sara bareilles i choose you without back story

‘Brave’ was a very intimate song when I wrote it─from a letter, basically from me to a dear friend.

So, sometimes you find yourself in the song, and you learn as much from that song as a listener might. “I’m of the mindset, and I think a lot of artists do it, it’s sort of like it never really belongs to any of us. I remember the joy, man, I just remember the joy and the pride. “That night was so special to me in just the arc of my career and such a huge milestone moment for me, personally. There’s a nostalgia that I feel when I listen back, tons of joy,” she reflects. I can’t get away from the knowledge that we’re never going to quite go back exactly to what was before. “It feels like a time capsule in a weird way. Little did she, or anyone for that matter, know what the world would be like 18 months later. “So I was a lot of Marvel movies and superhero stuff at the height of the pandemic when I was like, ‘I don’t want to think about anything real.’”īut now, Bareilles finds some comfort with her newly-released live record, Amidst the Chaos: Live from the Hollywood Bowl, recorded at the tail-end of 2019─a living document of her last pre-pandemic performance. “I ended up doing a little bit of escaping into television, actually,” she adds. She also spent time revisiting Harry Belafonte’s catalog and flipping through the work of Phoebe Bridgers and Billie Eilish. Artists like Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Etta James, and Ray Charles became her haven into which she could escape and soothe her anxiety-addled brain. While creatively uninspired, Bareilles found herself leaning on “comfort food,” she laughs. I just couldn’t, I couldn’t quite access that in myself. I was grateful for the people who were making music. Now, it actually feels like it might be fertile ground to kind of look back and reflect, but with a more hopeful tone. “And maybe that’s part of what I wasn’t wanting to process─what’s happened through the lens of the melancholy I was feeling. The song in question emerged as way “more hopeful than I thought it was going to be,” she admits. I think that I’m just starting to turn the corner on that now.” I was very heavy and depressed and just didn’t find a lot of solace in writing. I think I was pretty shell-shocked, as most people were, but some people turned to artistic expressions to process. “I was one of those people that got very quiet. When she hops on a call with American Songwriter, late Friday afternoon, she’s in the middle of the sticks and expressing what many artists have witnessed over the last 15 months: total creative depletion. Sara Bareilles wrote her first song since the pandemic started less than a week ago.

Sara bareilles i choose you without back story