Title: Heart Drop
Artist: Sara Daniels
Genre: pop rock, pop punk, dance-pop
Length: 42:36
Recorded: August 2012 - August 2014
Label: Titanic Records
Writers: Sara Daniels, Vara Gallo, Reza Vranitzky, Mark Petry
Producers: Reza Vranitzky, Damion Holmes, Dr. Duke, The Wolverines

Personnel:
Sara Daniels - vocals, guitar, piano
Kathleen Roberts - guitar, piano, keyboards, bass
Mary Russell - drums, guitar, bass, piano
Kent Lindley - guitar, bass, keyboards
Rochelle Kress - synthesizers, keyboard, guitar
Joyce Lewis - strings, violins
Kevin O'Leary - drums
Amanda Singletary - drums
Jeremy Parker - drums
Robert Graham - drums

Tracklist:
1. Bad News, Baby
(written by: Sara Daniels)
2. Feels Right
(written by: Sara Daniels)
3. Good Enough (feat. Vara Gallo)
(written by: Sara Daniels, Vara Gallo)
4. Obsession
(written by: Sara Daniels)
5. Where the Lights Shine
(written by: Sara Daniels, Reza Vranitzky)
6. Bitched & Cried
(written by: Sara Daniels)
7. Taken
(written by: Sara Daniels, Vara Gallo)
8. Can't Fight
(written by: Sara Daniels, Mark Petry)
9. Blah Blah Blah
(written by: Sara Daniels, Reza Vranitzky, Vara Gallo)
10. Heart Drop
(written by: Sara Daniels, Vara Gallo)
11. Smile For You
(written by: Sara Daniels, Vara Gallo)
12. Hate You (feat. Maddie Urie)
(written by: Sara Daniels, Reza Vranitzky)

TITLE: Feels Right
ARTIST: Sara Daniels
WRITERS: Sara Daniels
LENGTH: 4:27
GENRE: Rock, pop rock, heavy rock
PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky

---

Sara is quick to jump from a pretty well upbeat song to one much slower as the album transitions from "Bad News, Baby" to "Feels Right." The tone of the entire album already seems to do a quick change as well, while going from the relationship in "Bad News, Baby," which was a painful one that they wanted to leave but couldn't, to the relationship described in "Feels Right," which is one so great that Sara never wants to be away from it. But with an analysis of the song, it could be argued that both of the relationships in the songs are equally as bad - or even that the relationship in "Feels Right" is worse than the relationship in "Bad News, Baby." Sara Daniels chose, when writing the song, to make sure that none of the relationships that she wrote about seemed too perfect. "I know that some of my fans are younger girls and women who are still looking for love," Sara explains. "If I wrote a song about how perfect my relationship is, and how nothing is ever wrong, then they would get the idea that that's how relationships are, and would never be satisfied with their love life. We all know that no relationship is a perfect relationship, and so pretending that one is is probably the worst thing I could do to my fans."

There are many ways to look and analyze any song, but there are two popular conclusions that most people come to when listening to "Feels Right." The first popular conclusion is that the song is simply about a great relationship where Sara has become very attached to her partner. She describes her partner and the way that she feels around her partner much like the way an artist would describe a drug, and the way that that drug makes her feel. She uses terms in the first verse like "losing my grip" and "numbing the senses" to describe how she feels when she's thinking about him. Together, she says that they fight all the hurts that they've been dealt in the past, and become each other's prey - like they're opening themselves up to each other so much that the other one has every opportunity to hurt them, but instead doesn't take it. In a quiet voice, Sara sings, "I'll always be where you are / If you take me where you are," telling her partner that if they want her, then they have her. The chorus comes in with Sara professing her love once again, telling her partner that when they're around, laying in bed with them, well, "everything feels right." Sara reveals a little more information about their relationship in the next verse, admitting that they're a secret couple - although it may just be the fact that they're sleeping together in a secret. Sara makes her partner promise her every morning that their relationship wasn't doomed from the start, making many listeners think that perhaps there's something else effecting the quality of their relationship - like, perhaps, that her partner has somebody else and that Sara is knowingly the other woman. The relationship in the song comes into full view in the bridge, when Sara tells her partner that everything about them feels right, but only when they're together and she doesn't have to think about anything else in the world. She tells them that the good feelings that they give her end so quickly ("Everything feels right / But it ends so easily") and that she knows that she can't keep her partner with her forever, but something won't let her let them go. Before the song rockets into the last chorus, Sara sings in a soft voice, "I need you with me / I need you with me each day." It's a very dependent relationship that Sara is describing, which leads many people to say that Sara would be better off with the relationship in "Bad News, Baby," which - although seemed abusive - still gave Sara a sense of independence from her partner (or at least enough independence to have the confidence to piss off her partner without fear of retaliation through leaving her).

The other popular way to read this song is to read the possible metaphors simply as the way that they're supposed to read: About drugs. Many people have thought that the song is simply about drug addiction, and the emotions and dependency you feel on your particular drug of choice when you experience it. In looking at the song through those eyes, many lyrics seem to read in a completely different way. Rather than it being the happiness of thinking about her partner being what numbs Sara's senses and makes her lose her grip through the day, it's actually the drugs. She fights her past hurts with the drugs, using them to help herself forget. She becomes her drug's prey, willing letting it damage her body and mind. For the times that she is high, everything feels right. She isn't in pain anymore. The drug assumes the role of the boyfriend for the woman in the song, making the women feel safe for the night. Lyrics about them being a secret tend to make more sense in this analysis of the song as well, as a drug addict would usually try to keep their addiction as much of a secret as possible. The lyric in the bridge, "I know I can't keep you / But I can't let you go" also makes more sense, with the woman in the song confessing that she knows that what she's doing is bad for herself and her body, but because of the addiction, she just can't stop. Both ways to read the song are completely acceptable, and it all depends on the person who is listening to the song to judge what the song is about to them.

---

Feeling you in me
Losing my grip through the day
Numbing my senses
The night starts slipping away

Fighting our past hurt
We become each other's prey
Sharing dark kisses
Hoping that you're with me to stay

I'll always be where you are
If you take me where you are

When you're around, everything feels right
With you by my side, holding me at night
This feeling is one I won't fight
I'll lay in your arms
Until the daylight...
Until the daylight...
Everything feels right
(When you're around, when you're around)
Everything feels right

I'm your night secret
You'll always be in my heart
But daily, I'll wake up
I'll make you promise
That we were not lost from the start

I'll always be where you are
If you take me where you are

When you're around, everything feels right
With you by my side, holding me at night
This feeling is one I won't fight
I'll lay in your arms
Until the daylight...
Until the daylight...
Everything feels right
(When you're around, when you're around)

Everything feels right
But only when you're in reach
Everything feels right
But it ends so easily
I know I can't keep you
But I can't let go

I need you with me...
I need you with me each day...

When you're around, everything feels right
With you by my side, holding me at night
This feeling is one I won't fight
I'll lay in your arms
Until the daylight...
Until the daylight...
Everything feels right
(Everything feels right)
Everything feels right

(When you're around, when you're around)
Everything feels right
(Everything feels right)
But only when you're in reach
(When you're around, when you're around)
But it ends so easily

SOUNDS LIKE:
Digital Daggers - Still Here

TITLE: Obsession
ARTIST: Sara Daniels
WRITERS: Sara Daniels
LENGTH: 3:25
GENRE: Electropop, dance-pop, pop rock
PRODUCER: Damion Holmes, Dr Duke


(OOC: Written by Famouss7x7)

Does anyone even remember Sara Daniels? Lost in your memory? Was she forgotten along with a handful of other pop singers who have sunken into obscurity? Or does this name ring a bell? Sara Daniels first rose to fame once she heard about an opportunity to appear on All Around The World, she quickly signed up. In all the judges eye's she had potential to be a huge star and went on to become a finalist in the top 3 against Miles In Minutes and eventual winner, Book of Love. Losing the competition didn't hold Sara back as she began introducing herself in the music business. She released her debut single Suffocate In November of 2010. The single was became quite the sleeper hit reaching, #7 on the charts but Sara was released from her label months before her album release for unknown reasons. She appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and made it to the 6th place before getting eliminated. On the show, she confirmed she is working on new music to be released "soon". Soon after Sara was signed to Angel Music Records to complete her album with full support and backing, but once again, Daniels hit a wall in her career as Angel Music Records closed down following the death of R&B superstar, Cherise. Every artist on the label, including Sara, was left to fend for themselves. Although trailing behind such artists who have already moved on, Sara finally debuts new music in 2012 after making ways to host/producer/songwriter and talent scout, Damion Holmes who is known for his work for his independent distribution label, "The Underground". Can Sara finally find her place? She surely is taking a shot with the unpredictable song the versatile producer Damion Holmes and Dr Duke team up for the production of "Obsession".


The track starts off with soft twinkling synths that soon is aided with a throbbing beat mixed with zips of electro that kick in seconds into the song. Soon as that beat kicks in Sara wastes no time bringing her unapologetic vocals to the track as the dance pop beat slams through the baseline. Sara blares out If she broke your heart, heart, heart
If she tore you apart. She waits a mere millisecond before continuing on singing| I'll make you feel new again getting across that this female catalyst will make a man feel "new again" after a girl broke her heart. Things turn more sinister as she continues on murmuring: This addiction, this friction| Is burning me alive| So illegal, so much evil just soars through my eyes| I don't care if you don't want it| So care for your will| This is no secret| Don't care if its wrong! As things turn from sweet to dark especially after Sara belts out "wrong". The song breaks down into a stellar post chorus breakdown adorned with massive synths that escalate through the hook, with occasional rave beats tapping across the breakdown. For the breakdown, Sara belts out I am your leader| You'll love, and you'll keep her
Say when we're together| You'll love me forever| You're my possession| You're my obsession| Don't tell me never
Please don't tell me never!; Making it clear that this female is indeed obsessed with the male in the song as she becomes a dominant force in this "relationship" calling herself his leader. After that part is finished and Sara yells out never, the song breaks into a surprising dance pop/dubstep influenced breakdown with a robotic like voice murmuring: This obsession will go over the top| I'll slit your f*cking throat open (uh)| Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)|Slit your f*cking throat open (uh). Although the dubstep breaks become quite overused now, this one works shockingly well with the menacing synths and rave beats of the track. But other than it being a dubstep like breakdown in the track, what may take you by surprise is the robotic voice saying the obsession will go over the top and the man would get his throat slit. Any man might feel quite uncomfortable but to fit with the manner of the obsessive/psychotic female controlling this mans every move, the breakdowns lyrics, after being understood.. is quite ace as it's obvious that the boundaries of squeaky clean lyrics are being crossed here, what's wrong with that?

As the breakdown slips out, the song returns back to it's beginning beats, and Sara returns back to her semi insane lyrics taking no breaks in saying the next lines of the song: I'm happy you seen from the start
There's no keeping us apart| Everywhere you turn I'm trapped to your arm| I'm making it visible, that this is no game
The thought of you just goes and goes through my veins| There's no escape, there's no running away| And certainly no one to come save your day; As it seems this female is becoming increasingly scary as Sara continues singing fast paced through the next lyrics Oh isn't this exciting, am I breaking you down ?| I'll let you make you a comeback| And I'll be tearing you down| All these evil thoughts I keep whispering in my sleep| Has you convinced that I'm officially off the deep| Now your trying to leave me too seep| But you forgot that very important speech! Making it very obviously that the female is completely out of her mind as she talks in her sleep and lets it be known that the man is not going any where. Following those lyrics the song goes back into it's synth/dancepop mash that sits comfortably at the post chorus break down where Sara starts off with I am your leader as she refers to the hook as the "speech" she spoke of on the previous verse. After Sara sings the chorus break down the song breaks into the breakdown once more with the robotic voice saying the very threatening lines of obsession going completely over the top and possibly reverting to murder. The breakdown this time goes alittle longer than usual, as it becomes the bridge as well as Sara sings as if she's psychotic Always stay close to me| Don't think you'll leave now| I won't promise I'm okay; as the beats in the breakdown following her voice perfectly, she then whispers; |This is no secret, no secret| telling the guy blantanly that she's quite frankly, out of her mind... as the song then breaks into the pre-chorus and finally the breakdown mixed with the "slit your throat" recite that rides this very weird, but catchy song until its end!

Don't let the pretty face of Sara Daniel's fool you in the artwork, because she will slit your throat in this track of hers where she comes back with an obsessive manner turned dark and sinister. Do you think Sara will have a chance as stardom again?





If she broke your heart, heart, heart
If she tore you apart
I'll make you feel new again

This addiction, this friction
Is burning me alive
So illegal, so much evil just soars through my eyes
I don't care if you don't want it
So care for your will
This is no secret
Don't care if its wrong!

I am your leader
You'll love, and you'll keep her
Say when we're together
You'll love me forever
You're my possession
You're my obsession
Don't tell me never
Please don't tell me never!

Or
This obsession will go over the top
I'll slit your f*cking throat open (uh)
Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)
Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)

I'm happy you seen from the start
There's no keeping us apart
Everywhere you turn I'm trapped to your arm
I'm making it visible, that this is no game
The thought of you just goes and goes through my veins
There's no escape, there's no running away
And certainly no one to come save your day

Oh isn't this exciting, am I breaking you down ?
I'll let you make you a comeback
And I'll be tearing you down
All these evil thoughts I keep whispering in my sleep
Has you convinced that I'm officially off the deep
Now your trying to leave me too seep
But you forgot that very important speech!


I am your leader
You'll love, and you'll keep her
Say when we're together
You'll love me forever
You're my possession
You're my obsession
Don't tell me never
Please don't tell me never!

Or
This obsession will go over the top
I'll slit your f*cking throat open (uh)
Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)
Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)

Always stay close to me
Don't think you'll leave now
I won't promise I'm okay
This is no secret, no secret

I am your leader
You'll love, and you'll keep her
Say when we're together
You'll love me forever
You're my possession
You're my obsession
Don't tell me never
Please don't tell me never!

Or
This obsession will go over the top
I'll slit your fucking throat open (uh)
Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)
Slit your f*cking throat open (uh)

[Clean version - Slit your freaking throat open]

Sounds like

TITLE: Bitched & Cried
ARTIST: Sara Daniels
WRITERS: Sara Daniels
LENGTH: 3:20
GENRE: Pop rock, pop punk, power pop
PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky

---

The listeners have already been through a lot of emotions with Sara, but it seems like now is the point where we start to go back to the emotion that Sara enjoys expressing the most - anger. Or maybe not anger necessarily, but there are very few themes of love after "Where the Lights Shine." "Bitched & Cried" is the first song in this new, more angry part of Sara, although the topic of the song is similar to ones she's addressed before - being in love with a guy who doesn't love her the same way, and who is a general jerk.

Sara starts the song off with examples of how her boyfriend has been a jerk to her lately. The first one is that when she calls him to hang out, he says that he's busy - she later finds out that he was busy hanging out with his ex-girlfriend. The second example is that her boyfriend just seems to be like a completely different person than the man that she got was dating before. She knows that the relationship isn't a healthy one, but she's willing to keep trying with him, because of the person she remembers him being before. In between each verse, Sara softly sings, "C-c-c-crying, c-c-c-crying / c-c-c-crying here," and then after the second verse, she adds, "... all curled up and dying." The repetition of these lines is to show just how often this guy left her crying over him, and how many times she forgave him and let him back into her life. In the chorus, Sara brings it home, telling him that while she was upset over him leaving her again, she realizes that she was just wasting her time on him - especially on bitching and crying over him. She tells him that she knows that he doesn't love her like she loves him, because she would never do anything like that to him. It a defining moment in the character in the song's life to finally admit that this person that she's cried over so many times doesn't really love her as much as she thinks they do, and then she lets them go. In the next verse, Sara tells him that she never thought that he would hurt her the way he did, but she's realizing now that he never told her the truth and that he's, in Sara's words, "a rat." She finishes the verse, telling him that maybe she was hurt by him before, but now she's just fine. In the bridge, she tells him that she's not going to live with the shame she has of believing and trust him all this time, and that she's not going to let him break her heart ever again. Before launching back into the chorus, she tells him to lose her number so that she can finally breath again. She sings the chorus again, solidifying that she knows that this man doesn't love her the way that she loved him, and then the song ends in a strong girl-power-esque note.

---

The day that I called you
You said that you were busy
Busy with your ex-girl

(C-c-c-crying, c-c-c-crying
C-c-c-crying here)

And then like,
Like you're another person
You left me hanging
Hanging by my own rope

(I'm c-c-crying, all curled up and dying,
I'm c-c-crying here)

I bitched, I cried
I just wasted my time
The week you left me all alone

I bitched, I cried
Wouldn't look at other guys
The week you left me all alone

Oh, but you don't love me like I love you
I would never leave you like that
I bitched, I cried
I wasted my time
The week you left me all alone

(All alone)

Didn't think you would do that
Cut me down and then run away like a rat
But you never told the truth, and all you did is lie
And maybe I was hurt before, but now I am just fine

(I'm c-c-crying, all curled up an dying,
I'm c-c-crying here, c-c-c-crying here)

I bitched, I cried
I just wasted my time
The week you left me all alone

I bitched, I cried
Wouldn't look at other guys
The week you left me all alone

Oh, but you don't love me like I love you
I would never leave you like that
I bitched, I cried
I wasted my time
The week you left me all alone

I'm not going to live with this shame
And I won't let you break my heart again
I'm not going to live with this shame
Lose my number and let me finally breath again

I'm crying here

(I'm c-c-crying, all curled up and dying,
C-c-c-crying here)

I bitched, I cried
I just wasted my time
The week you left me all alone

I bitched, I cried
Wouldn't look at other guys
The week you left me all alone

Oh, but you don't love me like I love you
I would never leave you like that
I bitched, I cried
I wasted my time
The week you left me all alone

I bitched, I cried
Wouldn't look at other guys
The week you left me all
Week you left me all, all alone

SOUNDS LIKE:
Fefe Dobson - You Bitch

TITLE: Can't Fight
ARTIST: Sara Daniels
WRITERS: Sara Daniels, Mark Petry
LENGTH: 4:15
GENRE: Electropop, pop-rock
PRODUCER: The Wolverines

---

(OOC: Written by Famouss7x7)

Sara Daniels first rose to stardom when appearing on now defunct singing competition "All Around The World. The Wisconsin born songstress seemed to be destined for greatness as her star potential oozed each week that the competition went on. However, after reaching second place Sara lost the competition. Still, with so potential one can only guess that just a singing competition wasn't all for such a exceptional talent. Shortly after the competition ended, Sara signed a contract with Studio 60 records. Sara released a moderately successful debut single "Suffocate" in November of 2010 that went on to reach the top 10 on the airplay charts. Shortly after, for unknown reasons Sara left Studio60 and 2010 rolled away and so did 2011. Not much was heard musically from Daniels. She did appear on reality show "Big Brother" promising new music "on the way" but nothing ever really prospered. No label, no website, and there's was seemingly no Sara.

As the months went on and her fans begin to wonder what Sara was up to, we all finally got an answer. In early 2012, Sara finally announced that she had come to terms with a distribution contract with the Damion Holms owned distribution label "The Underground", a label specially made for up and coming stars to get their music out to the public. This was a far cry from her days on the big stage singing in front of millions on All Around The World and signing to mega recording company in Studio 60. Still, Sara once again promised her fans a new single that would come in the late summer of 2012 and that, we got. "Obsession" was released in late August of 2012 with many calling it Sara's last chance at stardom, and quite frankly reviving her career. The critically acclaimed single became a shocking sleeper hit topping the Digital Airplay charts and reaching the #2 position on Airplay to everyone's surprise and became the biggest song to be released from the independent label to date. The single seemed to open up many doors for Sara and her ailing career which seemed to start to flourish. Months after the success of the single Sara signed a recording contract with Titanic Records and announced work on her debut album. Daniels joined James Urie on a track entitled "Trying My Best Not To Forget" that went on to become a critically acclaimed single and went on to tour with Riot! In The Boulevard for the remainder of 2012 and the beginning months of 2013. Her set was enjoyed by many Riot! fans as she sang new music from her album and older songs from her All Around The World days. Remaining quiet and for those months to stick solely to touring effectively, she did announce in a blog that a new single that would differ from her debut single:



Five months later we get a new single from Sara Daniels. Now that she is completely finished touring with Riot! In The Boulevard and having started a summer tour with pop star Jennifer Armstrong that began days ago, Daniel's fans get a taste of "Can't Fight", the second single taken from her long awaited debut album "Seventh Heaven". The record, which was produced by production duo "The Wolverines" takes a different approach from her debut record but still maintaining it's very proclaiming sound that will keep you interested throughout the entire track. The record which has a heavy influence on electropop and pop rock music has you pulled in from the gate with the songs majestic and menacing string stabs and a driving synth-rock pulse beneath its massively quick backing beat and quick and effective vocals by Sara. The tempo of the record moves in out and out perfectly with the violin like instruments that start the track off followed by the backing beat and guitars.

Over the concoction of drums, guitars, synths, violins and a menacing backing beat Sara doesn't get lost in the whirlwind of instruments. Her presence is known throughout the entirety of the track whether she sings through the verses in a quick, aggressive like manner, or cooing out the chorus in majestic and emotional push. Unlike her previous releases, Sara plays the victim in the record. Showing that she does have feelings and emotions. Throughout the record Sara sings out for a guy who she has fallen n love with but he continues to keep her chasing after him and after a while she finally comes to the sad terms of her having to move on and begins self pitying herself of not being able to fight the pain. It sounds like a story that Sara is telling to her listeners who may also be dealing with a similar problem that remains relate-able and interesting to hear from a different point of view.

The massively catchy track goes on for four minutes and twenty seconds ending with a guitar solo by Daniels and violins riding the track to a haunting end.

It has become obvious that Sara continues push to keep herself sounding different from what is heard on the radio as "Can't Fight" hits radio and digital outlets on Sunday! Tell us what you think!


CAN'T FIGHT - SARA DANIELS

Let’s take a trip down memory lane
Let’s try and figure out what caused all this pain
It started when you first came into my life
And I was always picturing that you would be my guy
We might've teenagers at the time
Yet I still couldn’t get you off of my mind
There were times I thought that maybe we'd have a chance
Whenever I saw you I swear it put me into a trance
But then I found out that maybe I was just being a fool
I thought you were wonderful and at the time would do anything for you
But now I realized what you really did to me
And now it’s time that I move on from you cause…

I can’t fight the music, and I can’t fight the shame
I can’t fight the shadows, and handle all this blame.
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t take this pain
Cause everything is happening, happening to me
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t fight the shame
I can’t fight the shadows, and handle all this blame.
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t take this pain
Cause everything is happening, happening to me

There was this one night where I talked to you for hours
And I swear it made me feel like I had all these special powers
Thinking to myself like maybe this is my time
To sweep in and make you finally become mine
But it seemed like you were reading my mind
Every time I was getting closer you would go offline.
I remember the day that you finally told me you liked me
and I still remember cause it made me so happy
But it didn’t matter cause now everything’s changed
and now I just gotta move on cause…

I can’t fight the music, and I can’t fight the shame
I can’t fight the shadows, and handle all this blame.
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t take this pain
Cause everything is happening, happening to me
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t fight the shame
I can’t fight the shadows, and handle all this blame.
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t take this pain
Cause everything is happening, happening to me

And now I’m here singing this song
And still have you somewhere in the back of my mind
But I hope you hear this cause this is where this all comes to an end,
Because I’m just going so crazy and now I, I, I

(Repeat to fade)
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t fight the shame
I can’t fight the shadows, and handle all this blame.
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t take this pain
Cause everything is happening, happening to me
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t fight the shame
I can’t fight the shadows, and handle all this blame.
I can’t fight the music, and I can’t take this pain
Cause everything is happening, happening to me


Sounds Like