Sara Bareilles
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42 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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If you can let go of the part of you that needs things to be finished quickly or perfect or that you know what anything is or means, if you can let go of that part, then it can be really fun.
No. I feel like working in the theater industry only affirmed that I think the theater industry is the best industry. I think what it affirmed in me is that I just felt like I'd been at the wrong party my whole life.
career i just i don't know where i fit in the music industry people did not give two shits about me until i wrote until waitress was like a musical and i was like you guys care about this show about pie but you didn't like nobody would touch me with a 10 football there's so much competition in the music industry that i don't i just i'm not a competitive person i don't understand it
It's not that theater isn't competitive. There is that kind of essence as well in some ways. But everybody, there's just sort of this feeling of like everybody's sort of so happy to be there. Like, we got a show, guys. They're so grateful to have a paycheck. We don't know how long it's going to last. Yeah. So I love that feeling. I would rather be at that.
I would rather go to the Tonys than, you know, the Emmys or the Oscars.
I mean, Gravity was a song I wrote from an extraordinarily brokenhearted place. I was 18 when I wrote that song. And I thought, like, the world was ending. And that song now gets to be interpreted and reinterpreted for other people's pain, even though I don't carry that same pain anymore.
My hope is, as a songwriter, I can work to articulate things that maybe you wouldn't quite know how to say or other people feel like, oh, I'm the only person who feels this. And then, like, wait, she must feel it too because it's right there in the song.
Set me free me be I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity here I am and I stand so tall I'm just the way I'm supposed to be but you're onto me and over me you loved me cause I'm fragile and I thought that I was strong you touched me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone sad
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity Here I am and I stand so tall Just the way I'm supposed to be But you're onto me I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're everything I think I need. Here on the ground, that you're neither friend nor foe, though I can't seem to let you go. The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down.
Sarah Bareilles speaking with staff writer Rachel Syme. More in a moment.
And wound up killing 20, 30,000 people or so before it was over with.
I don't think art itself is vulnerable. I think artists are vulnerable. I watch a lot of young artists get... popular really quickly because of the way the mechanism functions at this point. There used to be more time. The idea that it was a slow burn, and there is something valuable about it being a slow burn. And I watch a lot of these young artists... freak out, cancel big shows.
And I don't fault them for this. I feel like the exponential growth is more than could possibly be metabolized by an artist at that. You're playing 100 people one day and then two months later you're playing to like 50,000 people. It's not normal. I think you have to be really clear on why are you making what you're making.
If it's to get magazine covers or if it's to get rich, I would really encourage you to do something else because art doesn't have time for that. Because I think creation is a holy act. I think it's sacred work. And I think it's like ministry to take care of the world with making art.
Totally. I mean, I think more than anything, I just feel a responsibility to show up authentically. Like, I'm someone who... I'm aging naturally. And I might change my mind about that. But I'm like, what does it look like for me to just be, like, to not try to hide the person that I am turning into? I'm not trying to piss anybody off by getting wrinkles on my forehead.
I'm just, this is what it looks like when you're lucky enough to grow up and lucky enough to get to age. And so I feel like... That's the thing I feel responsibility to, is to keep trying to show up authentically, and I'm not always going to get it right, and it's going to piss people off sometimes, but it really matters to me.
Sitting in the morning sun I'll be sitting till the evening comes Watching the ships roll in Then I'll watch them roll away again Songwriter and performer Sarah Bareilles.
She spoke with The New Yorker's Rachel Syme. I'm David Remnick, and that's our program for today. I want to close the program and begin the new year by thanking everyone at the Radio Hour and at The New Yorker. And thank you for listening, and a happy new year.
Wasting time. Now you whistle, ready?
It's terrible. Keep going.
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