“I would want to be authentic, so if it happened I would want to speak from my heart. “I haven’t written anything down,” she admitted. Like, for example, whether or not she should be preparing notes for a possible pair of victory speeches (she’s also up for Album of the Year). There’s better s- to do than worry about that stuff.”

“It’s an old paradigm of pitting people against each other based on the idea that there’s not enough-not enough fans, not enough music lovers, not enough space for both of you, so you have to hate each other. I find that to be really fatiguing,” she said. “Katy and I have known each other a really long time, she’s a friend of mine, and it seemed like there was this infusion of people wanting to create conflict and drama.

People really felt like Katy was ripping me off, and I disagree.”īareilles was most frustrated by the fact that she was apparently supposed to be rivals with Perry. “It’s not my nature, and it’s not reflective of what I feel I hope to incite in people. “I was surprised and to be honest disappointed at how vicious people were,” Bareilles tells EW. If Sunday represents an end to the controversy, that will suit Bareilles just fine. This Sunday’s Grammy Awards just might bring some resolution to that argument - or at least declare a “winner”: Both tracks are nominated for best pop solo performance, alongside Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man,” Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors,” and Lorde’s “Royals.” One of the more intriguing pop controversies of 2013 was the friendly fire exchanged over t he perceived similarities between Katy Perry’s “Roar” and Sara Bareilles’ “Brave.”

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