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Sara Bareilles' label retort
23 June 2008
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Sara Bareilles wrote her debut single in response to a fight with her record company.The singer penned 'Love Song' after tiring of the way Epic records were trying to influence her music.She explained: "We had gone into the studio to start recording my album 'Little Voice'. I had turned in some new material but I got the sense that nobody thought it was good. I felt insecure. I was driving to rehearsal, listening to the radio and thinking, 'What would the record company like to hear on the radio?'"I was so angry that I was allowing their opinion to dictate my art. I threw up a prayer to the universe, saying, 'Can I just write something for me, so I know I'm still here?' 'Love Song' literally tumbled out."Sara also claims she has had to fight to be heard because she doesn't fit the traditional 'pop princess' mould.She added: "Because I'm a young female and I sing pop music, it would have been easier for them to fit me in the pop-princess mould - Jessica Simpson or Britney Spears. "Music is a boys' club and I never realised what a feminist I was until I saw how people would disregard my existence, talk about me as if I wasn't in the room. That really lit a fire and I've become stubborn in speaking up for myself."My role is to defend and preserve my songs. That's all I have. I have only ever wanted to be me: the small-town dorky tomboy with my heart on my sleeve. I'm not a glamour girl. I have never understood why you have to pretend you're something else."
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