Last time around, Colbie Caillat was feeling “Bubbly,” and the entire pop world seemed to want a sip. But this time, effervescence flirts with explosiveness. For her sophomore album, Breakthrough, Colbie has shaken up her sound, bringing in a wider array of producers and players, and significantly picking up the tempo at times from her debut effort’s signature ballads.
A newly minted star who’s still discovering her boundaries, Caillat tries t to stay open and even vulnerable. “You keep your guard up with some of the people that you meet. But I also think that fans should know who you are, and why be afraid of it? It’s like that feeling you get when you see someone on YouTube with no makeup on or acting silly—whatever it is that you normally do—and it’s like ‘Oh, they’re doing it too, and it’s okay, we can be who we are.’ You just have to remind yourself not to hide what you do and who you are, because people like seeing that.”
That’s something Caillat clearly hasn’t forgotten with this bigger, better, and even more intimate album. Finding out that increased amplitude and heightened transparency aren’t mutually exclusive after all—that’s the stuff that true bust outs are made of.