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
I'm not shocked at all. When it came out, I remember I kept confusing it and Dark Side by Kelly on the radio all the time
I agree. It feels very similar to Dark Side. Both are produced by Greg Kurstin so maybe that's why. Personally I feel like Dark Side is a better song so it baffles me that Dark Side wasn't a bigger hit. It was really overshadowed by the constant radio play of Stronger.
I mean I like DS, but yeah, Try is better