She's headlining April 23 at Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza in New York City; playing preshow and mainstage sets May 17 at Z100's Zootopia 2008 radio show at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J.; and joining Maroon 5 and the Counting Crows on Aug. 15 at the New England Dodge Music Center in Hartford.In each case, Bareilles will perform songs from her gold-selling major label debut, "Little Voice," which came out July 3 on Epic Records."I don't have anything to compare it to," Bareilles said of the feeling of having a huge hit on radio in an April 10 interview from the Los Angeles area. "I'm of the mind set that nothing lasts forever and I'm stoked that things have gone as well as they have this far. If it all ended tomorrow, it'd be OK. I would still play music and still love what I do. You know, I think it's kind of a kick in the pants that this happened at all!"The impetus for "Love Song" came when Bareilles turned in a number of songs that "nobody liked" and, in turn, became angry and frustrated with Epic. The song's lyrics include: "I'm not gonna write you a love song / 'cause you asked for it / 'cause you need one, you see.""It was just turning in material and having people not like it," Bareilles said. "It's the first time I'd really collaborated with people and gotten their feedback on my material. So I think I got very stubborn and turned off by the whole idea."Everyone seemed to really like the song," Bareilles said of her label's initial reaction. "I don't think they really knew that it was about my frustrations with the label, but everyone was really happy with having an upbeat song to add to the repertoire."So were fans, who have purchased more than 1.3 million downloads of the song to date.A second single, "Bottle It Up," has already been released." 'Bottle It Up,' actually I wrote that before I ever had a record deal about what it would feel like to have a record deal!" Bareilles said. "It's basically trying to wrap my brain around the idea of being an artist in the public eye and not feeling like you've sold out and how do you sell your art. And the chorus kind of says it all. It says, 'I do it for love.' That really became sort of the clarification for me. It was, 'As long as I'm making my decisions and doing this out of a place of love, then other things will work themselves out.' "Born Dec. 7, 1979, Sara Beth Bareilles grew up in Eureka, Calif., in Humboldt County -- which is known as a marijuana-growing Mecca."It seems to be the only thing anybody knows about Humboldt County," Bareilles said. "You tell them you're from Humboldt County and everybody automatically assumes that either you grow weed or you have it with you. It's funny because my family is actually pretty conservative. But I had friends whose parents were growing in the backyard!"What I know it for is it's a real artistic community up there," she added. "It's a very small town, very rural -- but gorgeous. It is so beautiful up there. It's basically nestled in amongst all these millions of acres of Redwood trees and it's just beautiful. It's right on the ocean. It's not very far from rivers and lakes. It was a wonderful place to grow up."Sara's father, Paul Bareilles, is an insurance adjuster and a logger; mother Bonnie Halvorsen works at a funeral home. Sara has two sisters -- Jenny and Stacey.Growing up, Sara got into Broadway music and musical theater -- as well as the Mickey Mouse Club, VH1 "Storytellers" and whatever was on the radio."The first single I bought was 'You Can Call Me Al' by Paul Simon," recalled Bareilles, a fan of Fiona Apple's music as well.After high school, Bareilles attended UCLA, where she majored in communications and earned her degree while singing in the campus a cappella group, Awaken. Her classmates included future Maroon 5 members Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick.Bareilles performed at open mics and small venues at first. After releasing two demos, she put out her indy debut, "Careful Confessions," in 2004. She processed relationships and her journey of self-exploration through her songs."(The title) is just a lyric from one of the songs on there," Bareilles said. "It's a song called 'Responsible' and there's a line about careful confessions. That's kind of what those songs are; they're very private. They're like little confessions."Sharing her private feelings through her songs isn't really all that scary, she said."It's kind of the only place where it feels really natural and normal to bear your soul -- at least for me," Bareilles said. "So I look forward to it. It's a nice place to speak your mind and your heart and not feel like you're gonna be judged for it, although you do get judged for it. But for some reason, it doesn't feel as bad."Bareilles said she's glad she didn't sign a record deal before graduating from college."I think if anything would have happened to me at a younger age, I would have had a mental breakdown!" she said. "I definitely feel like it's very beneficial to know who you are and know what you want before things start moving for you. Or at least, in my experience, I'm grateful it happened that way. I think it's very easy to lose yourself in this industry and there's so much self-doubt that can come along. So if you're a little bit older and you have some more years and experience under your belt, I think it's easier to stay true to who you are."Before Bareilles' "Little Voice" LP came out in stores, "Love Song" was offered as a free download on iTunes. The singer got another promotional push when she appeared in commercials for the Rhapsody digital music service.The title "Little Voice" is a reference to a song Bareilles wrote in a dream."I wrote a song and it's sort of about your conscience and your inner voice and just being really connected to yourself and how to move forward and really speak your mind," she said. "I felt like as the process was getting started, I was feeling really lost and I didn't know what my own opinion was. I didn't know how to communicate. And then I started to really focus it on the idea of my own little voice, the fact that I had the answers inside me; I just had to be able to hear them. So it became a really special idea to me and something that was very intrinsic to the whole process of recording the album."
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