Chords to brave sara bareilles how to#

Chords to brave sara bareilles how to#

I wrote it in a very high key and then had to learn how to sing it live-so it was really humbling to have this big message I wanted to share and have to really work to do it.

That song in particular has been such an incredible teacher to me. It charted in the Top 40 of several different countries, including the U.S., Australia, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.K., and earned Bareilles a Grammy nomination for best solo performance. “Brave,” released in 2013 in the heat of the marriage equality movement, was the first single on Bareilles’s fourth album, The Blessed Unrest. I think I felt protective of myself, but the song ended up opening all these doors for me and taking me around the world. For someone like me who’s prone to a lot of depression and anxiety and self-doubt, I know that I have to manage my mental state in a really rigorous way. This song was my little stubborn “fuck you.” The music industry, and the entertainment industry at large, can be a really toxic place. I was so concerned with losing myself, somehow, in the process. In some ways, I probably wasn’t having as much fun as I could have had. I wasn’t going to wear the sparkly dress, I wasn’t going to wear the high heels. I was so protective of myself-I wasn’t going to do what they asked me to do. I was so stubborn, especially at that age. He actually remains a really good friend of mine! He had no idea until I was like, “It’s kind of…about you.” And he was like, “That’s amazing!” It was a response to feeling invisible and knowing that I wasn’t going to be manipulated. I thought my A&R guy was going to get mad. I made it so, so deeply specific to my experience, I thought that they would be angry with me. I even referenced Maroon 5 in the lyrics-those were people I knew very closely and was touring with. Bareilles earned two Grammy nominations for it-s ong of the year and best female pop performance. The song, released in 2007, rose to number four on the Billboard Hot 100, spending more than 40 weeks in the charts. “ Love Song” was the debut single on Bareilles’s first studio album with a major music label. It was never on the radio! To have a song that never ended up on the radio be probably my number one, most-requested song is a very special thing. I couldn’t possibly have imagined that the song would have this life. I think the reason that song remains so special to me is that I got to see for the first time that as brave as I could be in sharing my vulnerability, the more connective it was for my audience. Those kinds of things felt like a gravitational pull. I just felt like I physically didn’t have the strength to not respond to his calls, or not go see him if he asked me to. It didn’t matter how much I would give myself pep talks, or feel my own resolve in moving forward, or think, He treated me poorly so we’re over. “Gravity” is really about having my heart broken by another person and feeling physically unable to keep myself away. It’s the first time I processed my intimate personal experience in a song in a way that expanded out to deal with metaphor and these larger themes. I wrote “Gravity” when I was about 18 years old.