I Try

"I Try"
Single by Macy Gray
from the album On How Life Is
B-side	"Don't Come Around" "Rather Hazy"
Released	July 23, 1999 (1999-07-23)
Studio	Paramount, Sunset Sound, A&M (Hollywood, California)
Genre	Neo soul[1]
Length	3:59
Label	Epic Clean Slate
Composer(s)	Macy Gray Jeremy Ruzumna Jinsoo Lim David Wilder
Lyricist(s)	Macy Gray
Producer(s)	Andrew Slater
Macy Gray singles chronology
"Do Something" (1999) "I Try" (1999) "Still" (2000)
Music video
"I Try" on YouTube

"I Try" is a song co-written and performed by American musician Macy Gray. Issued as the second single from her debut album, On How Life Is (1999), the song was first released in Japan as a double A-side with "Do Something" on July 23, 1999. Later that year, on September 27, it received its first solo release in the United Kingdom. "I Try" is Gray's most successful single, peaking at number six in the United Kingdom, number five in the United States, number two in Canada, and number one in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. At the 2001 Grammy Awards, "I Try" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.