I Try Is Cool and All, But

Macy Gray & Nicole Scherzinger * Track #10 On Covered

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ALBUM

Macy Gray

2012

I Try Is Cool and All, But by Macy Gray (Ft. Nicole Scherzinger)

Release Date

Mon Mar 26 2012

Performed by

Macy GrayNicole Scherzinger

About

This skit features Nicole Scherzinger, one of Macy’s friends, trying to convince Macy to change her singing voice to sound more like other artists.

Using her skill of impersonating other singers, Nicole sings “I Try” as Britney Spears, Alanis Morissette, and Shakira to help get the point across.

I Try Is Cool and All, But Lyrics

[Nicole Scherzinger & Macy Gray]
Macy, look, as your friend, I care about you and you just need to try new things, you know. (Mm-hmm.) You need to, like, discover new sounds. (Uh-huh.) Vocal sounds. (Uh huh.) To be the best artist that you could be, like (Uh-huh.) well-rounded, like Britney Spears

“I Try” is cool and all, but (Uh huh.) it’d be a cool twist, like a fresh spin on it (Uh-huh.) if you was like…

[Nicole Scherzinger, singing as Britney Spears]

I try to say goodbye and I choke, uh. I try to walk away and I [messes up words] fall — stumble

[Macy Gray]
Oh, right, right! Right

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Mmm

[Macy Gray & Nicole Scherzinger]
Do you got any other suggestions? Besides (Yeah. You know who…) change my voice

[Nicole Scherzinger & Nicole Scherzinger]
…was like (Mmm?) was…like…she's. That Jagged Little Pill album is crazy

[Macy Gray]
Oh!

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Alanis Morrissette

[Macy Gray]
Oh

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Like, and then you'll like…all the Canadian fans will love you even more

[Macy Gray]
Right! That's what I need, I need Canada

[Nicole Scherzinger]
You need Canada and she's amazing, like, she been havin' that break in her voice, like (Uh huh.) you could…you could…you should have that more

[Macy Gray]
Oh! The break in my voice

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Yeah

[Macy Gray]
Mm hmm

[Nicole Scherzinger]
And then, when you, like, sing…

[Nicole Scherzinger, singing as Alanis Morisette]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I try

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Like, you know, like that

[Macy Gray]
Oh, right. Right. So, change my voice

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Yeah, you probably shouldn't even sing (That's—) your own song. You should just sing her song 'cause it's (Oh.) … her song is a lot stronger. Yeah

[Macy Gray]
Do you have any, like, good suggestions?

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Um…
You gotta add, like, some of them Shakira flavors

[Macy Gray]
Oh, right

[Nicole Scherzinger]
Like…

[Nicole Scherzinger, singing as Shakira]
I try. I try to walk away. To walk away

[Macy Gray]
Oh

[Nicole Scherzinger, singing as Shakira]
But I stumble. Da da da da de da di

I Try Is Cool and All, But Q&A

Who wrote I Try Is Cool and All, But's ?

I Try Is Cool and All, But was written by Hal Willner & Nicole Scherzinger & Macy Gray.