I’ll continue to talk about the things that I care about and I really don’t spend all that much time thinking about the criticism that much.”
“Why would you tell someone who is lending support that their support isn’t valid? It’s exclusionary. But with the good comes the bad, as it also drew criticism from people who thought she was further jumping on the ‘gay rights bandwagon’. The video quickly went viral and was widely praised. “I really wanted to make sure that different kinds of love were represented,” she says. The inclusion of a lesbian couple was a no-brainer. For the music video, Bareilles helped two real-life couples make surprise proposals to their other halves. That’s the message beneath it all for me.”īareilles’ most recent single ‘I Choose You’, a heartfelt, sweet ballad that will most likely be the ‘first dance’ song at many weddings in the future, imparts a similar sentiment. “I am just happy to be someone who is in a position to help and start a conversation on a larger platform, and hopefully influence acceptance and compassion and love. “Gay rights are something that I’ve felt impassioned about for my entire life,” she tells me. She tells me that while it is definitely a dream come true for her, the best thing about the notoriety is the chance to make a difference and speak about the issues that matter to her, with LGBT rights being at the forefront. With a long list of collaborators to her name, including Pharrell and Weezer, her star continued to rise and last year she landed her first Grammy nomination for The Blessed Unrest. That feels amazing.”īareilles first came to attention in 2007 when her tongue-in-cheek ‘Love Song’ topped the charts internationally and became her first commercially successful hit after five long years of trying break into the industry. Those battling cancer, kids standing up to bullying in school.
What’s been amazing is that the song has been embraced by a lot of different people. “It felt especially charged, so the song came from this very pure place that did happen to have to do with gay issues. “At the time there was a lot of dialogue about gay rights in the zeitgeist,” she explains. Still, she had no expectations of it becoming an anthem.
Heralding a new stage in Bareilles’ career, according to the singer/songwriter the song was written “as a love letter to a very good friend of mine who was struggling to come out as gay later in life.” A year later, Sara Bareilles released ‘Brave’, a track from her album The Blessed Unrest, another gay civil rights anthem from a straight pop star that soared to the top of the global charts. ‘Born This Way’) can be read as gay anthems, it is only with the release of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s ‘Same Love’ in 2012 that the first global gay civil rights anthem was born. But while her song ‘Express Yourself’ (and Gaga’s similar Of course, long before Beyoncé and Jay Z spoke out for same sex marriage, or Lady Gaga took a stand against the US military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, Madonna was advocating for gay rights. As her career moves into book writing, musical theatre and laying down tracks with Seth McFarlane, along with her own recording and touring, she has no intention of giving up the fight for gay rights, she tells Jane Casey.Īlthough throughout the years many pop stars have aligned themselves with the gay community, it is only in recent times that certain heterosexual performers have become identified as ‘straight allies’. Sara Bareilles’ 2013 single, ‘Brave’ was a civil rights anthem inspired by her passionate interest in LGBT issues, and the plight of a friend.
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