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NEW YORK – On her new single, Rachel Platten invites you to dance on the shattered glass ceiling. Platten, 36, started writing the album late last year and was inspired by the boundary-pushing ...
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Rachel Platten last year released the independent album "I Am Rachel Platten," which addresses her battle with postpartum depression. She will be perform at the Masquerade in Atlanta on May 6, 2025.
One of her compositions was “Fight Song.” It got picked up for airplay by a Baltimore radio station, Mix 106.5, and soon got record labels noticing Platten as well.
In January, Platten released her third album and major-label debut, “Wildfire,” which hit No. 5 on the Billboard 200. We spoke to her from a tour stop in Pennsylvania.
Ever since its release in 2015, Rachel Platten's "Fight Song" has become a musical representation of hope for anyone overcoming obstacles or struggling with tragedy. As the wildfires in Los ...
Platten’s music seeped into millions of ears last year with the explosion of her inspirational pop anthem, “Fight Song” and its equally bubbly and uplifting follow-up, “Stand By You.” It ...
As simple as “Fight Song” is, every word is fraught with competing emotions, desperation and anger and defiance and triumph. Without that intensity, Platten’s songs ring a bit too ordinary.
The "Fight Song" singer's new album is now out. — -- Rachel Platten’s “Waves” ***1/2 Rachel Platten hit the big time with “Fight Song,” a song from her major label debut "Wildfire ...
Finding inspiration. As she records an album to release later this year, Platten prints messages from fans of Fight Song and puts them on pieces of posterboard covering the walls of the studio.
After ‘Fight Song,’ Rachel Platten looks inward for inspiration ‘I decided to just write these songs for me,’ she says of album By Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...