Ever since its launch in 2015, Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” has change into a musical illustration of hope for anybody overcoming obstacles or battling tragedy.
As the wildfires in Los Angeles proceed to devastate the town, Platten took the stage at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on Monday (Jan. 13) to carry out her hit earlier than the playoff recreation between the LA Rams and the Minnesota Vikings. “It was such an emotional night. It was so much bigger than me and the song,” she tells Billboard of the second, which served as a tribute to victims of the fires in addition to first responders who’re risking their lives to avoid wasting their metropolis.
Platten and her household are fortunately protected, and have been in a position to return house after a precautionary evacuation. “My heart breaks,” she says. “We know friends who have lost their houses, friends whose schools have burned down. It’s horrifying, and it’s been a really scary experience.”
During her “Fight Song” efficiency, Platten switched up the road within the track’s first verse — “I might only have one match/ But I can make an explosion” — to a becoming and extra acceptable lyric given the circumstances: “We might have been knocked down/ But I know we’ll keep going.”
“I feel really incredibly grateful for the whole night,” she says. “We can do so many things with tragedy. We can mourn together, and we can cry together — but then there are also times to be strong together. What I felt on stage was, ‘May this song touch people like medicine, may this song be healing.’ I did feel feel a reverberation and an echo in the stadium of that hunger for hope in the midst of darkness. Sometimes music can do what words can’t.”
Platten hopes to proceed her message of hope as she embarks on her Set Me Free tour, which kicks off on March 17 in Denver, Colo., and hits a number of cities together with Los Angeles earlier than wrapping on May 9 in Orlando, Fla. “It’s freedom, and it’s earned joy, not superficial way of celebration,” she says of the upcoming run of dwell reveals. “It’s the kind of joy where you’ve been through some shit, and you’ve seen pain and you’ve seen tragedy, and you are choosing to stay strong and resilient. We’re all going to sing and dance, but we’re also going to cry and feel our feelings. Hopefully, the whole tour gives people permission to feel everything.”
Watch Platten carry out “Fight Song” earlier than the Rams and Vikings recreation under.
