Colbie Caillat: “You don’t have to try so hard.”

Colbie Caillat: “You don’t have to try so hard.”

Colbie Caillat has released the lyric video for her new song ‘Try,’ the single from her EP ‘Gypsy Heart Side A.’ I love the message Colbie promotes throughout the song, “You don’t have to try so hard…You don’t have to change a single thing.”

The lyric video for “Try” is a celebration of natural beauty and features Caillat, her fans and other famous faces — like Miranda Lambert, Hayden Panettiere, Sara Bareilles, Lady Antebellum‘s Hillary Scott, Natasha Bedingfield, Katharine McPhee and more— appearing without makeup in an effort to spread the message that beauty truly is on the inside. "It's exhausting being a woman," says Caillat. "This song is not to say that we should never wear makeup, but to say that, sometimes, it's okay not to."

The video opens with the following message from the singer-songwriter:

This lyric video is filled with photos of friends, fellow musicians, entertainers and my amazing fans. I asked everyone to shoot themselves wearing little to no makeup – whatever they were most comfortable with. Myself included. – CC

Pictured: Colbie Caillat posted this photo on her Instagram to encourage her fans to submit a bare faced selfie for ‘Try’.

The song was written after Colbie wrote a full record last year and her label wanted her to keep working and see if she got anything better. She was told to return to the studio and find a “new sound” for her fourth LP." "To be told that your work isn't good enough -- to do better, to be more like those pop artists out there that dress sexy and use Auto-tune on their voices -- to be compared to someone so different, it hurt," she says.

"Try," was co-written by R&B legend Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and resulted from a "venting experience" for Caillat, who translated her disappointment about her rejected album into a message of self-love geared towards women. "While we were writing, Kenny told me, 'Stay true to yourself. You don't have to try," Caillat remembers. "It was such an amazing thing to hear from him of all people. I thought it was a great point, and I started singing the chorus with the words, 'You don't have to try.' I told him how exhausting it is for women. There's so much we have to do in order to make ourselves beautiful so we feel accepted in the public eye. This is an anthem for women to accept who they are and be comfortable showing it and not hiding it."

In an interview originally seen in the Huffington Post, Colbie explains her vision behind the video:

Colbie Caillat: For the lyric video I wanted to have everyone send selfies, because right now selfies are so out of control; everyone does the duck face, and they make sure they have the best angle on the way they take their pictures of themselves. So I asked my fans and some of my celebrity friends if they would be brave enough to send me a picture and put it out to the public of them looking "au natural." You'd be surprised how difficult that was for me to get those pictures of everyone. Even if they said yes, they'd still have some bit of makeup on, or they'd put a filter on the lens if they wanted to look cooler, or they'd use that app Facetoons if they wanted to cover up a zit, or they wanted to wait until their blemishes went away. It was so extreme that no one could just let it be as it is. And that's really my whole point of the song is that we all have it--we all get a zit every once in a while, we all fluctuate on weight, and we know everyone's going to go grey at some point, so why are we so badly trying to hide it from each other?

Colbie Caillat 'Try' Lyric Music Video

Watch Colbie and her entourage go au naturale above, and grab “Try” on iTunes. (Added perk — it’s this week’s free Single Of The Week.)

Original interview by Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/conversations-with-colbie_b_5476882.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment