Song Analysis Of 'Try: Try' By Colbie Caillat

The song that I have chosen is “Try”, by Colbie Caillat. “Try” is from Caillat’s fifth album and was released as the lead single on the album called, “Gypsy Heart”. This song is about girls not trying too hard on their outer looks, in order to make others happy. Caillat wrote the song after a songwriting session where she was feeling pressure to be someone who she wasn’t. The genre of this song is pop ballad.

In this song, Colbie Caillat is trying to tell girls and women, that it is okay to not wear makeup, and to not do their hair. The song explains that you don’t need to try as hard as society (or other people) are telling you to. Lots of times, the goal with makeup and fashion is to create a perfect image of beauty. The models in magazines or actors in movies look a certain way and sometimes the pictures are even changed with computers to create unreal pictures. The perfect example of beauty given to women/girls is unrealistic and difficult to reach. The song is powerful because it tries to convince girls and women that they don’t need to try so hard with their looks. They don’t need to put so much time, effort and money into their beauty. It’s more important to like yourself and who you are on the inside. …show more content…
There are many girls as young as junior high age who are convinced that their value is in their looks. This is a sad thing because they are getting their self worth from a superficial thing like beauty. This song is important for this generation because the world tells girls that there's a perfect standard for external beauty and that everyone should try to attain it. Girls feel pressure to look a certain way and that can lead to mental problems and/or physical issues. Girls should be more focused on their inner beauty instead of what they look like on the