Try This
Studio album by Pink
Released	November 11, 2003 (2003-11-11)
Recorded	2002–2003
Genre	Pop rock & roll
Length	51:52
Label	Arista
Producer	Tim Armstrong Billy Mann Jonathan S. Davis Damon Elliott John Fields William Orbit Linda Perry
Pink chronology
Missundaztood (2001) Try This (2003) I'm Not Dead (2006)
Singles from Try This
"Trouble" Released: September 29, 2003 "God Is a DJ" Released: November 17, 2003 "Last to Know" Released: April 13, 2004

Try This is the third studio album by American singer Pink, released on November 11, 2003, by Arista Records. Wanting to expand more on the rock sound, which she explored on her previous record, Missundaztood, for Try This Pink collaborated with punk band Rancid's singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong, and reunited with Linda Perry, who produced most of the Missundaztood album. As a result of this collaboration, Try This is a rock and roll and pop record, with lyrics exploring such themes as love, separation, fun.

Try This received generally favorable reviews from music critics. However, retrospectively Pink herself expressed dissatisfaction with the record. She said that she was unhappy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of M!ssundaztood. Commercially, the album reached top ten in thirteen countries, including US Billboard 200, where it peaked at number nine, UK, where it reached number three, and Canada, where Try This peaked at number eight. It was certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA for shipments of over one million copies.

Three singles were released from the record. The lead single, "Trouble", reached top ten in Australia, Canada, UK, and many European countries. Single earned Pink her second Grammy Award, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance on 2004 show. "God Is a DJ" and "Last to Know", second and third singles respectively, were moderately successful in European charts. However, all of the album singles failed to reach success in US. Some of the album editions also includes single "Feel Good Time" from soundtrack for the movie Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Pink supported the album with the Try This Tour in 2004 across Europe and Australia. The live recording of the Manchester show was released in 2006, titled as Pink: Live in Europe.

Background and composition

After the success of Missundaztood (2001) and its accompanying worldwide Party Tour, Pink began work on her third studio album. Wanting to expand more on the rock sound she explored with Missundaztood, Pink 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 Pink met through a mutual friend at a Transplants video shoot. The two hit it off and Pink 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 Missundaztood, Pink's second album. The album includes a collaboration with electroclash artist Peaches, "Oh My God", and Pink's contribution to the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle film soundtrack, "Feel Good Time" (produced by and featuring William Orbit), as a non-U.S. bonus track.

Try This was Pink's final studio album under Arista Records. In 2006, Pink 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.'"^[1] 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."^[1] Try This is Pink'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 & roll album,^[2] which incorporates elements of punk rock ("Trouble"),^[3] R&B ("Catch Me While I'm Sleeping", "Love Song"),^[4][5] new wave and disco ("Humble Neighborhoods").^[3]

Promotion

Singles

The album's first single, "Trouble", a song Armstrong original wrote for his band Rancid in 2003, reached number two in Canada and the top ten in the UK and Australia, but it peaked only at number 68 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In 2003, "Catch Me While I'm Sleeping" was issued as a promotional single in the U.S.;^[6] in the same period, a promo CD-R acetate of "Humble Neighborhoods" was made available in the UK.^[7] Follow-up single "God Is a DJ" failed to chart on the Hot 100, although it reached number 11 in the UK. A third single, "Last to Know", was released exclusively in Europe and peaked at 21 in the UK.

Tour

Pink embarked on the Try This Tour in Europe during 2004, and a DVD chronicling the tour was released in 2006. "Trouble" was used in the films White Chicks (2004), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) as well as the first theatrical trailer for Tangled, and "God Is a DJ" was featured in the film Mean Girls (2004).

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[9]
The Guardian	[5]
NME	6/10[10]
Q	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
Slant Magazine	[3]
Spin	B[13]
Stylus Magazine	B[14]

The album received almost entirely positive reviews from critics with an average Metacritic rating of 71, indicating generally positive reviews.^[8] However, there were some negative reviews, with New York magazine stating "Pink pitches a brand of seriousness that is pure Lifetime-TV mawkishness", and The Guardian commented that "Like a lot of pop at the moment, it just sounds like a wan imitation of Pink's second album". Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review and called it "A hooky, engaging throwaway that expands Pink's range while holding on fiercely to her irascible inner child."

Commercial performance

Try This debuted at number nine on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 147,000 copies, a weaker debut than that of Missundaztood.^[15] The album also reached the top ten on album charts in the UK, Canada and Australia. As of March 2007, it had sold 719,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[16] Try This re-entered the Australian album chart in June 2009.^[17]

Track listing

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.^[21]

Charts

Certifications