I Try Is Cool and All, But

[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