2. Song Facts
• Performed by Sara Bareilles
• From the album ‘Little Voice’ 2007
• Track was produced by Eric Rosse
• Music video released 3rd February 2009
• Song was written after her first real heartbreak
• Record label: Epic records
• Song length: 3 mins 52 seconds
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3. Covers
• British singer Louise Dearman covered the song on her second album Here Comes The Sun.
• The song was played by Jeremy Rosado on the semi-finals of the eleventh season of American Idol.
• Kelly Clarkson covered the song in Durham, North Carolina during her Stronger World Tour, in which she praised Bareilles's
voice and lyrics.
• Mary Joyner performed this song for her audition on the seventh season of America's Got Talent.
• Brittany Cairns performed this song for her blind audition on the first season of The Voice - Australia. Cairns' version
peaked at number 58 on the ARIA chart in April 2012.
• Duo Alex & Sierra performed "Gravity" on the third season of The X Factor (U.S.), during the December 11, 2013 semi-final
show.
• Contestant Kerrianne Covell also covered this song for her '6 Chair Challenge' on the eleventh season of The X Factor
• Jessie Pitts performed the song on seventh season of the hit-American television show The Voice, as her last chance
performance.
• The Gardiner Sisters uploaded a cover of this song with 100K views.
• Former Korean girl group Girl's Generation member Jessica Jung sang a cover of this song.
• Produce 101 contestant Jung Eunwoo from Pledis Entertainment trainee group Pledis Girlz sang a cover of this song
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4. Inspiration
• As explained in Sara’s book Sounds Like Me, this song is a about
Sara’s relationship with her high school classmate LR, a popular
sport star in the town. Sara used to live in insecurities because she
used to get laughed for being fat and ugly until LR and her fall in
love. There was so much chemistry going on between these two,
until one day LR cheated on Sara, and she was devastated. She
broke up with LR after that and then get back together. Then they
broke up again after Sara went to UCLA and LR stayed in Eureka, CA.
Yet each time Sara went back from college, they end up together
again and then broke up again.
• This is a song about falling in love with someone even you know it
may hurt you, you just can’t stop going back to that person.
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