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Artist:

PINK

Title:

Try This

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Catalog No:

CDAST 455

Genre:

Pop / Rock

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R49.95

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Biography

Pink has certainly earned the right to do whatever she damn well pleases. Her 2000 début album, Can't Take Me Home was certified platinum. Her second, Missundaztood, catapulted her to international prominence and brought her massive critical acclaim.

But when it came time to record her third album, Try This, Pink wasn't about to just hit repeat. "Last time, everyone thought I was crazy. I was completely changing directions and I didn't have a lot of support on my side until halfway through the album. This time I could do whatever I wanted. I was gonna do death metal opera, but it didn't really work out," she jokes.

Pink used the creative freedom she fought so hard for on Missundaztood to reinvent herself once again on Try This. And while Missundaztood could have been ripped from a chapter of Pink's personal diary, Try This reveals a more liberated, looser artist. "Missundaztood was a very deep, lyrical expression. It was therapy. This album isn't so heavy," she explains. "Instead of writing only about myself, I worked in stories about a lot of different people."

Pushing herself even further creatively and embracing her rocker roots, Pink found the missing piece to her musical puzzle in the form of a mohawked Californian punk rocker: Rancid's Tim Armstrong. "We wrote 10 songs in a week," Pink says. "I went out on tour with him and the Foo Fighters. I slept on the bus with them and we recorded a lot of the songs in the back of the bunk."

"Trouble", the album's raw, raucous first single, was penned by Pink and Armstrong, who shares writing credits with Pink on ten cuts and produced the bulk of Try This. It's a no-holds-barred rock anthem that Pink declares is "more than just an attitude song." Not that the cut doesn't have plenty of attitude. You better believe it when she sings, "I'm trouble/If you see me coming down the street/ You know it's time to go."