Bubbly

"Bubbly" isn't about anybody specific, Caillat explained to I Like Music: "It's about the feelings you get when you have a crush on someone and they make you make smile all the time; they give you butterflies and you just adore everything they do." The young singer-songwriter added that the inspiration for the song came in the summer of 2006 when she was realizing that, "I didn't have a crush on anyone, and its always fun to have a crush. So I was just thinking about missing those feelings and wanting them."

Colbie Caillat grew up surrounded by music with her father, Ken Caillat, who co-produced the Rumours and Tusk albums for Fleetwood Mac. Despite only beginning to play the guitar at the age of 19, within 3 years she'd recorded a Billboard Top 10 hit. The Californian singer-songwriter is one of the first artists to emerge as a result of posting a song on the Internet. After a friend set up a MySpace site for the her, she posted "Bubbly," which began to receive thousands of hits and an organic campaign developed for it on the popular social networking site. This led to Colbie signing with Universal and achieving a crossover hit.

Caillat wrote this song with Jason Reeves, who came to Los Angeles from Iowa and met Colbie his first day in the city. They ended up moving in together (Reeves says she's "like a sister"), and working on songs for her first album. When Songfacts spoke with Reeves in 2011, he told us, "The thing about Colbie and I writing is that it's so easy and natural. I really don't know how to describe it beyond that. But I think we're just so comfortable with each other and we're so free with what we're feeling at the moment when we're writing a song that there's not very many walls between us to get in the way."