A Conversation with Colbie Caillat – HuffPost 6.10.14

Mike Ragogna: Colbie, I wanted to ask you about your video for “Try.” It’s a very strong statement. How did it come together?

Colbie Caillat: We have a lyric video and a real music video, which we shot just the other day, and when I wrote the song it was all about how, personally, I felt like people around me in the industry and, unintentionally, my record label, was hoping I could be a different-looking–a little sexier, showing more or showing less, if you know what I mean. And that’s what inspired the song, and then when I was trying to find out how to do the video I was talking to my boyfriend Justin, and I said, “I think it should be me in my bathroom, with tons of makeup on, and then I take it off.” We just kept unraveling it from there. I kind of wanted to do a time-lapse of the whole process getting done–the hair, the makeup, the nails–from start to finish, and just completely baring all; it was really difficult for the video, because I started out with zero hair and makeup done; not even a blemish or a zit was touched up. And I had to do a bunch of performance shots like that in tons of bright light and with HD cameras right in my face; it was terrifying! Terrifying because you know everyone’s going to be looking at all those imperfections that could have been fixed up. And then as the video progresses, we put more and more makeup on, and then it’s going to be in reverse, a lot of the scenes, and by end of the video, I’m in full-on hair and makeup, have hair extensions. Then they show me taking the hair extensions out. And it was the same for the nine other women in the video.

A Very Special Christmas (Special Olympics Series) Conversation with Tim Shriver, Vicki Iovine, Colbie Caillat, Carter Twins & Mitchel Musso – HuffPost 12.10.09

Mike Ragogna: Tim, what is the mission of the Special Olympics organization? Tim Shriver: I think our movement is a force for social change, it’s a real civil rights movement in 180 countries around the world. In each of those countries, villages, cities, and towns, our job is to empower people with intellectual disabilities through […]