Home
Release date: June 3, 2026
Genre:Folk Pop
Label:Epic Records
Sara Bareilles released Home, the lead single from her upcoming album Good Grief, out August 28. The song was inspired by Anderson Cooper and Stephen Colbert’s conversation about grief, which already makes the whole thing feel like we are being asked to sit down, breathe, and maybe not pretend everything is fine for once.
The writing is sharp as always, but Home leans into a more folk-rooted warmth. It does not feel like Sara is trying to make grief huge or theatrical. Instead, the song feels close, careful, and lived in. It has that very Sara Bareilles quality where the melody feels comforting, but the words are quietly pulling something out of you.
What I love most is her ability to connect with other people’s stories and still tell them through her own lens. This track is not directly autobiographical, but it never feels distant. It feels personal because she sounds deeply connected to what she is singing. That is the gift here: she can take someone else’s conversation about loss and turn it into something universal without making it feel borrowed.
Time to cry, reflect, and check what is actually going on with us. Period.
Ed has loved music for as long as he can remember. He is a graduate student at NYU studying Music Business, with a focus on marketing, artist development and PR. In his free time, he writes songs, follows pop culture way too closely, and runs music fan pages online.