Clearly, this won’t be enough to spark any “drama” between the two performers.Īll love, everybody. I heart you : - Katy Perry May 16, 2013īareilles is also being very mature about the whole thing. Now, Katy Perry is clearly a Bareilles fan, as this tweet, dating back to May, shows. The similarity was then noted on various social networks and it even spawned this mashup, which arguably sounds better than either song separately. Perry is reportedly a big fan of Sara Bareilles.Īfter the release of Katy Perry’s new track this Saturday, fans were quick to find the problem – this is the internet after all. In Perry’s case, that would be the claim that her new single, Roar, bears a striking resemblance to Sara Bareilles’s Brave. Watch an interview with Bareilles and Antonoff talking about their experience working together on “Brave” and listen to the full track in the videos below.Things have been looking up for Katy Perry lately – with a new single out and an upcoming performance at the VMAs, the pop princess’s career is picking up again, but success rarely comes without controversy.

'Brave' is the first single off Bareilles' highly anticipated third studio album, The Blessed Unrest, which is set for release on July 16th. “It’s important to be brave because by doing that you also give others permission to do the same.” “I think there’s so much honor and integrity and beauty in being able to be who you are,” Bareilles said, citing one of the many reasons she was compelled to write the lyrics for the song.

“I’ll always internalize it as a real civil rights anthem at a time when there are no civil rights anthems and there’s a giant need for ,” he said in a recent video interview promoting the single. The song, which she wrote with Fun lead guitarist Jack Antonoff, is destined to become an LGBT anthem for the ages and was inspired by one of Bareilles’s close friends, who was struggling with coming out of the closest.Īntonoff applauds the track’s LGBT appeal, noting that while the song will undoubtedly take on a variety of meanings for different people it will always be linked to the current civil rights movement in his mind.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love or you can start speaking up,” croons pop performer Sara Bareilles on her latest single, “Brave.” You can turn a phrase in to a weapon or a drug.

Sara bareilles brave official video