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It’s ultimately toothless.
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Ultimately there's something very 80s about Pink. Something very kitsch and plastic; something very 'Breakfast Club'.
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Armstrong... gives it a welcome sense of cohesion.
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The areas where Try This falls down are those where P!nk eschews the eclecticism of the stronger tracks and instead produces bog-standard pop-punk or R&B tracks.
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While Pink's peers take incremental, cautious artistic steps forward, she's slyly fearless, choosing the right collaborators that help her create pop music that has both style and substance to spare.
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'Try This' is quite the album - most things to all people, touched by audacious greatness, and as fine an advert for imperfectionism as we could've demanded.
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After Missundaztood, her choices were to repeat herself or to try more material outside her realm of expertise. She does a little of both on Try This, with mixed results.
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Like a lot of pop at the moment, it just sounds like a wan imitation of Pink's second album.
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A hooky, engaging throwaway that expands Pink's range while holding on fiercely to her irascible inner child.
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Some of it sounds similar, but Pink sticks to her guns on relationship tunes ("Last to Know"), decent dance-floor jams ("Trouble," "God Is a DJ") and tougher rockers ("Try Too Hard").
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Try This dares Pink's huge but hardly guaranteed audience to hear the world her way--without wasting one moment on indulgent experimentation, rote grandstanding, or retreats into conformism.
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As unlikely as the collaboration [with Tim Armstrong] looked on paper, it works perfectly because the Pennsylvania native has always brandished a punk sneer beneath the corsets, gaudy hair color, and naughty girl demeanor.
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Pink's delivery says more than her often wince-inducing lyrics, but it means enough to make Try This an engagingly revealing album.
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Pink pitches a brand of seriousness that is pure Lifetime-TV mawkishness.
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BlenderThe only thing missing is a killer pop hit to follow "Get the Pary Started." [Nov 2003, p.120]
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Q MagazineUnlike other wannabes, Pink shares Madonna's two best assets: a keen eye for the next collaborator to further her cause and the ability to sound like Pink no matter what shape her cause takes. [Dec 2003, p.133]
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MojoTop heavy with gleeful dysfunctional relationship songs, though eventually stalling via forgettable '80s rock mediocrity. [Dec 2003, p.109]
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SpinCloser in spirit to Rancid's bighearted radio punk than to anything Pink has put her name on before--all scrappy power chords and wounded warmth. [Jan 2004, p.97]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 70 out of 90
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Mixed: 9 out of 90
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Negative: 11 out of 90
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cowssJul 4, 2004Her first 2 were better, this one is ok
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Nov 25, 2021TRY THIS is another amazing album by the great Pink, her lyrics and vocals here are very good
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Nov 25, 2021I love Pink's rock edge, she is such an amazing and powerful singer, her music is gold