Currently top 100 in the US and climbing...and its an absolutely brilliant Regina Spektor/Feist-esque track...video link below:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5xv3pt7KI

Sara is good, I love this song.

its a great song. I downloaded it but I got a different version (a slow one) instead of the video version

I got that one originally too...sounds like a demo...it doesn't have the same edge as the single version which is just brilliant!

 

Up to No.2 on US iTunes today which is amazing news!

Interview from Teletext:

Sara Bareilles' look of love By John Earls - "I was so panicky about being on a major record company. Then I thought 'Well, you've signed now, you'd better take the consequences.'"

 

Sara Bareilles' Top 10 hit Love Song is a dig at her record label's demands for syrupy ballads from a singer more at home with Death Cab and Ben Folds.

 

"I've been known to cry and scream at meetings with Sony," says Sara. "I'll go crazy if my music isn't right."

 

It's ironic Love Song is Sara's first hit, as it was a dig at Sony.

 

"I gave them some album demos and their attitude was 'Where's the singles?'," says Sara, 28.

 

"I couldn't believe how non-committal they were to music I'd spent so long sweating over. I wrote Love Song on the spot and was 'Well, try THIS!' thinking they'd go mad. When they went 'THAT'S a single', it was me who got mad!"

 

Sara signed her deal in 2005, but it's only next week that her album Little Voice is coming out in the UK.

 

"I thought my album would be out at most a year after I signed," she sighs.

 

"It was a year before I got in the studio - just paperwork stuff. Then, my producer Eric Fosse and I spent so long getting the record together. I obsessed over every tiny detail. I've learned to let things go a little easier since."

 

Formerly university friends in Los Angeles with Maroon 5, Sara says her passion for her music is because of her determination to express herself.

 

"I'm just so much braver in music than I am in everyday life," she chuckles.

 

"I say all the pent-up s*** I don't dream of saying to peoples' faces, so if anyone tries to interfere with my songs, I become possessed. Writing has been my escape since I was a teenager."

 

Typical of Sara's musical honesty is the raunchy Come Round Soon.

 

"That's about a guy I had a crush on in college and, no, it wasn't one of Maroon 5," she says.

 

"He became the focus of my songwriting energies, it's fair to say! I don't think he knows I've written songs about him. But, you know, if you come into the orbit of a songwriter, you're bound to get a song about you one day."

 

As a sideline to her lyrics, Sara sometimes writes poetry.

 

"Bad poetry," she emphasies. "A lot of singers think that, because we can write lyrics, we're poets too.

 

"But it's a completely different sphere - I know my poems aren't so hot. I do it to unwind, occasionally get a song idea. Really, they aren't so great. If a publisher offered to put a collection out, I'd have the sense to say no!"

 

actually its funny Ben Folds names comes up in this interview as everytime Love Song comes on and my cd player is plugged in - i rush to get my copy of The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner to play this excellent track...

 

She's cool.

 

She reminds me a little of Vanessa Carlton/Regina Spektor.

She's cool.

 

She reminds me a little of Vanessa Carlton/Regina Spektor.

 

think Attitude magazine had her as taking over from people like Fiona Apple and Sheryl Crow (tho most of the article was thinking about the type of music angry lesbians might play)

Does anyone else have her album? What do you think about it?

 

I think 'Love Song' is the best on the album, but 'Fairytale' is quite a close second for me. It's quite a good album in my opinion.

 

I thought she'd be more popular on this forum, there's not much discussion about her - discuss!

i have the album but not had a chance to listen to it yet

She is like a female James Blunt but with the Spektor indie about her. I think it's great stuff.

She is like a female James Blunt but with the Spektor indie about her. I think it's great stuff.

Except James Blunt is unbearable in every way. :puke2:

she's not as quirky as Regina Spektor, she's a lot more commercial and marketable (is that a word :lol:)

Has anyone got her album? I got it a few weeks ago, I really love it! Gravity is gorgeous, and Love on the rocks is another favourite of mine.

yeah, I've had it since I made this thread 7 months ago :lol: it's a great album, Fairytale, Gravity, City, Bottle It Up, Vegas and Love On The Rocks are my other favourites

I love the album :heart: But am i the only one who doesnt reckon much too 'Vegas' :unsure:

I love the album :heart: But am i the only one who doesnt reckon much too 'Vegas' :unsure:

 

it's far from the standout track but I like it :D

 

only Come Round Soon I wouldn't give more than 8 out of 10

Yeah I'm not a big fan of 'Vegas' either. It's alright but I usually skip it. I used to be like that with 'City' too but am liking that one more now!

Except James Blunt is unbearable in every way. :puke2:

 

ha ha... I was wondering whether to use Blunt... but you know what I mean. ^_^

yeah, I've had it since I made this thread 7 months ago :lol: it's a great album, Fairytale, Gravity, City, Bottle It Up, Vegas and Love On The Rocks are my other favourites

 

do you think Sara Bareilles will have any other hits from this album or do you think Love Song will just be in the chart for like forever....?

well it seems to be losing steam already, and I don't think she'll have anymore hits...she'll do an Estelle/Sam Sparro and be lucky to have another top 75 hit...there are no other 'hit singles' on the album except maybe Fairytale