The Try This tour was Pink’s second headlining tour. It started in Dublin, Ireland, and went to cities all over Europe. The tour then went to Australia, before coming back to Europe for festivals in the summer.
Can’t Take Me Home
There You Go
Split Personality
Most Girls
Lady Marmalade (contains excerpts from Beautiful)I Wanna Rock
Don’t Let Me Get Me
18 Wheeler
Family Portrait
Just like a Pill
Respect
Medley: My Vietnam / Misery / Eventually
Medley: Summertime / Me and Bobby McGee / Piece of My Heart
The song earned positive reports from music critics, but most gave sensitively mixed reviews upon her self-hating lyrical content. Robert Christgau in his consumer guide for MSN wrote that “Despite Pink’s audacious claim that she’s not as pretty as ‘damn Britney Spears,’ celebrity anxiety takes a backseat to a credible personal pain rooted in credible family travails, a pain held at bay by expression.” Jim Farber of Entertainment Weekly wrote that “In Don’t Let Me Get Me, she turns self-loathing into a perverse kind of anthem.”
Jason Thompson of PopMatters wrote, “on the power rock of ‘Don’t Let Me Get Me,’ Pink herself tells it like it is and attempts to break free from the image making machine. ‘Tired of being compared / To damn Britney Spears / She’s so pretty / That just ain’t me.’ Well, that’s debatable in itself, but the fact that Pink takes it upon herself to call Spears out should be nothing short of revelatory. Spears certainly has nothing on Pink in the vocal department. Pink can actually sing. And damn well, mind you.”
Jim Alexander wrote a negative review, saying that the rest of Missundaztood is full of bad songs and that “‘Don’t Let Me Get Me’ and ‘Dear Diary’ see all pop joy expunged for acoustic seriousness, dreary unobtrusive beats and lyrics about relationship woes and record company badness.”
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