Colbie Caillat's Song Compare Contrast

Our first unit we looked at was short stories, poems and songs. We figured out how some songs have similar messages to some short stories. Colbie Caillat’s song ‘Try’ is similar in many ways to Alessia Cara’s ‘Scars to your beautiful’ because they both state that society has made the ‘perfect person’ that girls should look up to and make themselves that person. Both songs also connect with the short story ‘Harrison Bergeron’ by Kurt Vonnegut because the handicaps placed on people link to girls wearing makeup to be ‘pretty’ like someone else.

In Colbie Caillat’s song, Try, the lyrics tell us about girls trying to be like someone else. Someone that they aren’t. Society has created a profile for the ‘perfect person’ and make girls feel like they need to be exactly like that person but to get there, they are changing everything about themselves. One line in the song stood out to me, “You

In the chorus of Scars to Your Beautiful it says But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark you should know you're beautiful just the way you are and you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart no scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful. From this line, I thought it reflected over all the negative elements of the verse and turned it into a positive note by saying you don’t need to change who you are to fit in or be like someone else, but society can be more equal and accept people for who they are. In Try the chorus is similar because it says 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 which connects to Alessia Cara’s song because she, again, turns the negative element of the verse and made it positive by telling us we don’t need to try hard to be like others and give all the natural beauty and talent