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Bareilles wrote the song as a response to pressure from her record label to write a love song.
View background statusSara Bareilles
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About Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles developed as a singer, songwriter and pianist through school music, theater and performances in Los Angeles. Careful Confessions preceded her wider breakthrough with Little Voice and Love Song in 2007. Kaleidoscope Heart and The Blessed Unrest followed, the latter including Brave. She then expanded into musical theater by writing for Waitress and performing in the show, with a later television appearance as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar Live.
Artist background sources
Apple Music - Sara Bareilles artist biography
Read licensed biography for performance development, album/repertoire sequence and theater/television roles. Omit the false Epic-release claim for Careful Confessions, chart-position errors and award totals. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
2007
2008
Love Song
Sara BareillesReported release: 2007Date needs verification | Recent carryover
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Bareilles wrote the song as a response to pressure from her record label to write a love song.
View background status2010
Artist background available
Sara Bareilles developed as a singer, songwriter and pianist through school music, theater and performances in Los Angeles. Careful Confessions preceded her wider breakthrough with Little Voice and Love Song in 2007....
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Bareilles wrote the song to encourage a friend to come out as gay.
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Bareilles wrote the song to encourage a friend to come out as gay.
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