{"id":419611,"date":"2026-04-27T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:54:10","slug":"sara-bareilles-i-didnt-really-know-what-i-was-supposed-to-be-doing-i-started-writing-songs-that-i-thought-sounded-like-things-on-the-radio-and-then-i-got-angry-with-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419611\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Bareilles: \u2018I didn&#8217;t really know what I was supposed to be doing. I started writing songs that I thought sounded like things on the radio. And then I got angry with myself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The \u2018Waitress\u2019 star on how the show changed her life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Singer\/songwriter Sara Bareilles. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/36caf5d7-f050-47dd-9dc4-599ec7353826.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Singer\/songwriter Sara Bareilles. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThank you for this therapy session. I don&#8217;t even have to go this week,\u201d says Sara Bareilles with a laugh as she signs off our Zoom call from her Brooklyn home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We\u2019re talking because the two-time Grammy-winner\u2019s new show, Waitress, which opens in the Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018Waitress\u2019 star on how the show changed her life Singer\/songwriter Sara Bareilles. Photo: Getty \u201cThank you for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-419611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}