When Pink played the Oracle Arena here for two sold out dates of her Beautiful Trauma tour earlier this month, management came up with an ingenious idea: They converted several men’ rooms into womens’ bathrooms. OK, “converted” may be too strong; Oracle simply taped a women’s sign over the men’s sign. Efficacy was therefore limited (urinals continued to outnumber stalls), but the move at least demonstrated an awareness of the demographics of Pink’s fan base. I’d estimate 80 percent of the assembled were women.

As befits a rock star of remarkable longevity—she had her first solo hit in early 2000—Pink has a fan base that has aged along with her. Given that she still pumps out massive hits—this year’s “What About Us” was one of her biggest ever—I came to this show expecting the screaming teenyboppers who keep Top 40 radio alive. Instead the crowd was largely middle aged, with a few families thrown in. Pink remains incredibly popular: Her two dates here sold out within minutes, and I was relegated to the nosebleeds with tickets that I secured, exorbitantly expensively, on the “secondary market.”