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Try This
11/05/2003 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Dan Leroy
Try This is the sound of genre-hopping diva Pink trying the one thing she hasn't in her brief and cluttered career: consistency. That sounds like a death wish for an artist whose appeal depends on contrariness, but in fact, Pink has simply found the punk energy to match her bratty ethic, courtesy of Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong, who co-wrote most of this album and gives it a welcome sense of cohesion. Raw guitars mesh effortlessly with dance beats on middle-finger waving anthems like "Trouble" and "Tonight's The Night," which are miles ahead of the likeminded efforts on Pink's mixed-up Missundaztood, and further benefit from Armstrong's scruffy but generally unerring pop sense. The downside is that the few remaining attempts at diversity seem unpleasantly out of place: Pink sounds woefully miscast as an adult-soul balladeer on "Catch Me While I'm Sleepin'," one of three collaborations with Linda Perry, while the much-anticipated face off with electro bad girl Peaches, "Oh My God," ends up a heavy breathing mess. But if "God Is A DJ," he'll put that piece of punky disco perfection, and several other tunes here, in heavy rotation immediately.
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