Sara Bareilles did 21 Questions with Alloy TV, including the first instrument she learned to play, her first car, first music video she ever saw, favorite cereal and board game, and more. Watch the responses via YouTube below.

Sara Bareilles spoke with PopEater about her new album ‘Kaleidoscope Heart’, which is out next Tuesday (September 7) on Epic Records. “The writing process was definitely different in the sense that I was thinking about the fact that I would be playing these songs for an audience, and after three years of touring, you realize maybe what you’re missing as a performer,” Sara explained. “I was consciously trying to write songs that were a little more upbeat so I would have a more balanced set. Because also they’d be more fun to play and move your booty to a little bit, so I definitely made an effort to go in that direction this time around.” Watch the comments via AOL below.

Sara Bareilles did a performance of ‘King of Anything’ for BaebleMusic.com. The song is off the Eureka, California singer songwriter’s upcoming album ‘Kaleidoscope Heart’, out September 7th on Epic Records. Watch it below.

Sara Bareilles performed a cover of Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ for Billboard’s Mashup Monday’s. “I happen to love that song very much but also one of my favorite things to do if I’m going to do a cover of a song is I want to completely reinterpret it,” Sara explained. “It would be hard to imagine it as a doo-wopy voice and piano kind of song, so I started fooling around with that on the piano and it ended up being something super fun and it’s really fun to sing.” Watch the performance and commentary via YouTube below.

Sara Bareilles is out with the music video to her new single ‘King Of Anything’, the first release off the Los Angeles based singer songwriter’s second studio album ‘Kaleidoscope Heart’, out September 7th via Epic Records. The video was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and features the 30-year-old singing in a restaurant, on a bus, in a music store and in a garden, accompanied by a brass band. Watch it via Vevo below.

The third episode of Sara Bareilles for the making of her new album ‘Kaleidoscope Heart’ has been posted online, featuring the singer songwriter at the Village Recorder Studios in Los Angeles working on the song ‘Gonna Get Over You’. Sara said of the track at her MySpace blog:

I wrote the chorus to this song years ago and always loved singing it, but never really felt like I had the write song to put around it. After such a rocky start, this song was the FIRST completed song that I knew would go on my second record. So… it’s kinda like the grandaddy of the rest of Kaleidoscope Heart, if you will. Or if you won’t, that’s okay too. I ain’t mad at ya. It took us two complete stabs at this little diddy to get it right, but I feel like we finally captured the essence of the song which was meant to be sort of vintage 50′s doo wop feel with a modern twist.
Think Roy Orbison in a Hummer.
But different.
xo
sara

Watch it below.

The second webisode in the making of Sara Bareilles’ new album ‘Kaleidoscope Heart’ has been posted online. Sara introduces her band in the clip before they worked on the song ‘Uncharted’. The singer songwriter told her MySpace friends about the track:

This song saved me in a way. This was the one that finally helped me break through my writer’s block. At the suggestion of my friend, Eric Rosse (who produced Little Voice) I turned all my pain and worry and fear into something that made sense. And this song came out, and the flood gates opened for the rest of the record.

On a side note, this is also my dad’s favorite song on the record. He’s already decided that he wants me to play this on a really big stage and have a whole orchestra on stage while I walk around the audience and point at things emphatically. I told him I’d work on that. Hope you like it.

Watch the video via YouTube below.

The first webisode in the making of Sara Bareilles’ new album ‘Kaleidoscope Heart’ has been posted online, featuring the singer songwriter at the Village Recorder Studios in Los Angeles. “It’s been a long process getting back into the studio and I’ve been really skittish to do it, but I got here this morning for the first time, and I feel like we’re gonna kick some ass,” Sara says in the video.