You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Rachel Platten is a singer and songwriter who's released four albums,
including her 2016 album Wildfighter, which went gold.
In this episode, Rachel breaks down her song Broken Glass, which came out in August 2017.
My name is Rachel Platten, and I'm going to be talking about Broken Glass today.
But the story of Broken Glass really begins a couple years earlier with another track by Rachel Platten called Fight Song.
Fight Song broke the top ten on Billboard's charts,
but it was also used prominently by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
After that, everything changed for Rachel.
Honestly, I'm a little afraid of talking about it just because, I mean,
I'll tell you some of the story that I haven't really told anyone.
First, here's Mike Taylor from Hillary Clinton's campaign team.
My name is Mike Taylor,
and I was the director of special projects for the digital team on Hillary for America.
Around the time that we were selecting music for the campaign launch,
we had kind of pulled together everyone from the campaign to put in suggestions.
And we looked for songs that matched Hillary's message.
And Fight Song made that list.