Love Song (Sara Bareilles) – 2007

While speaking with Glamour, Sara Bareilles revealed that the real story of “Love Song” has gotten shortened to a one-liner that’s less factually accurate. She claims that a very large portion of people believe this song is about her marching into her record label’s office, and telling them she wouldn’t write a love song. But she later clarified that it wasn’t such a simple situation.

What really happened is that she went through a series of difficult co-writing sessions at the direction of her record label, but ultimately penned the now-famous song, which she describes as a love letter to her crafts.