◇ image via WikipediaRachel Platten
Rachel Platten is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Sly and the Family Stone, NSYNC and John Lennon. Those roots explain a lot about how Rachel Platten arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Meghan Trainor, Kelly Clarkson, Julia Michaels, Daya and Alex & Sierra, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Piano Guys, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Rachel Platten, reaching back through Cyndi Lauper and forward to The Piano Guys. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Rachel Ashley Platten is an American singer-songwriter and author. After releasing two albums independently in 2003 and 2011, she signed with Columbia Records in 2015. Platten is best known for her Diamond certified single "Fight Song", which peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100, topped charts in the UK, and peaked within the top ten of multiple charts worldwide. Platten won a Daytime Emmy Award for a live performance of the song on Good Morning America. Her major-label debut studio album, Wildfire (2016), was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and featured the follow-up singles "Stand by You" and "Better Place". Her second major-label album, Waves (2017), came out a year later.
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Rachel Platten connections
Rachel Platten grew out of Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Sly and the Family Stone and NSYNC, shares an orbit with Meghan Trainor, Kelly Clarkson, Julia Michaels and Daya, went on to shape The Piano Guys. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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