Colbie Caillat con il suo ultimo video musicale ha lanciato una provocazione. “Try”, questo il nome del video, ormai è un fenomeno virale, perché parla alle donne, parla alla loro intimità, alle loro debolezze e insicurezze, toccando nel profondo.
Ragazze giovani e belle aprono il video. Tutto già visto finora. Andando avanti nei minuti, però, le extension si staccano dai capelli, le ciglia finte cadono, il trucco svanisce e ciò che resta è solo il loro volto acqua e sapone, il loro vero “io” senza maschere né filtri. Un messaggio dalla forte potenza comunicativa che, infatti, non ha lasciato indifferente il web. Una lotta pacifica all’esibizionismo, combattuta a colpi di note e immagini, lasciando inerme lo spettatore più vincolato negli stereotipi.
Il video ha superato i 15 milioni di visualizzazioni, consacrandosi virale. Di seguito il testo della canzone.
Try
di Colbie Caillat
Oooh
Oooh
Put your make-up on
Get your nails done
Curl your hair
Run the extra mile
Keep it slim so they like you, do they like you?
Get your sexy on
Don’t be shy, girl
Take it off
This is what you want, to belong, so they like you
Do you like you?
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
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try
Yooou don’t have to try
Oooh
Oooh
Get your shopping on, at the mall, max your credit cards
You don’t have to choose, buy it all, so they like you
Do they like you?
Wait a second,
Why, should you care, what they think of you
When you’re all alone, by yourself, do you like you?
Do you like you?
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
You don’t have to try so hard
You don’t have to bend until you break
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don’t have to change a single thing
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try
Yooou don’t have to try
Oooh
Oooh
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
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try
You don’t have to try
Take your make-up off
Let your hair down
Take a breath
Look into the mirror, at yourself
Don’t you like you?
Cause I like you
