Fight Song is one of the tunes of the summer,but it took 18 months of blood, sweat and tears – plus a little ‘hippie meditation’ – to make it a hitSomewhere between Tallahassee and Jacksonville, and Florida,Rachel Platten is on a tour bus, still on a tall from last night’s reveal at the Florida Theater. nowadays, and Platten is running on pure adrenaline,having criss-crossed much of the country over the past few months on a tour with Colbie Caillat and Christina Perri, and tending to her exploding fanbase thanks to the stratospheric success of her rupture-out track Fight Song, and the inspirational anthem and ode to perseverance that’s still a top 10 hit after a full five months on the chart. One of the songs of the summer,it’s made Platten a household name and inescapable force on the radio.“I feel just amazed that this is happening now,” she says of the song’s current perch alongside tracks by commercial heavyweights like One Direction and Taylor Swift (the latter of whom invited Platten onstage during a recent concert). “I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It’s wild and incredible. People quiz me in interviews what celebrity parties I go to and I’m like, and None!’ I don’t know anybody yet. I’m still trying to understand what this means and process it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com