Stronger Than You

"Stronger Than You" is a song featured in "Jailbreak" and is written by Rebecca Sugar and sung by Estelle. Garnet sings it when she fights against Jasper, after Steven helps her get back together.

This song is available on Aivi & Surasshu's SoundCloud stream. The demo for the song is available on Jeff Liu's SoundCloud stream.

Lyrics
Jasper: Oh great, you're both out, and you're fused again? Why? Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger. Quit embarrassing yourselves! I've seen what you really are.

Garnet: *laughs* No, you haven't!

(Steven, Amethyst, and Pearl head into the control room, and tie up Peridot with Amethyst's whip)

Peridot: *tied up* Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing!

Amethyst: You got this, Pearl!

Pearl: Okay, ship. Turn us around! *phases out as she touches the control pad*

Steven looks at Garnet fighting Jasper on a monitor and the scene changes back to it. After an attack from Jasper, both land near the ship's power core. (Peridot escapes, while the Crystal Gems are stranded on the falling ship, along with Lapis and Jasper.)

Steven, Amethyst, and Pearl: Garnet!

Garnet: This ship is going down!

Steven: What about Lapis?

Garnet: There's no time!

''As the ship falls on the side of the Crystal Temple and explodes, Steven protects the Crystal Gems by using his bubble. Garnet awards him by saying "Nice one.", concluding the song.''

A Word From Surasshu
"This definitely qualifies as a career highlight for me! The song was composed by Rebecca Sugar, and an initial demo arrangement was made by Jeff Liu, which Estelle sang over. Estelle is one of my favorite modern R&B singers, so this was a daunting and yet enticing proposition to arrange.

''Taking Jeff’s arrangement as a guideline, we really wanted to emphasize the euphoria of Garnet being reformed. Rebecca told us to capture the feeling of “there’s no way she could lose”. I also felt that the new Garnet design warranted a new Garnet bass sound (for those of you keeping score: where Pearl is piano, Garnet is represented by synthbass), so this was a great opportunity to showcase it. I also felt like the bridge needed a synth solo, so I went all out on this one!''

''Aivi did a fantastic job adding to this arrangement by making the string sections magical (especially at the end when the song turns dramatic) which were then beautifully performed by Jeff Ball. Everybody did such a great job with this song, and I’m extremely proud of the final result.''

''Thank you all for watching the season finale! Tune in tomorrow for Full Disclosure!''"

Demo Reel
"Here's the demo I arranged for Stronger Than You! Rebecca wrote and recorded the vocal and omnichord tracks, and I put everything else together in Logic. We used this track to figure out the timing for the action sequence and for Estelle to sing to. Aivi and Surasshu then made it a billion times more awesome for the final version!" -Jeff Liu

"The Stronger Than You DEMO! By me & Jeff Liu! Jeff was trying to figure out this rhythm that I couldn't quite pin down, you can hear me tapping it out on the table in the background of this track!" - Rebecca Sugar

Track Information

 * Arranged by: Aivi & Surasshu
 * Demo arrangement by: Jeff Liu
 * Music & Lyrics by: Rebecca Sugar
 * Strings performed by: Jeff Ball
 * Sung by: Estelle

Trivia

 * This is the last song of season 1.
 * This is the first song of the series in which Garnet sings solo.
 * The song's romantic theme refers to Sapphire and Ruby's relationship.
 * At 2 minutes and 55 seconds, this is the longest song in the series.
 * The tune of the chorus is the same melody that Sapphire sang while in her prison cell.
 * This is most likely the song for Garnet that Estelle confirmed at Comic-Con 2014.
 * Most of the sounds of conflict (landing hits, hitting the ground/wall) are in sync with the song's tempo.
 * This is the third song of the series related to a fusion. The first and second are Giant Woman and Strong in the Real Way, respectively.
 * In this case, the fusion herself is singing the song (Garnet).
 * This is the second time a fusion sings a song in the series (counting Opal singing a line from Steven's Giant Woman song, not counting the theme song where Garnet has multiple lines).
 * Throughout the song, Garnet's visor changes in dominant color depending on whose (Ruby and Sapphire) behavior she's representing.
 * This is the fifth song that is not set in Beach City.
 * This is the first song that is not set on Earth.
 * The chord progression of the intro of this song is the same as the Grover Washington, Jr. song "Just the Two of Us".
 * Estelle found the meaning of this song to be similar to "Gold" by Spandau Ballet and the theme from "Fame".
 * The way Garnet summons her weapon is reminiscent of a type of Warmup Exercise called "Bollywood Style", where the dancer drags their hands from their knees and passes through their hair.