You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.'”

Pink certainly isn’t afraid of ruffling a few feathers, although unlike artists like Miley Cyrus, she doesn’t do it for the sake of nothing more than publicity.

Singer Pink poses as she attends the Stella McCartney Ready-to-Wear A/W 2009 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week at Carreau du Temple on March 9, 2009 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage.com)