{"id":871,"date":"2013-08-26T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=871"},"modified":"2013-10-14T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:05:51","slug":"sara-bareilles-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/sara-bareilles-brave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Bareilles&#8217; Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabmusic.com\/\">Sara Bareilles<\/a>. (Yes, I know, she&#8217;s been around awhile. I&#8217;m always late to the Cool Party.) She&#8217;s the awesome. <\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Brave&#8221; from her new album <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blessed_Unrest\">The Blessed Unrest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUQsqBqxoR4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I like the music, but I especially like the lyrics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been there,<br \/>\nEverybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been stared down by the enemy<br \/>\nFallen for the fear<br \/>\nAnd done some disappearing,<br \/>\nBow down to the mighty<br \/>\nDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run, stop holding your tongue<br \/>\nMaybe there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a way out of the cage where you live<br \/>\nMaybe one of these days you can let the light in<br \/>\nShow me how big your brave is<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting song. She said (source?) that it was to inspire a friend&#8217;s coming out, but if you listen to the lyrics, I think &#8220;provoke&#8221; would be a better word than &#8220;inspire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s written a lot of excellent songs. I&#8217;m amazed at how high a proportion of the songs on her album I also like. Here are some favorites:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zlxB9zGH8GU\">Uncharted<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OUe3oVlxLSA\">Gonna Get Over You<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;Hold My Heart,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eR7-AUmiNcA\">King of Anything<\/a>,&#8221; a stunning series of four songs on her album <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaleidoscope_Heart\">Kaleidoscope Heart<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vegas,&#8221; &#8220;Bottle It Up,&#8221; &#8220;Come Round Soon,&#8221; &#8220;Fairytale,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch_videos?video_ids=qi7Yh16dA0w%2CeR7-AUmiNcA%2COUe3oVlxLSA%2CrEXhAMtbaec%2CQUQsqBqxoR4%2Ctf92q6Vrj2o%2CzlxB9zGH8GU%2CQOCxcsjCe4g%2CUkOKCWDJ4iA%2Cf_hEbu92HYY%2CjZMQ0OKVO80&#038;title=Popular+uploads&#038;more_url=&#038;type=0&#038;feature=c4-overview\">Love Song<\/a>&#8221; from the nearly-as-good <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Voice_(album)\">Little Voice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plus (in addition to &#8220;Brave&#8221;) &#8220;Chasing the Sun,&#8221; &#8220;Hercules,&#8221; &#8220;Little Black Dress,&#8221; and &#8220;I Choose You,&#8221; from The Blessed Unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered Sara Bareilles. (Yes, I know, she&#8217;s been around awhile. I&#8217;m always late to the Cool Party.) She&#8217;s the awesome. This is &#8220;Brave&#8221; from her new album The Blessed Unrest. I like the music, but I especially like the lyrics. Everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been there, Everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been stared down by the enemy Fallen for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[785,786],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-brave","tag-sara-bareilles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-e3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}