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Is this some new info? About the song 'Try' from P!nk!



www.songwriteruniverse.com/busbee-songwriter-interview-123.htm

BC: You’ve done really well on the pop side. One of your hits was Pink’s “Try.” What’s the story behind that song?

busbee: That was entirely unique in that I literally woke up one day with 95% of that chorus in my head. I’m not the kind of writer, for whatever reason, who says I’m about to go to sleep and I can’t sleep because I have all these ideas that I have to get out. That’s not really how I function. I love music! It’s like blood, air, water—it’s part of me. I don’t have a notebook next to my bed or any of that kind of stuff. I don’t really carry a Dictaphone.

This idea came into my head. I didn’t know what it was. What is this I’m singing? (laughs) I picked up a phone and literally worked on it for five minutes and finished the chorus. Wow! That’s kind of cool. I like that.

Then, I played it for a friend of mine, Ben West. He and I were doing a project for some television placements with a band, GoNorthtoGoSouth. He’s a crazy talented guy who lives in Detroit. He’s a writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, mixer and engineer. I played it for him. “Do you like this?” He’s like, “I love it!” I said, “Let’s do it!”

I flew to Detroit just to write those four songs, one a day for four days. We were all filming a video for some promo stuff, so I had another friend of mine show up. We planned for him to come the day we wrote “Try” because we had the chorus. Let’s flush out the verses and have him record while we’re doing that, so we can have footage behind the scene. We have all the raw footage of us writing the whole song. It’s really kind of unique. That hardly ever happens. We wrote it, and I turned it into my publishing company. They loved it. Eventually, my manager and one of my publishers at the time pitched it to a friend of ours, Rani Hancock, who was (an A&R exec) at RCA at the time. Originally, we were going to try to get it on Kelly Clarkson. There was talk of Daughtry doing it. I actually recorded it on Adam Lambert, but it just wasn’t the right fit.

Eventually, I had to call Rani and go, “Hey, what are we doing with this song?” She’s like, “Do you mind if I keep it a little bit longer and pitch it to Pink?” Of course; go for it! She played it at a label meeting, and the head of the label heard it and flipped out. I’ve been told he pitched Pink a bunch of ideas for this track that she’s supposed to do with Eminem. He pitched her “Try,” and she took “Try” and she didn’t take any of the other ones. It was one of the first outside songs she had recorded in a long time. She’s an amazing artist, and for her to take an outside song—a lot of people aren’t willing to do that stuff, but she was.