‘Fight Song’ singer: New single about ’16

The singer behind Hillary Clinton campaign favorite “Fight Song” says she received “death threats” over its 2016 use, and the backlash kept her from talking about the real political inspiration for her latest single.

“I wasn’t an artist that wanted to be associated with only one side of this political spectrum. And I knew just how emotionally complicated that election was. So I was scared,” Rachel Platten says about her reaction when Clinton’s Democratic campaign reached out about using “Fight Song” at events.

“It wasn’t a political song. It was a song that I wrote in my bedroom because I needed a reminder to not give up on myself,” Platten said in an interview on Radiotopia’s “Song Exploder” podcast, to be released Wednesday.

{mosads}While Platten said it was “incredible” seeing Clinton walk out to the empowerment anthem at last year’s Democratic National Convention, following the event, she got “so much hate.”

“I got death threats over the summer,” the 36-year-old singer says. “My Twitter feed was just filled with people telling me that they hated me. How dare I take ‘Fight Song’ away from them — that it was their song, and it healed them, and now they couldn’t listen to it anymore.”

Platten says her latest song, “Broken Glass,” was inspired by U.S. politics and that experience.

“That was me imagining Hillary and me imagining how she might feel,” she says of certain lines in the song. “How she was just taking attacks from every single angle, and how hard that must be. Everyone was looking at her as a public figure but not as a human being, just someone to attack and blame.”

“I was scared to release it,” Platten says of the tune, which came out in August.

“But I haven’t gotten any backlash because I haven’t talked about it politically. I have definitely avoided and skirted it,” she says. “I’ve done interviews but I’ve really kind of avoided any questions about the election. But it hasn’t been fun because it also doesn’t feel good not to say what you really think about something.”

“Broken Glass,” she says she realized, “is a song about this election.”

It’s about “breaking the glass ceiling. And this is a song about women. And this is a song about us doing something that we thought was impossible.”