While she struck a chord with her confessional pop rock, there was very little actual confessing in her songs.
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(Last year, she appeared on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee after Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican primaries to repurpose "Goodbye to You" again-this time as a kiss-off called "Goodbye Ted Cruz.") Her 2003 follow-up, Hotel Paper, spawned two more hits: the Grammy-nominated "Are You Happy Now?" and "Breath." Her next two singles continued to build on her fellow teens' appetite for romantic reverie: "All You Wanted," a catchy anthem about unrequited love, and "Goodbye to You," a break-up ballad from Broken Bracelet that she repurposed into a rousing torch song. The lead single, "Everywhere," a full-throated, shout-it-from-the-rooftops love song, quickly burrowed into the teen consciousness and ascended the Billboard charts, where it stayed for 20 weeks. Two years later, in 2001, Branch released The Spirit Room. At 16 she joined the major label machine. "It broke the day I signed to Maverick Records."īy the time she walked into the Maverick offices, Branch had already opened for Hansen, but the invitation to meet with the label, founded in part by Madonna under the Warner Bros. "I was like, 'Okay, mister!'" says Branch with a mock eye roll. When it broke, he said, she would become famous. Jewel had made the bracelet herself, he told her. Branch named it after this "ratty, beaded" thing given to her by Steve Poltz, she says, an indie guitarist and frequent Jewel collaborator whom she met backstage at a Lisa Loeb concert. At her shows, she sold a self-produced album, financed by her parents and later released by an indie label-a collection of lilting folk songs about love (or what a teenage girl imagined as love) called Broken Bracelet. She eventually convinced her parents to let her split her time between Los Angeles and Sedona and finished up high school through homeschooling. "Because they served alcohol, the minute I was done, I would have to leave the venue," she says.
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Soon, with the help of her parents, she was playing gigs-a mix of original music and Lisa Loeb, Sheryl Crow, and Fleetwood Mac covers-at local bars and restaurants around her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. But the past fourteen years were anything but fallow for Branch-and now, with a new label, a new life partner and musical collaborator in the Black Keys' Patrick Carney, and a new (and wildly different) album, Hopeless Romantic, she's back to reintroduce herself.īranch began writing and composing her own music at 14, after her parents bought her a guitar for her birthday. Even for fans who have the lyrics to her hits drilled into some layer of their subconscious, she was often still a product of early aughts nostalgia. In that time, Branch got married, had a child, separated from her husband, put out an album as part of a country music duo, and … largely disappeared. It's been 14 years since Branch released her last solo album. In between Britney Spears, the schoolgirl sexpot of pop, and the anti-Britney Avril Lavigne, with her Hot Topic-bought hostility, was Branch: the Everygirl. In record time, she staked a place in the musical landscape. With two platinum albums and a crop of wildly catchy singles- "Everywhere," "All You Wanted," and "Are You Happy Now"-she was the voice of every love-struck high-schooler in the country, and still a teenager herself. In 2003, Michelle Branch seemed to flash-freeze in our collective pop cultural memory as the girl in hip-hugging boot-cut jeans and a black tank top. Fourteen years after her last solo album, the "Everywhere" singer-songwriter is back with Hopeless Romantic, and ready to claim what major label execs wouldn't give her all those years ago: control.
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