Sara Bareilles Deserves That Album of the Year GRAMMY Nomination
When the Album of the Year Grammy nominations were announced at the Grammy 2014 Nominations Concert Friday night, everything was going status quo. Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' The Heist and Taylor Swift's Red were all basically shoe-ins. And everyone probably thought Kendrick Lamar's beloved Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City was the wrench in the machine... until Sara Bareilles' A Blessed Unrest was announced.
Wait, what?
Casual music fans might have heard the pop singer-songwriter's name come up this year soon after Katy Perry's first Prism single "Roar" was released—Sara mega fans were claiming that "Roar" was almost an exact rip-off of Bareilles' lesser known A Blessed Unrest single, "Brave" (which was nominated this year for Best Pop Solo Performance.) The hashtag #KatyVsSara even trended on Twitter. Despite the songs' similar qualities—listen to a side-by-side comparison and decide for yourself—the two ladies both went on record saying there were no hard feelings.
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