Yeah, the dude that founded my town, I learned this recently, he was a real estate guy. I actually made a record about it called The Suburbs. The Woodlands is like a weird suburban, I feel like it was one of the first planned communities in the ’70s. I mean it’s, oil industry and then… it’s like many cities in one.
Just like the heat and humidity hit me, and I kind of looked at my mom and I was like, “What the fuck? What is this? Why are we here? What is this?” It’s one of my really early memories, getting off the plane in Houston from northern California and the door of the plane opened and just the hot air. Yeah, all of Houston, it’s so spread out, I think it’s about the same population of Chicago but it’s maybe twice the area. What was your childhood like in Houston? Because it actually isn’t specifically Houston, it’s a suburb quite outside of Houston, right, the Woodlands? So I’ve been here, for maybe 15, 15 years now? Yeah, I guess I kind of self-identify as an American Montréaler. Well, I was born in northern California, I grew up in Houston, I moved to Montréal when I was 19 or 20. I think a lot of people kind of identify you with Montréal, but I guess, do you identify, now, with being a Montréaler? You’ve been here for how many years? I have a little ticket, if anyone has any trouble, you just give them a little pass and you’re good.
It’s not my city, but you guys are more than welcome to be here. You guys are kind of taking over my city for a little bit. And the fact that it did is crazy.Please welcome one of the brains behind one of the biggest bands in the world, Arcade Fire: Win Butler. And maybe there was this tiny place in my heart that I believed this could still happen. And I wrote it 'cause I needed that reminder and I needed hope. "I didn't intend to write, you know, for the world to hear to be honest. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left," Platten said. "When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. Platten said she spent nearly a decade trying to make a successful music career for herself, carrying her own keyboard and playing cover gigs and performances from 1 a.m. So the fact that it's reached anyone other than me is really incredible." "I wrote the song when I was going through such a hard time and I needed to remember to believe in myself. "Ten months ago I was on a house concert tour in a van playing to like twenty or thirty people a night," Platten said in an interview for the ABC News special "The Year: 2015" hosted by ABC News' Robin Roberts. — - Rachel Platten's hit "Fight Song" might be one of the biggest inspirational anthems of 2015, but the singer says she didn’t mean for anyone else to hear it at first - and she wasn’t sure if anybody ever would.
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