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Release Date
8 October 2003
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Length
14 tracks
Try This is the third studio album by American singer P!nk, released on November 11, 2003 by Arista.
After the success of M!ssundaztood (2001) and its accompanying worldwide Party Tour, P!nk began work on her third studio album. Wanting to expand more on the rock sound she explored with her previous album, she sought out producers and writers that had experience within the genre. Most of the tracks on Try This were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong, whom P!nk met through a mutual friend at a Transplants video shoot. The two hit it off and P!nk ended up co-writing ten songs with him in a week when Transplants were on a tour with the Foo Fighters. Eight of these tracks appeared on Try This, which also features three songs written with Linda Perry, who co-wrote much of M!ssundaztood, P!nk's second album. The album includes a collaboration with electroclash artist Peaches, "Oh My God", and P!nk's contribution to the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle film soundtrack, "Feel Good Time" (produced by and featuring William Orbit), as international bonus track.
Try This was P!nk's final studio album under Arista Records. In 2006, the singer said that she was unhappy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of M!ssundaztood. "I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one," she said. "I was going: 'You want a record? Fine, I'll write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin' record and you can press it up and put it out.'" She described the promotional campaign for the album as "an awful time. I was walking out of half my interviews crying. I just felt they were putting a quarter in the slot to watch the monkey dance." Try This is P!nk's first album to carry a Parental Advisory warning, and therefore her first album released alongside an edited version. The font used throughout the album's artwork is the same that was used for then label-mates Ace of Base's Cruel Summer single.
Musically, Try This is a pop/rock n roll album, which incorporates elements of punk rock ("Trouble"), R&B ("Catch Me While I'm Sleeping", "Love Song"), new wave and disco ("Humble Neighborhoods").
To support the album, "Trouble", "God is a DJ", and "Last to Know" were released as singles, the former of which won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Try This was eventually certified Platinum in the US and Europe for 1,000,000 copies sold in each region. Between February 19, 2004 and August 22, 2004, P!nk embarked on the Try This Tour across Europe and Australia, with a total of 68 shows.
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