Try Everything
Shakira · Zootopia (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Resilient, grace-filled encouragement to keep getting up
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Take Caution: Leans toward what could dull or mislead. Approach carefully.
- Consider Avoiding: Celebrates what Scripture warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”
The righteous fall seven times and rise again. The whole song is built on this exact idea: falling is not the verdict, rising is.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Paul's image of pressing on and forgetting what is behind mirrors the song's chorus of starting again at the end of each attempt, refusing to be defined by the last failure.
“Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.”
Though the righteous stumble, they will not fall headlong because the Lord upholds them. The song captures the human side of that promise: the getting up, the trying again.
This is a song about falling down and getting back up without pretending the falling doesn't happen. It holds two things together honestly: you will fail, and that is not the end of you. The line 'I wanna try even though I could fail' is a small act of courage, and the bridge turns outward to encourage the listener rather than celebrate the singer. There is nothing here that burdens the spirit; it mostly lightens it.
No profanity, no mature themes. The language is warm and straightforward throughout.
The song does not invoke God explicitly, but it embodies honest humility about failure and a persistent refusal to quit. It points toward grace for imperfection and the dignity of trying, which runs parallel to a great deal of biblical wisdom on perseverance and self-compassion.
Written for the Zootopia soundtrack, the song is clearly meant to encourage. It speaks directly to the listener's worth and effort, not to achievement or pride.
When you hear 'I wanna try even though I could fail,' does that feel like permission you have actually given yourself, or is it still something you are working toward?