Many of the tracks are comments on the contemporary political hailstorm-one song was a response to the #MeToo movement, and another was about Trump’s anti-immigration policies. She recorded her most recent album, “Amidst the Chaos,” in 2019, with the storied producer T Bone Burnett. The sitcom “Girls5eva,” created by the team behind “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” pokes inventive fun at one-hit-wonder girl bands. It’s the story of a woman who’s abused by her husband and finds solace in baking.
Before her performance in “Into the Woods” came her work as the songwriter for the musical “ Waitress,” which ran for more than fifteen hundred performances. Is it always ‘or’? Is it never ‘and’?”Īs a result, Bareilles has stealthily made her mark in more varied ways, burrowing into more vital places in the culture than Apple Music’s Pop Hits Radio. As the Baker’s Wife sings after her tryst, “Why not both instead? There’s the answer, if you’re clever. . . . But she also continues to put out increasingly complex albums. She has written the score for a Broadway show and starred in a sitcom. I mean, there’s nothing to see.” She wanted to open up to different creative challenges and invitations.
“I’m not that interested in being that interesting. She never truly yearned to be a pop star: “My first record came up next to Katy Perry, and it’s, like, a totally different thing.” “I’m not that interesting in that way,” she says. She says now that this was not really her. Her chestnut hair was in braids, and she wore a flowery shirt. “Piano-based pop soul, I guess,” Bareilles answered, in a voice so soft you have to lean in to hear it. During a video interview at the time of “Love Song,” with the Daily Mirror of London, the interviewer asked the hot new singer to describe her musical style. “Love Song” and “Brave” went triple platinum. During those years, Bareilles was often compared with Taylor Swift, another singer-songwriter bringing a similar message to the mass market: that sensitive young women would no longer be suckers. You can turn a phrase into / a weapon or a drug.” You know you remember them.īut there was always another side to her. She will forever be the slightly angsty girl with the long brown hair hatching earworms from her piano: “I’m not gonna write you a love song / ’Cause you asked for it / ’Cause you need one.” And: “You can be amazing. For pop listeners now moving into their thirties, she’ll remain best known as the singer-songwriter of two monster hits, “Love Song,” from 2007, and “Brave,” from 2013. But, whether that comes to pass or not, Bareilles, who is forty-two, will doubtless stay an unusual sort of bisected celebrity. Listen to her delicate stop-and-start argument with herself in her apologia of the tryst, “Moments in the Woods.”Ī Tony nomination seems a strong possibility. You can pick her out among all the amazing singers-the slightly earthier mezzo-soprano timbre and the soaring notes when she opens things up, a bit of pop fizz seeping from under the cap. Her sound, in a cast gifted with extraordinary voices, is remarkable. I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t love Bareilles’s performance in “Into the Woods.” On the stage, in the show’s many ensemble numbers, Bareilles is like a human playfully hiding in a Disney World skit and, at the same time, a spritely presence peeking out in a game of guess-who’s-the-pop-star. She is the relatable focus of a show where every other character is a cultural icon. After her wishes come true, she finds life with a baker and an infant boring, and hooks up with a prince, then sings of her sort-of regret. She desperately wants a child, and once she has one, understandably, she wants a bigger house in which to raise him. She’s skeptical, hurt, and a bit bitter, like a character in a Paula Fox novel. In a musical that is mostly a dizzying roundelay of Grimms’ fairy tales-Jack climbs his beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood squares off against the Wolf-the Baker’s Wife stands out. It’s a role that’s passed like a crown from one talented actress to the next. She is currently starring in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “ Into the Woods.” In the musical, she plays the Baker’s Wife, a part that Joanna Gleason-who played the wife when the show débuted on Broadway, in 1987-first made famous, and that Imelda Staunton and Amy Adams later performed. Sara Bareilles has a talent for finding the human center of things.
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