Reasons to Love Colbie Caillat and 'Try'

'You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing

You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try'.......

Seven years after her debut with the hit song “Bubbly,” Caillat is still so bubbly and Infectious and Beautiful. She’s different. She seems to understand where we’re at. As a girl from Malibu, she’s a girl after my own heart. She’s seen, like I have, the skinny girls we ogle at the pool or at clubs, one part awe of how perfect they look, one part jealous because you don’t look like that. She’s witnessed, like we all have, the double standards society places on body image. Caillat just knows how to make the listener feel good.

Every song by Caillat is so positive. It’s not prudish or naive, it is clean. It is happy. She seems like a woman who isn’t bogged down by people’s perceptions of her, she stands up for herself and for what is right. Her music speaks just that.

She is someone who has a Universal appeal. Her songs skew females for sure, but so many of my guy friends sing her songs, Bubbly for instance. Her concerts are full of people of all ages, right from kids to the youth to young married couples, middle-aged couples, crazy jamming women in their 40s, also old people. What other pop artists can say the same about their shows?

She has a steadily rising stock. She delivers slowly and steadily, like a good investment and puts a lot of thought into her work. For example, Caillat recently came out with the song “Try”, it reminds us that beauty comes from within and radiates out through our being.

She repeatedly asks the question Do you like you?

Because, that is what is important. If your answer is a Yes, Congratulations; you've achieved Self-Acceptance.

However, for most of us, however, it doesn't come as easily. We wish that our boobs were bigger, or that our butt were rounder, our stomach flatter, our legs longer, our skin clearer… the list goes on and on. It’s so easy to it is so easy to long for what we do not have and ignore what we have. And that’s only the physical aspects. We may also wish we sang well, had more talents, had more likable qualities…

But ultimately, we’re not perfect. Even the girl in the magazine doesn't look like the girl in the magazine

 The song ends with, 'Take your make-up off/Let your hair down/Take a breath/Look into the mirror, at yourself/Don’t you like you?/Cause I like you.' This sums up the whole song. We need to be happy with ourselves and not do things just so that we can be accepted in society or so that you can impress a certain someone. There is so much pressure to be perfect. There are so many diets, makeup, hair products etc to “help girls out”. REALLY NOW ?!  

The music video is also great because it starts out with people of all ages with makeup and hair done but then as the song goes on they start taking off their makeup and undoing their hair and are just happy with themselves.

If you guys haven't watched it, you should. 

Always remember, you're beautiful.

Lots of Love,

Alisha.

❤️