Try

Colbie Caillat wrote this empowering piano ballad with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. It was one of several songs that Caillat recorded with the R&B legend for her album. "He's one of my favorite producers," she told USA Today. "He can make any style production he wants. He's done Boyz II Men and all these R&B records, then he has worked with Barbra Streisand and Ariana Grande. Now, he's working with me."

The song contains a message of self-love aimed at females. "It's exhausting being a woman," Caillat told Billboard magazine. "This song is not to say that we should never wear makeup, but to say that, sometimes, it's okay not to."

Caillat explained the song's meaning to Radio.com. "['Try'] is about how us women feel like we need to change ourselves in so many different ways for people to accept us and like us," she said. "As much as we all hate that we allow that to happen, we still do it. Every day we wake up and change the way we look just so that we feel better about ourselves. Me and Kenny [Babyface] and Jason [Reeves], we were talking about that. We wanted a song that was honest and vulnerable."