Sarah McLachlan Is Done Writing Breakup Songs — elle.com

“I was writing breakup songs,” Sarah McLachlan says by way of explaining why she’s been pretty quiet for four years. “I’m like, I don’t want to keep writing the same songs. I’m done with that. I want to do something different.” That something different is her new record, Shine On (Verve). When last we heard from McLachlan, a three-time Grammy winner who has sold more than 40 million copies of her seven previous albums—including Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993) and Surfacing (1997)—she was navigating a notably blue period, surveying on 2010’s well-received Laws of Illusion the midlife wreckage of her marriage and her dreams of a peaceful, harmonious life. As Shine On makes clear, she’s moved on.

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