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.”
Today, Sunday 8th February 2015, marks 15 years since Pink’s debut single There You Go was released. (Click HERE to read the blog post on this event)
To celebrate this milestone in Pink’s career, I have spent the last few months working on something, as a gift from one Pink fan to others around the world, Pink History’s gift to you all is….
I have created a site with all of Pink’s lyrics, separated into different sections, with video links to almost all the songs.
Please check out the website, there is also a lyrics page on this website HERE which will take you to the lyrics site (so you don’t need to bookmark both if you don’t want to!)
I hope you enjoy the site, and here’s to the next 15 years worth of songs!
On This Day in Pink History… 8th February 2000, There You Go was released
There You Go is Pink’s debut single from her debut album, Can’t Take Me Home. The song, written by Pink, Kandi Burruss and Kevin “She’kspere” Briggs, was released in the United States in February 2000. The song is noted for the longest consecutive debut at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and never peaking at No. 1, staying at No. 2 for ten consecutive weeks.
The single peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 2 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and number 6 on the UK Singles Chart. In Australia it was credited Platinum with sales of over 70,000.
Allmusic highlighted the song. Rob Brunner compared: “Briggs’s ‘There You Go’ is remarkably similar to his hits for Destiny’s Child (‘Bills, Bills, Bills’) and TLC (‘No Scrubs’) but minus the vocal interplay that gives those tunes their punch.” MTV Asia wrote that this song is an edgy cut that haves all that it takes to top the charts. Rolling Stone was also positive: “Her debut has one awesome single in ‘There You Go’, whose wronged-woman sass is set to a stop-start groove so bling-bling it redeems a chorus that ends, ‘Sometimes it be’s like that.'” Complex magazine named it the 11th best R&B song by a white singer in 2000s.
In the music video, Pink’s ex-boyfriend calls her asking for a ride, and she reluctantly agrees to give him one. Pink hops on a motorcycle and rides to the top of a parking structure overlooking her ex’s apartment, where she calls him on her cell. She then accelerates her motorcycle, jumps off at the last second, and watches as it soars off the building and crashes into his apartment window before exploding into flames. Pink then jumps into a car driven by a new guy, giving her ex the middle finger as they drive off. The Entertainment Weekly editor described the video with the following: “In the video for ‘There You Go’ — her smash single — the piqued Pink freaks, sending a motorcycle crashing into Floyd’s fab bachelor pad.”
On This Day in Pink History… 13th February 2001, You Make Me Sick was released
You Make Me Sick, written by Brainz Dimilo, Anthony President and Mark Tabb, was the third and final single from Pink’s first album, Can’t Take Me Home. It peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. It peaked at number 25 in Australia where it sold 35,000 copies and was accredited Gold
On This Day in Pink History... 