Sara Bareilles wrote Good Grief starting in 2020, processing the pandemic, two friends' deaths, her infertility, and the state of democracy. She calls it transformative grief, not a sad record but one about moving through loss toward something new.
Let's talk about your new album. Okay. What is it called? It's called Good Grief, and, um, it's about grief. Wait, good grief though. Over the last— since I've been writing this since 2020, and it's just every kind of loss. So COVID to now. COVID, 2 best friends who passed away, my infertility journey, the death of democracy, like all of the things. Everything's in there. It's just like, I know, I know to be true for a fact that there is plenty of hope in the record as well. It's not a— it's not somber. Well, it's good grief. Yeah, it's good grief. It's transformative grief.
