"Brave" became Bareilles' third top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at number 23, and reached number three in Australia, her highest-charting single in the country to date. Some critics also compared pop singer Katy Perry's single "Roar" to the song. "Brave" received positive reviews from music critics, with one writing that Bareilles channels singers like Fiona Apple and Florence Welch. "Brave" was released worldwide through digital download on April 23, 2013, as the lead single from the album, through Epic Records. Bareilles requested Mark Endert to produce it with the explicit goal of radio airplay. The song was written by Bareilles and Jack Antonoff from the band fun., as the singer was inspired from the struggles that a close friend dealt with in regard to coming out as gay. "She's the template."Brave" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, taken from her fourth studio album, The Blessed Unrest (2013).
"This is the coolest possible thing that could happen for me," she says. Tonight's show will give the singer-pianist yet another boost - she'll perform a number with her ultimate role model, Carole King. That exposure may well have helped her bag the big Grammy bids. On the other hand, she says the attention did get people to hear the song again. "People were being vicious on my behalf," Bareilles says of those who've attacked Perry.
"Brave" is one of two gay-themed songs up for a Grammy tonight the other, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Same Love," was written to support The Marriage Equality Act.īeyond its lyrics, "Brave" has earned snarky attention from those who feel Katy Perry ripped off its melody in her hit "Roar." (Perry's single is up for Song of the Year.) Bareilles, a friend of Perry's, says she feels the songs resemble each other "no more than any other two songs that happen to fall into the same vein." The song that's gotten her the most attention is "Brave," which Bareilles wrote to encourage a gay friend to come out. The song that's gotten Bareilles the most attention was 'Brave.' Some felt Katy Perry ripped off its melody for 'Roar,' but Bareilles says she thought the attacks on her fellow singer were 'atrocious.'
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