{"id":484385,"date":"2019-04-07T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=818754"},"modified":"2019-04-07T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:00:06","slug":"watch-sara-bareilles-deliver-harmonic-power-ballad-fire-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-sara-bareilles-deliver-harmonic-power-ballad-fire-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sara Bareilles Deliver Harmonic Power Ballad \u2018Fire\u2019 on \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-07-at-11.18.35-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>To coincide with the April 5th release of her new album <em>Amidst the Chaos<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sara-bareilles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sara-bareilles\" data-tag=\"sara-bareilles\">Sara Bareilles<\/a> made her <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> debut as the musical guest of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-recaps\/kit-harington-snl-recap-818733\/\">the Kit Harington-hosted episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For her first song of the night, Bareilles performed her smoldering power ballad \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sara-bareilles-fire-video-amidst-the-chaos-new-album-797355\/\">Fire<\/a>\u201d at a piano accompanied by a live band, set against a backdrop of flame-inspired decor.<\/p>\n<p>The singer later returned to the piano in Studio 8H with the gospel-tinged confessional \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-sara-bareilles-single-saint-honesty-811779\/\">Saint Honesty<\/a>\u201d from her new album. She also stunned the audience with her powerhouse vocals on a jaw-dropping solo mid-song.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZHgmb65JS8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Amidst the Chaos<\/em>, produced by T Bone Burnett, marks Bareilles\u2019 fifth studio album. The record is a follow-up to Bareilles\u2019 2013 LP <em>The Blessed Unrest<\/em>. In the time since her last release, she penned the score to <em>Waitress<\/em> and also made her Broadway debut starring as the lead in the musical. For her performance, she earned a Tony nomination for Best Original Score. Last year, Bareilles won an Emmy for her performance as Mary Magdalene in <em>Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sara-bareilles-fire-saint-honesty-snl-818754\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To coincide with the April 5th release of her new album Amidst the Chaos, Sara Bareilles made her Saturday Night Live debut as the musical guest of the Kit Harington-hosted episode. For her first song of the night, Bareilles performed her smoldering power ballad \u201cFire\u201d at a piano accompanied by a live band, set against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 17:29:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}