"I Try" is the second single from Macy Gray's debut album On How Life Is, released in 1999 internationally, but not becoming a hit in the United States until 2000. It was Gray's biggest hit to date. It peaked at number seven in the UK, number five in the US and number one in both Australia and New Zealand.

At the 2000 Grammy Awards Gray won the "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "I Try", and was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

"I Try" was released in the UK on two CD singles including remixes and the non-album b-side, "Don't Come Around".