One moment Michelle Branch was"Everywhere"and the next she was gone.
All this before she was even legally old enough to drink.
If you’re wondering what happened to Branch, you’re not alone.
ShetoldElleshe gets that question a lot.
So let’s answer that question with a look at why you don’t hear from Branch anymore.
It’s just that Warner Bros. stopped releasing it.
Branch refused to play the game and kept recording music that was true to herself.
But while she remained the same, the label presidents were constantly in flux.
We shot artwork and a video for it.
There was a single; a release date.
And then everyone got fired, and it all just stopped.
It was that… over and over and over."
She was joking or was she?
“Now do you remember?
It was so terrible,” Branch toldRolling Stone.
“It was really emotional.
I don’t know how it got to that point.”
Whatever their issues were, they must have been serious.
Branch toldRolling Stoneshe and Harp went ten years without talking after parting ways.
Since her daughter was four weeks old, Branchhas been bringinglittle Owen on tour with her.
That was kind of my meditation that kept me sane.
Because at the end of the day, she’s the most important thing.
She saved me."
“She likes everything from The Strokes to Pollock.”
But as for pop music?
Her bakery didn’t pan out
Branch has two passions: music (obviously) and food.
And when things cooled down with the former, Branch turned to the latter for work.
But don’t think Branch doesn’t know her way around the kitchen.
Her skills were on display when she prepared lamb satay with peanut sauce on a tour bus forBon Appetit.
And she has made no secret of her dreams to open a bakery.
But the series, like the bakery, never happened.
Branch hasn’t give up on her bakery dream though.
“I’d love to open a restaurant or bakery,” Branch wrote during herRedditAMA in 2017.
“My ‘bak-up plan’ was to go to pastry school and be a pastry chef.
That’s still a big passion of mine.”
Divorces don’t always have to be messy
How’s this for timing?
“And when it cleared, nothing was in its right place.”
“Having our daughter together was really the balancing factor when everything was kind of coming to a close.
Carney encouraged Branch to stick to her guns, offering to fund the album himself if need be.
Finally, in 2017, Branch releasedHopeless Romantic, her first solo album in 14 years.
As you’ve got the option to imagine, Branch had plenty to say on the album.
She toldToo Fabher divorce inspired some lyrics, as did her new boyfriend.
She met her future husband while recording the album.
Baby No.
And yes, that means she recorded songs about her ex-husband with help from her new boyfriend.
“It’s like, why couldn’t we have just met each other in our 20s?
We would have saved so much heartache!”
“It’s likeModern Family,” Branch toldPeople.
“Patrick and I couldn’t be more excited!”
Remember Three 6 Mafia?
Fast forward to the present and now the roles have been reversed.
Goes to show you how much the music business can change over time.
What’s next for Branch?
and areconstantly working on new songs in their home studio.
What they’ll do with all those recordings remains to be seen.
