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"Try" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat from her fifth studio album, ''Gypsy Heart''. It was released as the lead single on June 9, 2014 via Republic Records. The song was written by Caillat, Babyface and Jason Reeves and was produced by Babyface. Lyrically, the midtempo ballad is about not trying to be someone else in order to make others happy and 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 has charted moderately on the US Billboard Hot 100, while becoming her highest-charting single in five years in Australia and Canada. 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 give emphasis to 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gold & Platinum: Searchable Database )〕 ==Background== After releasing her first christmas album, ''Christmas in the Sand'' (2012), and contributing to the soundtrack of the 2013 film ''Safe Haven'', with the song "We Both Know", a duet with Gavin DeGraw, Caillat recorded during the summer of 2013 a new album with a "’70s vibe" with producer John Shanks. It was set to be released in November 2013, however, after meeting up with Ryan Tedder, Caillat decided to record a more "pop, up-tempo dancey" album. Caillat also worked with record producer and songwriter Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds on the album, explaining, "We did four or five songs. I love him as a producer and writer. I just tell him any style that I’m in the mood for and we write it. It’s not like he’s pigeonholed in being an R&B producer. The first song we wrote together is a complete folk song that’s going to be on this record. It has a banjo on it! The next song is R&B-pop, and then the next one we did is completely a piano ballad, no harmonies — it’s really honest and vulnerable."〔 The synthpop-infused track "Hold On", produced by Tedder, was released as the album's lead-single. However, the song failed to make an impact on the charts, and the album was postponed. Caillat and her label thought they should keep working and see if they got anything better. The response disappointed the singer, who was told to return to the studio to find a "new sound" for the album. "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 claimed. Later, Caillat decided to release an EP, claiming that "12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record. People can listen to the first five songs, fall in love with them, get to know them, and then a few months later, have the rest of the record available for download."〔 To promote the EP, "Gypsy Heart: Side A", "Try" was chosen to be its lead-single,〔 being the iTunes Store single of the week of from June 9 to June 16, 2014, and it would be officially released to Mainstream radio stations in early September. On October 21, 2014, the song was serviced to contemporary hit radio by Republic Records; a new "Uptempo Mix" will officially impact the format on January 13, 2015. This version was released to digital retailers on November 24, 2014 under the official name "Alex Ghenea Remix".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/Try-Alex-Ghenea-Remix/dp/B00POI2XMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417378622&sr=8-1&keywords=Colbie+Caillat+Try+Alex+Ghenea+Remix )〕 == Composition and inspiration == "Try" was written by Colbie Caillat, Antonio Dixon, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Jason Reeves, while production was done by Babyface.〔 It is written in the time signature of common time and is composed in the key of , with a moderately slow tempo of 70 beats per minute. Caillat's vocal range span from the low-note of to the high-note of F5. As noted by Holly Williams of ''Contact Music'', the song is "full of gently plucked acoustic guitar, twinkling synths and minimal piano that adds a pleasantly uplifting touch, while Colbie's vocals are soft, yet understated - almost as if she's inviting you to sing along with her."〔 According to ''Billboard'', "the song resulted from a 'venting experience' for Caillat, who translated her disappointment about her scrapped album into a message of self-love aimed at women."〔 "Put your makeup on/ Get your nails done/ Curl your hair/ Run the extra mile/ Keep it slim so they like you, do they like you?," she sings in the beginning.〔 "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," she sings in the chorus.〔 In an interview for Elle, Caillat confessed that the idea for the song came after going into the recording studio with "Babyface", explaining that she told him that she was getting a lot of pressure to be someone she was not, both musically and image-wise. She claimed, "Although I don’t want to do it, I’m just going to make these people happy. He started laughing, and said, we’re not going to do that. That’s not you, and that’s ridiculous of them to ask. That right there gave me the creative freedom." He said, "Let’s write about exactly what they’re asking you to do — to change yourself." We started checking off all these things that all of us girls do everyday to get ready to go out. () So Babyface inspired me to write this and it's all from a personal experience." Caillat explained that, "This song is not to say that we should never wear makeup, but to say that, sometimes, it's okay not to."〔 She further told People that, "(and songwriters told me ) you don't have to try to be someone else, because people like who you are." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Try (Colbie Caillat song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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