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"I&amp;#x27;m starting off this Monday all weepy-eyed thanks to the latest love-yourself-just-the-way-you-are music video, &amp;quot;Try&amp;quot; from Colbie Caillat. Have you seen it yet? If not, steel yourself up and click play. Colbie and the other women featured in the video start off looking airbrush-perfect, then slowly start removing their makeup and wigs to reveal their natural looks. Along with the refrain &amp;quot;You don&amp;#x27;t have to try so hard,&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s pretty powerful self-esteemy stuff. The singer spoke to Glamour&amp;#x27;s own Anna Moeslein about the song last month, and now that the finished video&amp;#x27;s in heavy Internet rotation, I want to republish some of what she said about &amp;quot;Try&amp;quot; for you. Anna: Tell us about your new song &amp;quot;Try.&amp;quot; Colbie: When I wrote &amp;quot;Try&amp;quot; with Babyface and Jason Reeves it was such a liberating experience. I was telling them as a girl in this business, having so many people weigh in on your decision-making, people were wanting to change me. I was frustrated about it. They said, &amp;quot;You know what? You don&amp;#x27;t have to try. You don&amp;#x27;t have to change yourself.&amp;quot; I thought, I don&amp;#x27;t have to try. That&amp;#x27;s really cool. So I started singing the chorus right then. Kenny said, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s start naming all the things that you go through that stress you out every day as a woman.&amp;quot; Well, I got nails done yesterday, I went shopping, I had my hair and makeup artist come over, I&amp;#x27;m making sure I&amp;#x27;m working out and staying in shape and that my skin&amp;#x27;s not bad, and if it is that I&amp;#x27;m not looking at you with that side of my face.... So Kenny right then started singing, &amp;quot;Put your makeup on, get your nails done....&amp;quot; Anna: The lyric video shows women without makeup on. [click below to watch this earlier version] Colbie: Yeah, we had a lot of celebrities, fans, and a lot of my family and friends. Most of us posted without makeup. Some girls still felt the need to wear makeup&amp;amp;#8212;I had asked for zero makeup&amp;amp;#8212;but it&amp;#x27;s a step. Overall, everyone did it. Sara Bareilles looked so beautiful and natural. She&amp;#x27;s the kind of artist who is just so up for being who she is. Anna: Will the full video be similar? [this is the first video shown above!] Colbie: For my actual video for &amp;quot;Try,&amp;quot; I had nine females in it, and their age range is from about 12 to 60. All different shapes, sizes, ethnicity, everything&amp;amp;#8212;we looked so different. We started filming bare and gradually putting foundation on and with my hair was in curlers, and then the next setup we show contouring and my hair down but curled. By the finished product, I have extensions in and I look like a different person. But the video starts backward, so I start out fully done up and by the end it&amp;#x27;s us women how we are&amp;amp;#8212;no touch-ups, no makeup, as is. Anna: I love the message of the song. Colbie: The song was from experience. I do try very hard. I think all girls&amp;amp;#8212;especially in this business&amp;amp;#8212;have to be polished, and if you don&amp;#x27;t, then you&amp;#x27;re the one who looks bad. It&amp;#x27;s a lot of pressure. Even today, I wore makeup on TV. It was light, but I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;m ready to not completely wear makeup because the lighting is crazy. And then I didn&amp;#x27;t get my nails none, but I had to hold up this sign, but I was like, &amp;quot;Wait let me hide them!&amp;quot; There&amp;#x27;s that mental thing happening of all the little things I hadn&amp;#x27;t polished up, so little by little I&amp;#x27;m trying to remind myself and other people. I don&amp;#x27;t want to sound like I&amp;#x27;m preaching to people, because I&amp;#x27;m not doing that, but it&amp;#x27;s reminders for us all [that you don&amp;#x27;t have to try]. Click here to read Anna&amp;#x27;s full interview with Colbie Caillat about her new album, Gypsy Heart Side A. While there will never be a song or video powerful enough to make me swear off my blow-dryer or undereye concealer, this one still gets to me and reminds me to dial back on the self-loathing I&amp;#x27;m currently experiencing after skipping the gym for pretty much the whole summer so far. What&amp;#x27;s your reaction to Colbie Caillat&amp;#x27;s new video about beauty?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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