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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 25 May 2019
Amidst the chaos, Sara Bareilles finds a new voice

Associated Press camouflaged love songs
NEW YORK (AP) — Feeling like "No Such Thing" and "If
"lost" after Donald Trump I Can't Have You."
won the U.S. presidential "Those are basically direct
election, Sara Bareilles love songs to the Obamas,
found herself in a medita- which I feel like at some
tion class to help deal with point I'm gonna get a
the new American reality. cease-and-desist because
"I felt like the world was on I'm such a fan-girl," Bareilles
fire and I didn't have any said with a laugh. "I'm a
tools to just cope with the proud believer in their mes-
idea that I was in a catas- saging and their leadership
trophe," she said. "It was just and their grace. So I found
like apocalyptic for me." that after the election, I
The one thing she could was really heartbroken. I
do? Write songs. think a lot of people were."
Her emotions, combined But don't be confused —
with navigating through an "Chaos" is not anti-Trump
increasingly divided coun- music as there are no men-
try, led to her latest album, tions of the president by
"Amidst the Chaos." This March 26, 2019 photo shows musician Sara Bareilles posing for a portrait in New York. name on the project. In-
"For me the thing that al- Associated Press stead, it features Bareilles
ways stays the most impor- speaking out more than
tant is to feel that I'm being boasted the successful sin- "What's Inside: Songs from "The algorithms may place ever.
authentic and truthful in gle "Brave" and scored her Waitress," in 2015. her in more of a pop place "I'm 39 now, I turn 40 this
terms of what my messag- a Grammy nomination for Bareilles said theater "took with Katy Perry or some- year," she said. "When I look
ing is," Bareilles said. "And I album of the year. During over my whole life," and she thing like that. (But) as an back on my life, I want to
think I've gotten less afraid." that gap, she wrote music wanted to write music for artist, as a songwriter, she's feel like I was outspoken
"Chaos," released last for and later starred in the herself again. That's when much closer to Dylan," Bur- for the things that really fall
month, marks her return to Broadway musical, "Wait- she got in touch with iconic nett said. into my belief system and
pop music after a nearly six- ress." She's earned two Tony producer T Bone Burnett, Labeling "Chaos" a politi- the causes and the people
year hiatus. It follows 2013's Award nominations and re- who has won 13 Grammys cal album, however, is fair that I believe deserve ad-
"The Blessed Unrest," which leased the theater album, and an Oscar. — and unfair. It's filled with vocacy. q

Exhibits about Ali, nature, motorcycles opening at Graceland

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A bar designed to resemble
massive new exhibition the famous "Jungle Room"
and entertainment hall is in Presley's former home.
set to open at Elvis Presley's Bringing the lives of Ali and
Graceland in Tennessee Presley together at Grace-
with three museum-style land is fitting because of
exhibits, including one fo- their impact on their pro-
cused on the life and ca- fessions, and on American
reer of late boxing great and global culture, said
Muhammad Ali. Joel Weinshanker, manag-
Graceland officials say ing partner of Graceland
the 80,000-square-foot Holdings.
( 7 , 4 3 2 - s q u a r e - m e t e r ) "They were pop culture
Graceland Exhibition Cen- revolutionaries. They were
ter opens Saturday to both born very poor," Wein-
guests visiting the Presley- shanker said. "They weren't
themed tourist attraction in emulating anyone, they
Memphis. The singer, actor weren't copying anyone.
and pop icon lived in Mem- They were just getting out
phis until his death on Aug. what was inside of them."
16, 1977. He said he hopes the new,
Presley and Ali were known Motorcycles sit in an exhibition hall at the Graceland tourist attraction on Wednesday, May 22, $20 million hall will at-
to be friends. Presley once 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. tract more conventions to
gave Ali a custom-made Associated Press Graceland while bringing
robe in Las Vegas in the more large traveling exhib-
early 1970s. A replica of tutorial by the boxer, who Geographic Presents: Earth ready features Presley's its to the city — including
that robe is part of the Ali died in June 2016. Explorers," allows visitors to home-turned museum, a those that have nothing
exhibit, along with photos Also scheduled to open learn about polar regions, 450-room hotel and an en- to do with Presley. "Space:
of the heavyweight boxing Saturday is an exhibit fea- oceans, rain forests, moun- tertainment complex that An Out-Of-Gravity Experi-
and civil rights champion turing a collection of mo- tains, caves, and the Afri- holds a concert venue, ence," which features inter-
and other artifacts. torcycles, ranging from can savanna. Presley-related exhibits and active exhibits about living
Visitors will be able to hit a basic to flashy, spanning The exhibition hall is part restaurants. The new exhi- and working in space, is
punching bag and learn decades of design. A third of a yearslong expansion bition hall also includes a scheduled to open Oct. 11
the Ali shuffle from a video exhibit, called "National at Graceland, which al- food hall and a full-service at the new hall.q