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 *****Attention***** Listen to this song before you read this post (I promise it will be worth the 4 minutes) and P.S. the blog post will still be here when you are finished listening. PROMISE.

I cannot explain how many times I have listened to this song since I heard it on Monday on the radio. It immediately spoke to me – THIS WAS ME.

I use to be the girl that caked on the make up and got those fricken fake nails put on my fingers every two weeks (they are pretty but in HS you have no money!). I would hate going to school without my hair straightened.

Lets be honest, I never ran the extra mile in high school. But I did want to fricken be slim.

I wondered if by doing these things, would people like me more?

Then when I went to college things changed. I realized I did not have to be that other person every.single.day. To this day I still love dressing up and getting my hair done – but the everyday Bailey likes to be in athletic comfy clothes with my hair up with a headband in. Ain’t nobody have time for pants that don’t have an elastic waste band.

I want to play this song for every middle school girl and play it loud in the cafeteria for every high school girl that spends way too much money on a pair of jeans and will not go in public without make up. I want to blast this song in my Troopers faces and let them know to BE WHO THEY ARE. Do NOT try to be someone you are not – if someone cannot like you for YOU, you do not want him or her in your life.

This song speaks to me so much and I love every.single.word.

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

You don't have to try

Oh

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

You don't have to try

No

Oh

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