She could have called it “Great Grief,” but that would have been immodest. Sara Bareilles‘ “Good Grief,” her first new studio album in seven years, is one of the year’s finest achievements from a singer-songwriter… and its purely musical delights are such that you might feel that way about it even if you haven’t been through some shit, as they say.
\n\nIf you have, all the better to relate to the record and its sometimes somber, sometimes playful meditations on a whole catalog of grief (and grievances): losing best friends to death at too early an age, dealing with fertility struggles, running to and away from the precipice of love, eroding women’s rights, mental health issues, and the challenges of continuing to believe in the promise of America.
\n\nVariety had an in-depth conversation with Bareilles about the new album and many of the tough or inspiring issues related to it — along with touching on a recently released documentary film that captures some of the making of the record, “Sara Bareilles: Good Grief,” and her first real tour of the 2020s, which has just gotten underway and includes dates Sept. 18-19 at Radio City Music Hall and Oct. 12-14 at…
Original source: https://variety.com/