Is
Aviate navigate communicate being forgotten again?
Do as you need to do to fly your aircraft safely.
Worry about ATC once you have the aircraft cleaned up and your shirt tucked in
Bit easier for the boys in multi crew ops but I'm assuming this question was from a single pilot point of view?
Once flying into a large international airport whilst flying a piston twin I was held at 2000 feet until 3 mile then given a clearance to land. I tried, but with a high ROD and increasing AS and it not looking to crash hot from short final I initiated a go around. (at night after 7 hours of single pilot IFR) I had the tower going bananas trying to chew my ear off and giving me paragraphs of read backs. I just told 'em to stand by, got to the circuit height (visual at night) and made contact. (they subsuequently held me forever until giving me another go though)