Sara Bareilles On: Songs That Write Themselves, Grief That Doesn't Destroy You, and Why There's Nothing To Fix

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Uh Pop songs generally cover romantic love. I um I've recently did a search. Uh for how many songs contain the words I want you and I think and this is a while ago, I think it was like scores, if not hundreds, of songs. However, there are some great pop songs that cover uh weightier, heavier stuff like grief, uh if you think about um Let It Be

Uh Paul McCartney sings about his late mother. Uh Mother Mary. Um also artists like Beyonce and um and Kanye and Frank Ocean have written and sung about grief. And now comes my friend uh Sarah Barellis. Who has recorded a whole album which comes out today. on the subject of grief. It's called Good Grief and it is accompanied by a documentary which is quite beautiful and a whole tour. Um if you have never heard of Sarah

I don't know uh what's the matter with you, but if you've never heard of Sarah, she's a uh a Grammy winning songwriter, the composer and star of Waitress on Broadway, and much, much more. And a friend of mine, as I said. Sarah Barellis. Welcome back to the show. Hello, Daniel. I um

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