Try (Nelly Furtado song)

Single infobox |
Name = Try
Artist = Nelly Furtado


from Album = Folklore
Format = CD single, digital download, maxi single, 12" single
Released = March 15 2004
Writer = Nelly Furtado, Brian West
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Pop, ballad
Length = 4:38
Label = DreamWorks
Producer = Track & Field
Last single = "Powerless (Say What You Want)"
(2003)
This single = "Try"
(2004)
Next single = "Força"
(2004)
Misc =Audiosample
Upper caption = Music sample
Name = Try
Audio file= Try sample.ogg

"Try" is a pop ballad written by Canadian singer Nelly Furtado and Brian West for Furtado's second album, "Folklore" (2003). Produced by Track & Field, it was released as the second single from the album in February 2004.

Furtado said the song "is about the reality of love. My energy used to just go everywhere, but now I'm more grounded because I've found true love. The idea here is that, yeah, sometimes life sucks. But life is only so long, and somebody can come along who makes you want to be a better person. You just have to roll with the punches. So "Try" is not a happy-go-lucky song. It has a strange arrangement because the chorus happens only twice, and the end is improvisational. It's like one of those epic power ballads." The "Los Angeles Times" said of "Try", "Her unfettered enthusiasm wins out as she sings of passion for life".

Commercial release

Although the single was a big success in countries such as Mexico and Portugal (where it peaked at number one), it did not chart in the United States. "Try" was the last single released from "Folklore" in the U.S.; the subsequent singles were released only in Canada, Europe and Latin America. "Try" was Furtado's first song to chart on the Latin America Top 40; it debuted in the week that the chart was created at number thirty-one, peaking twelve weeks later at number seventeen.

Two versions of the song exist; the original with the chorus only occurring twice, and a different version in which the improv is taken out at the end and an extra chorus is added. A Spanish version, "Dar", was released in 2007.

Music video

The music video was directed by Sophie Muller. The music video features Nelly and a male actor (who is assumed to be her husband) in traditional Portuguese dress, around the Settler time period. It shows their various hardships, and in one scene Nelly is seen tying lover's knots to the underside of the couple's bedsprings, which is assumed to be an infertility cure from folklore.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Try.";UK CD single
#"Try" (radio edit)
#"I'm like a Bird" (acoustic live on New Ground)
#"Try" (acoustic version)
#"Try" (video)

;U.S. CD single
#"Try" (Radio Edit)
#"I'm like a Bird" (Acoustic Live On New Ground)
#"Powerless (Say What You Want)" (video)

;Australian Single [ [http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/furtado_nelly/albums.jhtml?albumId=756376 Try [Australia CD | Album Track Listing | MTV ] ]
# "Try" (Radio Edit)
# "I'm Like a Bird" (Live Acoustic)
# "Try" (Acoustic Version)
# "Try" (Album Version)

Remixes

* "Try" (Gabriel & Dresden Remix) (8:01)
* "Try" (Gabriel & Dresden Dub)
* "Try" (Tony Moran Mix) (8:01)
* "Try" (Unknown Remix)
* "Try" (Kronos Quartet Remix)
* "Try" (Sweetwesty Remix; featuring Kronos Quartet) (4:39)

Other versions

* "Try" (Radio Edit) (3:49)
* "Try" (Video Edit)
* "Try" (Radio Version) (3:46)
* "Try" (Acoustic Version) (4:35)
* "Try" (Instrumental Version) (4:13)
* "Try" (Karaoke Version)
* "Try" (Dreamin Cover)

Charts

References

External links

*Youtube|NehWoLIMEmM|"Try" music video