NY, Nov 10: After raising eyebrows with her previous album, Pink makes it even clearer with her new disc that fans should expect the unexpected. Her third album, "Try This," finds the singer again ignoring the rules often guiding today's young female pop stars -- at her own peril.
The first single from her latest effort, "Trouble," faltered at radio, reaching only No. 16 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart. The song rests at No. 31 this week. Her previous album yielded four top five singles. Still, the artist is unperturbed.
"I'd rather fall down for what I believe in and for what makes me tick. Is that smart?" the singer asks. "Who knows. Might not be. But there's still some fear in me -- I want to be understood, I want to be heard."
Due Tuesday (Nov. 11) on Arista, "Try This" features numerous collaborations with Tim Armstrong, frontman with punk torchbearers Rancid. Electro-raunch queen Peaches also does a guest turn.
Conventional wisdom would argue that a better way exists to maintain and build on a mainstream, top 40-driven career than working with a punk rocker and a dance artist known mostly for X-rated jams. Pink, 24, acknowledges that her collaborations are commercially risky, but she says she must keep having fun and following her muse wherever it leads. Bureau Report