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What's Inside: Songs from Waitress (2015)
Where the lyrics of What's Inside: Songs from Waitress take you, and where it was really made.
Songs written for a Broadway musical became Bareilles' own album, and the musical's songs were reworked to sound like her solo material.
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Recording began at Electric Lady Studios (2015)
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Album story
Overview
- What's Inside: Songs from Waitress is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles
- Released November 6, 2015 through Epic Records
- Lead single "She Used to Be Mine" released digitally on September 25, 2015
- Features songs from the musical Waitress, for which Bareilles wrote the music and lyrics
- The musical is based on the 2007 film of the same name
- Track listing has 12 songs, including "You Matter to Me" featuring Jason Mraz
Background
- In June 2013, it was reported that Bareilles would score Waitress
- The musical opened on August 20, 2015 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Directed by Diane Paulus, with Jessie Mueller in the leading role
- While writing the musical, Bareilles said she fell more deeply in love with its writing than she had imagined
- She decided to record the songs because she could not picture handing them over to the show without first singing them herself
- In a June 2015 Google Hangout Q&A, she confirmed the musical's songs would be reworked to sound like Sara Bareilles songs
- Bareilles took over the lead from Mueller for a 10-week limited run starting March 31, 2017
- She returned to the role from January 16 to March 11, 2018, overlapping with Jason Mraz
Recording
- Work on the album began in April 2015 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City
- Producer Neal Avron had previously worked with Bareilles on Kaleidoscope Heart
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Artist
Early life
- Born December 7, 1979 in Eureka, California.
- Studied communication studies at UCLA and sang in the co-ed a cappella group Awaken a Cappella.
- Taught herself several instruments, including piano.
Career
- Self-published the debut album Careful Confessions in 2004, then signed with Epic Records in 2005.
- Breakthrough album Little Voice (2007); lead single "Love Song" peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Kaleidoscope Heart (2010) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200; The Blessed Unrest (2013) earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.
- Composed music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Waitress (2015), earning Tony and Grammy nominations.
- Known for television work, including Mary Magdalene in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018) and the lead role in Girls5eva.
- Won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for several Primetime Emmy and Tony Awards.
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Reception
At release
- AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated the album four out of five stars
- Erlewine writes that the songs are lively, clever, and bold
- He calls the record further evidence of Bareilles' versatility, elegance, and wit
- The Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman calls it "a great pop album."
- Both reviews cited here are positive
Records
- What's Inside debuted at number ten on the US Billboard 200 chart
- First-week total: 30,000 album-equivalent units
- Pure album sales in the first week: 27,000 copies
- The release was Bareilles' fifth US top-ten album
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Trivia
- Bareilles first performed one song from the musical, "She Used to Be Mine", during some shows on her Little Black Dress Tour
- On June 27, 2015, she and Nadia DiGiallonardo performed "She Used to Be Mine" on A Prairie Home Companion with Rich Dworsky and The Berkshire Boys
- The album's title was revealed in September 2015
- The musical closed its A.R.T. run on September 27, 2015, then moved to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway in April 2016
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