Pink

The teenbeat star smarter than the rest deals an album that, as the title suggests, dares you to keep up. The hard rock R&B of M!ssundaztood is back, but Pink also delves into punk, Euro-dance, ska and just about anything else, making Try This as challenging as a pop record can be -- and just as fun.

In her own way, Pink is more punk than what passes for punk these days. First she was a
white R&B singer at a time when black radio had closed its doors to white artists. Then she
turned her back on that world, going rock & roll with Dallas Austin, a mainstream R&B
producer, and Linda Perry, a lesbian rocker dismissed as a has-been when her group 4 Non
Blondes split. Pink's multiplatinum 2001 breakthrough, Missundaztood, was a bold,... More >

"It's people like us who make me sick"--well said, and a bad sign ("Humble Neighborhoods," "Save My Life"). (Grade - **)