{"id":3469,"date":"2024-02-29T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2024-02-29T08:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:20:19","slug":"rachel-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>American singer-songwriter Rachel Platten studied classical piano from the age of 5 and then took up guitar in high school. &#8220;1,000 Ships,&#8221; a single from her first album, <em>Be Here<\/em>, peaked at number 23 on the US\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Adult Top 40\u00a0chart. Her real breakthrough came in 2015 when the single &#8220;Fight Song&#8221; charted in numerous countries and reached the top 10 in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland and topped the chart in the UK. The follow up, &#8220;Stand by You,&#8221; although not quite reaching the heights of its predecessor, was also successful. Since then Rachel Platten has released a handful of less successful singles, while her last album was released in 2017. We would argue her music deserves more exposure and success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mercy&#8221; is Rachel&#8217;s latest single and provides serves as an appetizer for her forthcoming new album which is due for release in May. The song is deeply personal. In her own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c<em>I wrote \u2018Mercy\u2019 alone in my studio in the middle of the night, during the darkest part of a very painful battle with my mental health. I ran to my piano and banged on the lower register and let out a guttural cry, \u2018oooh mercy,\u2019 I can\u2019t take anymore, please stop this pain&#8230;&#8230;. It came all at once, so fast that I had to try to catch the words as they spilled out of me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel Platten&#8217;s &#8220;Mercy&#8221; is new this week on RadiJohan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rachel Platten - Mercy (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKdmJhOeoTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American singer-songwriter Rachel Platten studied classical piano from the age of 5 and then took up guitar in high school. &#8220;1,000 Ships,&#8221; a single from her first album, Be Here, peaked at number 23 on the US\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Adult Top 40\u00a0chart. Her real breakthrough came in 2015 when the single &#8220;Fight Song&#8221; charted in numerous countries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-music","tag-rachel-platten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}