King of Anything (Kaleidoscope Heart, 2010)
But he’s like an addiction and she keeps coming back for more (“Okay we’ll do it your way”).”Ħ. He still has a strong effect on her (“Tongue tied and twisted… go to my head”) and they still get together, but it only ends up hurting her.
The problem is that they just don’t work in a relationship (“You plus me is bad news”). However they’re still a part of each other’s lives, and they still care about each other (“You’re a lovely creation and I like to think that I am too”). “The song is about a relationship that didn’t work out (“I worked so hard for this love of mine / Still I got nothing to show for it”). Love it Such an incredible, and often overlooked, song”ħ. “The lyrics to this song are just so genius. Every time I listen to this song or it snows, I think of him.”Ĩ. I just stood there in the snow listening to “Calling out, somebody save me, I feel like I’m fading away” and that just amazed me. The day of his funeral, I was listening to this song on my mp3 player, and I walked outside, as soon as I looked up there was nothing but snow. The next day, I was waiting to be picked up from school and my mom called and told me he died, as soon as she said that, I saw tiny snowflakes outside of the window. It was the last thing he said to me, and I told his ‘No, not yet.” He nodded a little. My grandfather asked me if it was snowing outside the night he was in the hospital for cancer. “This song is so chilling to me now, and the reason it is that way has nothing to do with the songs meaning. And your problems will not disappear, they will always follow you wherever you go (can’t escape a sky that’s falling)” People think that if they move to a big city everything will magically get better, but it doesn’t. “Basically she’s saying if things are bad in your life, giving up everything you DO have and running away is not going to help you, it’s going to hurt you. Her melisma and vocal prowess shines vibrantly here.” “Not only a wonderful song to play on piano, but this song rolls along with such brightness and attention to detail that it cannot go unnoticed. Here are all of Sara Bareilles’s songs ranked. In 2015, she released her The New York Times-bestselling memoir, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song. In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.
She has earned nominations for eight Grammy Awards, with one win, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Tony Awards. Bareilles has sold over one million albums and over nine million singles in the United States. In 2013, she released her fourth studio album The Blessed Unrest, which earned two Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year. In 2011, Bareilles served as a judge in the third season of the NBC singing competition series The Sing-Off. In 2010, she released her third studio album Kaleidoscope Heart, with its lead single “King of Anything” earning a Grammy Award nomination. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned her two Grammy Award nominations, including Song of the Year. The album included the hit single “Love Song”, which reached no. She received further recognition with the release of her second studio album Little Voice (2007). Bareilles released her debut studio album Careful Confessions in 2004. Sara Beth Bareilles (born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, and producer.