10 Things You Need To Know About Sia
With her much anticipated sixth album due for release in July, here’s everything you need to know about the pop phenomenon that is Sia.
Sia is the shy singer songwriter with the massive voice who first stole our hearts ten years ago with her utterly breathtaking song, ‘Breathe Me’, but recently had a smash hit with ‘Chandelier’ as well as ‘Battle Cry’ with MTV Brand New artist Angel Haze. Sia’s five albums to date have all achieved massive critical acclaim but it’s the massive pop songs she’s been writing over the last few years that have really set the charts on fire.
With her much anticipated sixth album due for release in July, here’s everything you need to know about the pop phenomenon that is Sia.
She doesn’t want to be famous
Sia hates the idea of fame so much that she wrote an anti-fame manifesto for Billboard last year, comparing being famous to having a mother-in-law critiquing your every move for an hour straight once a day, every day, for-ever. Scary!
Beyoncé thinks she’s a genius
Queen Bey had this to say about her album track ‘Pretty Hurts’, which Sia wrote; "Sia is such a genius. The second I heard the song I'm like, I have to sing this song. I don't care how hard I have to fight for the song, this is my song!"
She wrote Rihanna’s ‘Diamonds’ in only 14 minutes
We are so impressed that Sia bashed out the lyrics to Rihanna’s smash hit ‘Diamonds’ in just 14 minutes, that we can totes let it slide that she made it a little easier on herself by repeating the line “Shine Bright Like A Diamond” 24 times.
Sia once leant Katie Price some fake tan
At a charity football match years ago, Sia was applying some fake tan (as you do) when none other than our British Ambassador for fake tanning, Katie Price, asked if she could ‘ave some of that?’ Being the hero that she is, Sia obliged. True. Story.
Sia once dated JD Samson of electro-punk band Le Tigre
In 2008, after spotting Samson’s photo on MySpace, Sia admitted to stalking the Le Tigre babe until she said yes to being her gf. Which we think is more adorable than crazy. But only cos they made such a hot couple!
She Starred As Herself on a 1997 Episode of ‘Home and Away’
We’re not sure why you need to know this, but we definitely feel like our lives have been enriched since hearing this canny piece of Sia trivia.
She asked 11-year-old ‘Dance Moms’ reality star Maddie Ziegler if she wanted to be in her ‘Chandelier’ music video over Twitter
Which is an encouraging bit of news for any of us who own a Twitter account and aspire to become a music video star one day! Now we just need to find ourselves a reality show to star in.
There is a song on Sia’s new album called Cellophane
Sia loves turning everyday items (like chandeliers - we own loads!) into big pop songs, which is why we have high hopes for her re-branding something we use to keep our lunchtime sarnies fresh. Maybe she’ll even wrap on this one? (sorry)
Her songs have sold more than 25 million copies
Sia has written songs for pop’s biggest names, with Britney, Katy, Bey, RiRi, Kylie, Christina Aguilera, and Rita Ora all shifting millions in downloads after tapping this blonde-bobbed babe for her chart-winning way with words.
Her new album ‘1000 Forms of Fear’ is out on 8th July.
Sia may not want to become more famous than she already is, but with her sixth studio album ‘1000 Forms of Fear’ shaping up to be a strong contender for pop album of the year, someone might want to stock up on more brown bags to go over her head!
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh-oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh-oh
It seems like yesterday that I was nothing
Then all of a sudden I'm a volcanic eruption
Then all of a sudden it's like spontaneous combustion
And I'm all up in your face, yelling
"Bitch, you can't tell me nothing"
Cos I came from the bottom
Now everybody's watching
I said it was my time
Now I'm who everybody's glocking
And I'm just out here sprinting
I'm running right through my vision
I'm trying to outrun my past
But still trying to defeat my limits
Cos you only get one moment
In this life to be great
And you give it your all, despite what it takes
And you never let 'em kill you
You take take everything they give you
And throw it right fucking at 'em
And tell 'em it doesn't build you
And no it don't ever break you
And no it can't overtake you
Life's like a bed of roses
You take the thorns and you make do
Sometimes you have to hurt
For the cause to be reached
But one day you'll be stronger
Than all that you beat, and you can say
Money can not buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh-oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh-oh
I woke up one Sunday morning, stopped believing in Jesus
Stopped believing in churches, I stopped believing in preachers
I realized I was a teacher, not just one of the heathens
I'm going to destroy the fallacies, start creating believers
Start creating the leaders, tell them who should they follow
Nobody but themselves, especially if they hollow
Especially when they empty, and death reserved for fulfillment
You the only person alive that holds the key to your healing
So you take it and you run with it
And keep going even when your sun's hidden
Because the time we spent in darkness when the rain come
Is where we often find the light soon as the pain's done
There ain't no material things in the world
That can change the fact you feel alone
Despite the fact that it gets hard, you take it all and you still go
Take the sun and you still grow, lose your light and you still glow
I been there, I'm still here, and I know how you feel, so
Money can not buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh-oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh-oh
We don't wanna fight
So sing with me our battle cry
Sing with me our battle cry
Oh-oh
Money cannot buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh-oh
It's hard to explain my way of living to people who never lived it
A minute in my position filled with my opposition
To anybody not different fighting to stay the same
I got lives in my hands and I'm fighting to make 'em change
Couldn't accept responsibility, find somebody to blame
The emotions that I'm harboring about to drive me insane
Tried to say "Fuck everything," but I ain't have the heart to
Rarely had the heart to do a lot of things I ought to
So now I spit it for people who say their cords missing
Inspire life into anybody that's forfeiting
'Cause it's easy to keep pretending that there's nothing wrong
But it's harder to keep their head up and be fucking strong
So, now they telling me "Go, Haze, they can't stop you
Heavyweight flow, if they can't lift you then they can't drop you
The pinnacle, if they can't reach you, then they can't top you
Man, they can't do anything, that you're about to"
Money can not buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
Oh-oh
It's just you and I
So lift your hands toward the sky
Lift your hands toward the sky
Oh-oh
We don't wanna fight
So sing with me our battle cry
Sing with me our battle cry
Money can not buy
All the love that's here tonight
All the love that's here tonight
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