Pink and Channing Tatum challenge gender roles (and dance in drag) in a 1950s-inspired music video

With matching his-and-hers sleep masks, a painfully pink household and a monotonous relationship, Pink and Channing Tatum appear the quintessential couple from the 1950s in the music video (above) for Beautiful Trauma.

The pair play Fred Astaire and Ginger Roberts as they go through the grind of daily life playing conventional gender roles – the man sits at the table while the wife cooks and cleans – before breaking up the boredom with a conventional-looking dance routine. But Pink is not exactly the personification of a Stepford wife. Quite the opposite.

Using cheeky steps and a subversive cross-dressing sequence – a dance in drag – the couple ultimately defies stereotypes, delivering a joyful slap on the face of gender roles.