'Chandelier'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtTTRac7X7A
Kevin Simm performs 'Chandelier' - The Voice UK 2016: Blind Auditions 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4naMuYoSOHg
Sia - Chandelier (Acoustic Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAp62VLzpkk
Sia - Chandelier (acoustic cover by Maria Z)
Maria Z performs an acoustic guitar cover music video of Sia's new 2014 single "Chandelier".
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LYRICS
Party girls don't get hurt
Can't feel anything, when will I learn?
I push it down, push it down
I'm the one "for a good time call"
Phone's blowin' up, ringin' my doorbell
I feel the love, feel the love
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink
Throw 'em back 'til I lose count
I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist
Like it doesn't exist
I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry
I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
But I'm holding on for dear life, won't look down, won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light, 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight
Help me, I'm holding on for dear life, won't look down, won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light, 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight
On for tonight
Sun is up, I'm a mess
Gotta get out now, gotta run from this
Here comes the shame, here comes the shame
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, drink
Throw 'em back 'til I lose count
I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist
Like it doesn't exist
I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry
I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
But I'm holding on for dear life, won't look down, won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light, 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight
Help me, I'm holding on for dear life, won't look down, won't open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light, 'cause I'm just holding on for tonight
On for tonight
On for tonight
'Cause I'm just holding on for tonight
Oh, I'm just holding on for tonight
On for tonight
On for tonight
'Cause I'm just holding on for tonight
'Cause I'm just holding on for tonight
Oh, I'm just holding on for tonight
On for tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxOgd0FuTY
Lindsey Raye Ward - Sia - Chandelier (Drum Cover)
- This swooping serenade about a party girl's life was the first solo single by Sia in four years, following the release of her 2010 studio album We Are Born. (She did contribute "Elastic Heart" to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack in 2013 with Diplo and The Weeknd). Between the two releases, the Australian singer-songwriter "retired" and began co-writing hit songs for the likes of Rihanna ("Diamonds"), David Guetta ("Titanium") and Flo Rida "Wild Ones"). Speaking with Billboard magazine, Sia discussed her decision to remain out of the spotlight. "I don't care about commercial success," she said. "I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want."
- The song stemmed from an impromptu jam session between Sia and pop producer Jesse Shatkin. "I usually think, 'Oh this would work for Rihanna, or this would be a good one for B or Katy,'" Sia said to Ryan Seacrest. "But this time I was like, 'Uh oh I think I just wrote a full-blown pop song for myself by accident!'"
- Shatkin and Sia came up with the song whilst working with hit producer Greg Kurstin (Pink, Kesha, Kelly Clarkson). "At some point, Greg had to run out, and me and Sia were in his live room with his piano and drum set and just kind of jammed for a second," Shatkin recalled to MuuMuse. "Greg has a marimba, so I was playing marimba - some weird notes - and Sia was playing the piano."
"She records everything on her phone, so we just kind of figured out a chord progression together," Shatkin continued. "She sent it to me on a voice note, and I turned it into a track. She already had the melody instinctively while she was writing the chords. We were real excited that she wanted to do this for her record, and then Greg added his production. I was really proud of it." - Kurstin explained his contribution to Rock Genius: "'Chandelier' was written by Sia and Jesse Shatkin," he said. "Sia brought it in for me to work on and tie into the other songs on the record. I added some acoustic piano, Mellotron and live drums over the track. I left most of Jesse's production; which was awesome."
- The song's music video features a dance performance from a Sia-wigged Maddie Ziegler. The 11-year-old star of Lifetime's Dance Moms was personally asked to be in the clip by the singer. Sia co-directed the visual with Daniel Askill, who previously helmed the visual for her hit single "Breathe Me."
- Speaking with Dazed, Sia explained the blonde bob worn by her in the 1000 Forms of Fear artwork and by Maddie Ziegler in the music video is a layer of protection from the outside world. "I already have a much larger concept for this album and for how I'm going to present it and that was: I don't want to be famous," she said. "If Amy Winehouse was a beehive then I guess I'm a blonde bob. I thought 'well if that's my brand, how can I avoid having to use my face to sell something', so my intention was to create a blonde bob brand."
- The song is a rejoinder to all those pop tunes that celebrate the non-stop party. It is rooted in the now-sober Sia's past struggles with alcoholism. "That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me. I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop," she told NPR. "And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that."
- Sia and Greg Kurstin wrote this very quickly. "'Chandelier' took like four minutes to write the chords, then like 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics," she told NPR. "Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals."
- 1000 Forms Of Fear topped the US albums chart. Sia's previous best was 2008's Some People Have Real Problems, which peaked at #26. In addition to reaching #1 on the Billboard list, the LP reached the summit on the iTunes albums chart in 47 countries.
- The song was a wordwide hit, topping the singles charts in France, Israel and Poland.
- This song featured in a 2014 Saturday Night Live skit where Jim Carrey and Kate McKinnon each show up to a Halloween office gathering dressed as "the child dancer from Sia's 'Chandelier' music video." The sketch resolves with the pair dancing to the song throughout the entire studio.
- Billboard magazine chose this as their Best Song of 2014. They said: "The towering YOLO anthem 'Chandelier' took months to reach the Top 10 of the Hot 100 chart, but pop purveyors embraced its sentiment and Sia's performance almost immediately, turning the camera-shy Australian into an American star."
- Sia concealed her face during performances of this song. When she was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, she sang it with her face obscured by her wig while a mine acted out the song next to her. On The Graham Norton Show, she faced a wall while the dancer Denna Thomsen performed. Sia's faceless appearances were her reaction to the soul-sucking nature of fame and predatory, vapid celebrity journalism.
- This was nominated for Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Music Video and Best Pop Solo Performance, but didn't win any as Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" took the first two and Pharrell Williams' "Happy" the later two.
Sia did perform the song, however, singing it while facing a wall in a set that resembled the music video, while Kristen Wiig and Maddie Ziegler did the interpretive dance. - The video was choreographed by Ryan Heffington, who also did Sia's "Elastic Heart" clip. Speaking with Bullett magazine, he explained: "The song is about addiction, yet the video concept is more abstract than just this. What I find important is that this piece of art has so many interpretations. I don't think I could (or in fact want to) create such definition of the plot, it lives much more vibrant if I do not."
He added: "Early on I requested the architectural detailing of the character's living space and what furniture would inhabit it. Like any of our dwellings we spend an absorbent amount of time in, all material components becomes part of the physical dialogue between us and these objects - walls, furniture, hallways. Although muddled in color and sparse in content, it was a choice to have the environment be rich in means of activity for the character. How often do children find a pile of dirt and a hose the most enthralling playmates? Yes, she may be isolated from other humans or environments, but seemingly rich in imagination with the ability to utilize fantasy to entertain herself via exploring new physical conversations with what simply existed before her eyes."Artistfacts for Sia
- Australian singer-songwriter Sia Furler started her music career in the mid-1990s as a singer in a local Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp. By the 2010s, she was one of the top pop songwriters, but her roots are in more eclectic music - she has called the pop tunes she's written "terribly cheesy."
- After Crisp disbanded in 1997, Sia released her debut studio album OnlySee on Flavoured Records in Australia. The record sold 1,200 copies.
- In 1997 Sia decided to follow a boyfriend named Dan to London. En route to join him, she received the devastating news that he had died after being hit by a car. Sia decided that she would still move to London. After a couple of years in England's capital city, she recorded an album, Healing is Difficult, which dealt with the loss of Dan. The LP was a minor hit in Britain and yielded a Top 10 single, "Taken for Granted."
- Sia first came to the attention of the American public when "Breathe Me" a track from her her third album, Colour the Small One, was used on the fnalt episode of the TV show Six Feet Under.
- Sia relocated to New York City in 2005 and began touring across the US, releasing two albums. Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born. However, by the release of We Are Born in 2010, Sia was a mess. Addicted to painkillers and alcohol and suffering from panic attacks from the incessant cycle of having to promote her music, she contemplated suicide, but was stopped by a friend. Sia began a twelve-step program and focused on writing songs for other artists.
- After success penning hit tunes for the likes of David Guetta ("Titanium") and Rihanna ("Diamonds), Sia signed a contract with RCA to record an album, which stipulated she didn't have to tour or do press appearances to promote it. Sia told NME that she now abides by strict rules for a living as an artist post-recovery. "The game I'm playing is purely for my own emotional well-being," she said. "I'm just not cut out for it."
- The resulting album, 1000 Forms of Fear, was Sia's most successful to date, topping the charts in Australia, Canada and the US and reaching the Top Five in many other territories. So what changed? Sia told Billboard magazine in late 2013: "After 14 years of songwriting, I feel less vulnerable about telling the truth about what's really mine."
- Sia's image now rests on a blonde bob wig, a simple piece of branding that allows her to performances with her back turned to the audience, or with actresses like Lena Dunham or Maddie Ziegler appearing in her place. "I thought it would be a funny joke that I'm getting away with," she told NPR matter-of-factly. "And it was, partly, I don't wanna go out and sell my soul, my body, my peace of mind."
- Sia is a niece of Australian stage, film and television actor Kevin Colson.
- Sia discussed her songwriting process during an interview with Australian radio station Nova 96.9 DJs Fitzy and Wippa. "Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone," she explained. "The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts and I expand on that."
- She tied the knot with documentary film maker Erik Anders at their Palm Springs home on August 3, 2014.
- When it comes to her hit songs, she feels that the visuals have artistic merit while the music is more commercial. She is intrigued by how songs become hits and a little perplexed at why she's so good at creating them.
