Try (Colbie Caillat song)

"Try"
Single by Colbie Caillat
from the album Gypsy Heart
Released	June 9, 2014 (2014-06-09)
Recorded	2014
Genre	Pop
Length	3:45
Label	Republic
Songwriter(s)	Colbie Caillat Antonio Dixon Babyface Jason Reeves
Producer(s)	Babyface Antonio Dixon
Colbie Caillat singles chronology
"Hold On" (2013) "Try" (2014) "Goldmine" (2016)
Music video
"Try" on YouTube

"Try" is a song by American singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat from her fifth studio album, Gypsy Heart (2014). It was released on June 9, 2014 by Republic Records as the lead single from the album. The song was written by Caillat, Jason Reeves, Babyface and Antonio Dixon and was produced by the latter two. Lyrically, the midtempo pop ballad is about not trying to be someone else to make others happy. It was written after a session where Caillat was feeling pressure to be someone she was not, both musically and image-wise. It received acclaim from music critics, who noted it was a simple, but beautiful empowering ballad.

The song charted moderately on the US Billboard Hot 100, while becoming her highest-charting single in five years in Australia and Canada. It also became a top 40 hit in Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. To promote the song, a lyric video including female fans and artists, such as Sheryl Crow, Sara Bareilles, Christina Perri and others, without any makeup on, to emphasize the song message, was released on June 10, 2014. Later, an official music video was released on July 8, 2014. It features the singer alongside a diverse set of women with makeup and wigs, while removing them throughout the video, ending it natural. It went viral over the internet, accumulating over 27 million views in almost two months. The song was certified platinum by the RIAA on March 20, 2015.^[1]