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Post by imreadynow on Apr 17, 2013 18:16:24 GMT -5
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Post by Kurt on Apr 17, 2013 21:25:17 GMT -5
I love that album title! Here's the video:
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Apr 17, 2013 21:36:45 GMT -5
I'm not a big fan of the song. It seems a little try-hard.. Idk. It's the best of her lead singles so far nonetheless, and both of her albums have been 9s out of 10, so my hopes are still high. Love the title.
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Post by circadian on Apr 17, 2013 23:14:20 GMT -5
I love that album title! Here's the video: LMAO at 'Little-er Voice' hahahahaha, I love this woman Up In The Air actually sounded good, but I like the real album title. I can't wait for her to release it
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Post by bornfearless2000 on Apr 17, 2013 23:19:31 GMT -5
OMG i didn't know she had a new song out!!! I love her but i don't stan/follow her much
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Post by SHOOTER on Apr 18, 2013 12:50:56 GMT -5
I like the single.
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Post by Gray. on Apr 18, 2013 13:40:32 GMT -5
God her album titles are awful.
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Post by JJ on Apr 27, 2013 11:02:57 GMT -5
I like her stuff usually, but Brave is too preachy for me. It should only be a heater track, it will fail miserably. It should be on a soundtrack or something.
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Post by ILLUSION on May 6, 2013 15:27:50 GMT -5
"Gravity" is still one of my favorite songs ever. I need another slaying ballad like that!
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2013 14:25:54 GMT -5
A preorder link us up on iTunes with an instant download of "Manhattan" along with the tracklisting for view: 1. Brave 2. Chasing the Sun 3. Hercules 4. Manhattan 5. Satellite Call 6. Little Black Dress 7. Cassiopeia 8. 1000 Times 9. I Choose You 10. Eden 11. Islands 12. December 13. I Wanna Be Like Me
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on May 14, 2013 20:53:35 GMT -5
I don't know why but her song titles always seem so dull to me.
Still looking forward to the record though. I still need to get acquainted with Brave though.
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Post by George on May 15, 2013 14:30:50 GMT -5
A preorder link us up on iTunes with an instant download of "Manhattan" along with the tracklisting for view: 1. Brave 2. Chasing the Sun 3. Hercules 4. Manhattan 5. Satellite Call 6. Little Black Dress 7. Cassiopeia 8. 1000 Times 9. I Choose You 10. Eden 11. Islands 12. December 13. I Wanna Be Like Me Ooh, I wonder if they're considering "Manhattan" to be a single at some point? ALBUM COVER:
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Post by K. on May 18, 2013 10:50:10 GMT -5
Sounds like it will be a great album.
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Post by rosemoor on May 18, 2013 11:41:19 GMT -5
I don't get the cover, is that black thing part of her dress? looks weird.
And Brave is kind of meh. sounds too preachy and superficial. besides, not catchy either.
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Post by Mack on May 19, 2013 9:15:02 GMT -5
^ I think 'Brave' is super catchy. It's easily the best of her lead singles, IMO.
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Post by ListenToItTwice on May 19, 2013 10:32:41 GMT -5
^ I think 'Brave' is super catchy. It's easily the best of her lead singles, IMO. I'm starting to fall in love with it. Definitely her best lead single. ("King of Anything" is my least favorite thing she's ever written, and I've burned on "Love Song..").
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Post by George on May 21, 2013 14:59:55 GMT -5
I'm not completely in love with "Brave" yet, but I'd have to rank it 3rd among her lead singles. "Love Song" is still #1, while "King of Anything" is still pretty terrific.
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Post by JJ on May 21, 2013 17:23:49 GMT -5
^ I think 'Brave' is super catchy. It's easily the best of her lead singles, IMO. Impossible. How can she ever have a better lead single than Love Song? That song is magic! Plus, this song is pretty lame.
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Post by blahsi on Jul 1, 2013 7:37:51 GMT -5
I was checking out CDJapan and stumbled upon the listing for the Japanese release of Blessed Unrest. It is going to include 2 extra tracks, Beautiful Girl and Parking lot. The release date is 7/24. I'm not sure if these are going to become available in the U.S. in an as-yet-unannounced deluxe version (such as the Target exclusive or the EP like Kaleidoscope Heart) or if they are exclusive to that region.
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Post by George on Jul 1, 2013 13:40:08 GMT -5
Sara Bareilles' Blessed Unrest: Inside Her Personal & Professional Changes For New AlbumBy Jason Lipshutz, New York | June 24, 2013 12:21 PM EDT "I love when I feel challenged to step up to my highest capacity," the singer/songwriter tells Billboard. "I always swore I would never live in New York," Sara Bareilles says with a laugh from her New York apartment. "I always felt so overwhelmed here. It's ironic -- the thing you think you don't need is the thing you actually need most." Last year, the 33-year-old singer/songwriter decided that the thing she needed was a major personal and professional change in order to record the aptly titled "The Blessed Unrest," the follow-up to 2010's "Kaleidoscope Heart." That album debuted atop the Billboard 200 and has sold 441,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It spawned the hit "King of Anything," but Bareilles was terrified of feeling creatively stagnant while assembling her next LP. "I felt antsy when thinking about coming from the same angle [with this album]," she says. "Like, 'OK, I'm going to sit down at the piano and write some songs, then I'll pick a producer.' The whole methodology being a mirror image of what had come before just wasn't feeling exciting." From a commercial standpoint, Bareilles didn't necessarily need to rejigger that image: After breaking out in 2007 with the pop smash "Love Song" (3.6 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan), she scooped up more fans with "Kaleidoscope Heart" as well as with a judging stint on NBC's "The Sing-Off." But like a star pitcher retooling her fastball in the off-season, Bareilles decided to evolve her proven approach for "The Blessed Unrest," due July 16 on Epic Records. Recorded during the past six months, the album showcases the expansive energy of Manhattan life while touching upon heavier themes than heartbreak. "Chasing the Sun" is a song about mortality, while first single "Brave" was written for a friend struggling to come out as gay. Bareilles also made an effort to recruit more collaborators for her third album: Along with producers John O'Mahoney and Mark Endert, the singer met with fun.'s Jack Antonoff for a potential co-writing opportunity. "I was introduced to Jack through Sara Quin of Tegan & Sara," Bareilles says. "We met for breakfast one day, and I was just so enamored with him and his personality... The first day we sat down together was the day we wrote 'Brave.'" Released to digital retailers as the lead single on April 23, "Brave" has sold 160,000 downloads and peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 -- a far cry from previous lead singles "Love Song" (No. 7 peak) and "King of Anything" (No. 32). But those songs each took several months to bloom into ubiquitous hits, and the strategy will remain the same for "Brave," which has been pushed to adult radio and will be crossed over to pop in the weeks prior to "The Blessed Unrest's" release. Epic VP of marketing Scott Walker says, "When we've run a Sara Bareilles single successfully, it can take between six and nine months at radio. And right now, we think we're on that trajectory." Bareilles performed "Brave" on NBC's "Today" on April 25, and will do so again on "Live With Kelly and Michael," "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" around the album's release date. Meanwhile, the music video for "Brave" -- directed by Rashida Jones and starring a bunch of wildly uninhibited dancers beckoning to Bareilles' call of "I wanna see you be brave!" -- has scored 1.1 million YouTube views in less than a month. And after setting up "The Blessed Unrest" with a short headlining run through mid-May, Bareilles will join OneRepublic for a co-headlining tour beginning Aug. 29. Bareilles says that she's looking forward to playing her new music live, but her favorite part of the album rollout thus far has been the "I Am Brave Enough" campaign, which prompted fans to share their own courageous stories through downloadable postcards that were then posted on Twitter and Instagram. "There was everything from 'I'm brave enough to fight this brain tumor' to 'I'm brave enough to come out to my conservative family,'" Bareilles says. "To me, it illuminates the fact that people want to be called out to be their best selves, and that resonates with me. I love when I feel challenged to step up to my highest capacity."
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Post by Kurt on Jul 8, 2013 11:21:57 GMT -5
Streaming on iTunes tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 21:28:56 GMT -5
Really eager to hear if this album winds up being on par or better than Kaleidoscope Heart, which was a fantastic album. :)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 21:43:01 GMT -5
Streaming on iTunes tomorrow. OMG I can't wait! I'm debating whether I should just get a digital copy this time since there's a bonus track on iTunes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 23:45:58 GMT -5
Ummmmmm what kind of slayage did I just experience with "Chasing the Sun"?
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Post by Cripple Bitch on Jul 9, 2013 9:11:46 GMT -5
So excited that this is streaming! I have all of Sara's releases and can't wait for this. I actually really love "Brave" and I'm on "Chasing the Sun" now, which I also love.
She's never let me down. Can't wait to hear the rest!
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Post by Rural Juror on Jul 9, 2013 18:21:07 GMT -5
Ummmmmm what kind of slayage did I just experience with "Chasing the Sun"? I couldn't agree more. She needs to release this as the next single. I listened to the CD at work today and even though I wasn't 100% focused on it, I can say that it's a lot more mellow than her previous CDs. There are a lot more ballads on here and since I'm not a big fan of slow songs, I'm kind of bummed. But I have faith that on repeated listenings that I will love this CD as much as I loved her previous ones.
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Post by blahsi on Jul 10, 2013 7:15:58 GMT -5
Streaming on iTunes tomorrow. OMG I can't wait! I'm debating whether I should just get a digital copy this time since there's a bonus track on iTunes. You may want to think about the Target version - their disc will have 2 exclusive tracks and is $11.99. You will be able to find the iTunes bonus track anywhere upon release next week, or it might be available to buy on its own as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 8:13:12 GMT -5
You may want to think about the Target version - their disc will have 2 exclusive tracks and is $11.99. You will be able to find the iTunes bonus track anywhere upon release next week, or it might be available to buy on its own as well. I was waiting to see if she had one this time so I will definitely do that. I can't find any information about it, where did you hear about it?
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Post by blahsi on Jul 10, 2013 8:18:18 GMT -5
You may want to think about the Target version - their disc will have 2 exclusive tracks and is $11.99. You will be able to find the iTunes bonus track anywhere upon release next week, or it might be available to buy on its own as well. I was waiting to see if she had one this time so I will definitely do that. I can't find any information about it, where did you hear about it? I frequent the Blu-ray forum site, and they are always posting the next week's ads in advance, and they had Target's up yesterday. Here is the link: forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=223405 - scroll down and you'll see the listing for her album.
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Post by Ace on Jul 10, 2013 9:12:59 GMT -5
Won tickets to a private solo show she's doing tonight in NYC. It's only half an hour, but I'm still really excited! I've never seen her live before. :)
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