Wear that wrong pair of jeans and I will pounce on you so fast, you won’t even have time to say “Oh my Gunn!” That’s a Tim Gunn reference. By time, you’ll get to know that I’m a bitch when it comes to my work (which is anything fashion related). Design student thrust into the world of online journalism. I’ve always wanted to work in fashion (and still intend to), and to find a place that actually allows me to cross paths with a lot of influential people in the design field is just more than I ever banked for. As my debut piece for CairoScene and my stage entrance to the world of ‘the press’, I have to say I’m kind of feeling the pressure. It peaked at number four on Billboard’s Hot 100.Here I am, staring at this blank word document, with that incessantly annoying cursor flashing in time with my self-doubt and with Sara Bareilles’ new single, Brave, crooning in the background (totally worth a listen, by the way) and I have absolutely no idea how to start this article.

“Love Song” became Bareilles' commercial breakthrough without the help of a co-writer. Ironically, it seems the record labels attempts to help Bareilles to mainstream success through partnerships with established songwriters hindered her ability to reach out to her audience more than they helped. Sitting at the keyboard, and praying to God for help, she wrote the majority of the song in about thirty minutes. In her memoir, Sounds Like Me, Bareilles describes the song as “a beacon to help me find my way back to my own artistry at a time when I had lost sight of what that meant.”Īfter numerous attempts at co-writing with professional songwriters, Bareilles felt really out of touch with herself as a songwriter she was struggling to stay true to herself. Bareilles was struggling to produce a “big single” to satisfy them, and “Love Song” was born out of the frustration she felt at that. Despite often being presented as a typical love song, “Love Song” is directed to Sara Bareilles' record label.

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