” Ultimately, it begins The Blessed Unrest off to a fast, moving start.
Bareilles’ pipes shine above the production, particularly on the featured line of the chorus, “I just wanna see you be brave.” Throughout “Brave”, Bareilles offers words of encouragement and building strength, whether it is lines like “You can be the outcast / Or the backlash of somebody’s lack of love / Or you can start speaking up … ” or “Don’t run, stop holding your tongue / Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live ….
“Brave” opens exceptionally, anchored by its rhythmic nature throughout. Regardless, Bareilles remains in great voice. To call Bareilles selfish would be a definite overstatement, but, at times on The Blessed Unrest, Bareilles overreaches and others seems a bit blasé. The rub with being such an ambitious singer/songwriter is that sometimes your gift can present itself to others as indulgent. As alluded to by the aforementioned lyric, Bareilles has a prodigious gift for words she’s incredibly poetic and refined with her pen. She followed that with a star turn as Mary Magdalene on NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live and, in 2020, finally snagged her first Grammy for the gentle, T Bone Burnett-produced "Saint Honesty.“Anchored home in her interstellar sea / But poor lonely Cassiopeia.” The featured line is excerpted from Sara Bareilles’ “Cassiopeia”, one of several “heady” tracks from her latest effort, The Blessed Unrest. Not content to rule the pop charts, Bareilles returned to theater, writing the music for the 2015 Tony-nominated stage production Waitress and later making her Broadway acting debut in the show. Her follow-up album, 2010’s Kaleidoscope Heart, debuted at number one of the charts, and 2013’s The Blessed Unrest, with its inescapable, heart-swelling single “Brave,” followed suit. From there, Bareilles’s career was on a rocket-like trajectory, thanks to her passionate vocals, unique melodies, and raw emotions. Her breakthrough came with 2007’s Little Voice, a platinum-selling album about love, loss, and life as a young woman that garnered comparisons to Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor and, for the single “Love Song,” multiple Grammy nominations. After graduating from UCLA, her demo recordings led to a deal with Epic, which released her debut album, Careful Confessions, in 2004. When Sara Bareilles’ soaring 2007 single “Love Song” appeared at the top of the charts, fans who’d seen the talented singer, songwriter, and pianist performing at open mics around Los Angeles had one question: “What took so long?” Born in Eureka, CA in 1979, Bareilles honed her vocal talents in her school’s choir and local theater productions.
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