![]() ![]() The next year, she released a music video for the love song “I Choose You,” which featured Bareilles helping a lesbian couple get engaged. In 2013 she released “Brave,” an empowering song that is considered by many to be a pro-gay anthem for its lyrics about courage and self-love. It wasn’t so much about research, it was just about kind of a meditation in finding myself inside of these stories and trying to speak from that place.”īareilles has been using this unique sense of empathy throughout most of her professional career, especially to relate to her queer fanbase. “I feel very empathetic towards the human condition in a lot of forms, which is why I think I’m someone who carries a lot of melancholy with me in my life, but it’s also why I want to write about it,” Bareilles says about channeling other people’s emotions to write songs that are special to her. ![]() ![]() It's a feat that Bareilles chalks up to her ability to feel compassion for others and her strong desire to relate her music to her fans - a large portion of whom are LGBT. The project, a compilation of all the songs she wrote for next year’s highly-anticipated Broadway adaptation of the Adrienne Shelly film Waitress, is (despite it being written in the voice of multiple characters) one of her most personal records to date. ![]()
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