Caught Eureka's own Sara Bareilles on Letterman a few weeks ago and can't get her song Bottle it Up out of my head. As in Love Song, Sara spices her jazzy pop with a dollop of frustration with how some people want to guide her career (already?). If I'm not mistaken, she "borrows" the "love, love, love" melody, slowed down, from the Beatles' All You Need is Love, but redeems herself with lyrics like: "Soon as you start to make room for the parts that aren't you it gets harder to bloom in a garden of love."
Bottle It Up is one of those rare love songs on the charts that's not talking about the same old I-love-you-why-don't-you-love-me drama. There are a couple of songs on Sara's album that mention Love but are obviously referring to a whole nutha level. So the reference to the Beatles song is appropriate. Lately I've been experiencing a lot of coincidences related to the concept of Love. I have Sara to thank for reminding me of all the Sufi poets who wrote hundreds of years ago of their gardens and the importance of Love:
He who would know the secret of both worlds
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.
-Fariduddin Attar (12th-13th century)
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