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Find out which P!nk song was previously intended for Adam Lambert

Songwriter Mike Busbee has revealed that he wanted to give P!nk's 'Try' to Adam Lambert before the singer snapped it up.

P!nk released the song in 2012 and it managed to reach No.9 on the US singles chart.

In a new interview with Songwriter Universe, Busbee said the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Lambert could have had the song before P!nk.

However, it didn't work out for the singers.

He said: "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.

"Eventually, I had to call Rani and go, 'Hey, what are we doing with this song?' She’s like, 'Do you mind if I keep it a little bit longer and pitch it to Pink?' Of course; go for it!

"She played it at a label meeting, and the head of the label heard it and flipped out. I’ve been told he pitched Pink a bunch of ideas for this track that she’s supposed to do with Eminem.

"He pitched her 'Try' and she took 'Try' and she didn’t take any of the other ones. It was one of the first outside songs she had recorded in a long time. She’s an amazing artist, and for her to take an outside song - a lot of people aren’t willing to do that stuff, but she was."

Speaking on Twitter after the interview came out, Kelly Clarkson suggested that she never got a chance to listen to 'Try'.

She wrote: "Well crap haha, I wish RCA would have actually shown me the song! BUT it ended up with right artist, she's rad!"

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