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Elastic Heart


single peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart on 5 April 2015 and has since been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. On 7 January 2015, the music video for the song was released. Directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, shot by cinematographer Sebastian Wintero and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, the video features Maddie Ziegler, who previously appeared in the video for Sia's single "Chandelier" and "Big Girls Cry", and actor Shia LaBeouf. In the video, Ziegler and LaBeouf wear nude and dirt
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Be Found video, and included Bollywood dancing. However, discontent with the result, Sia recommissioned Kris Moyes, who previously directed Sia's videos for Buttons and The Girl You Lost to Cocaine. The video features Sia as many puppet-characters - an idea which Moyes apparently came up with on the flight to the shoot. Kris Moyes won best video at the 2010 ARIA Awards - his second such award. Of the video Moyes notes, "under less than amazing circumstances (the clip was shot in Sia’s New York
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Maddie Ziegler


Heart", another Sia video, which has accumulated more than 1 billion YouTube views. Later that year, Ziegler starred in the music video for "Big Girls Cry" to complete her trilogy of videos from Sia's album "1000 Forms of Fear". Ziegler danced to Sia's vocals on several television shows in 2014 and 2015, including "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Dancing with the Stars", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "Saturday Night Live", as well as at the Hollywood Bowl
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Move Your Body (Sia song)


her shoes behind; most of the dance moves expected of her require precise footwork that cannot be done in the sneakers the girl is wearing, so the music video sets up an excuse for her to be in just socks (despite a dusty studio floor), when she is seen leaving her shoes behind so she can squeeze through a wardrobe. The young girl is also shown wearing a black facemask that obscures all her facial features, which is a typical signature of Sia. The music video itself heavily implies that the
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Sia (musician)


Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Music Video. For live performances of songs from "1000 Forms of Fear", Sia chose not to show her face, either facing away from audiences or hiding it behind oversized platinum blonde wigs. In videos for the singles "Chandelier", "Elastic Heart" and "Big Girls Cry", choreographed by Ryan Heffington and co-directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, and in many of the promotional live performances, child dancer Maddie
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Ryan Heffington


UCLA Hammer Museum and Coachella. Heffington is best known for choreographing the music videos for Arcade Fire's "We Exist" (2013) and Sia's "Chandelier" (2014), both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards, and the latter of which won him a VMA Award. Other Sia videos that Heffington has choreographed include "Elastic Heart", "Big Girls Cry", "Cheap Thrills" and "The Greatest". Sia and Heffington's collaborations have "done more to raise the standards of dance
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Chandelier (song)


Sia also performed the song on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on 9 June 2014, with "Girls" star Lena Dunham performing new choreography. In July 2014, Sia performed the song on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and Ziegler taught host Jimmy Kimmel and his sidekick Guillermo some of the dance moves from the music video. In July 2014, Sia performed the song on the VH1's show "SoundClash", along with her songs "Elastic Heart" and "Big Girls Cry" from the album.
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Music (upcoming film)


Music is an upcoming musical film directed by Australian singer-songwriter Sia and starring Kate Hudson, Maddie Ziegler and Leslie Odom Jr. Its screenplay was co-written by Sia and children's book author Dallas Clayton. Sia wrote the songs for the film. Sia Furler announced the film project at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, to star Maddie Ziegler, who starred in a series of music videos that Sia co-directed with Daniel Askill and who has danced during many of Sia's live performances. Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr.
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List of awards and nominations received by Sia


music. Sia has been nominated seven times. The MTV Video Music Awards are awarded annually by MTV for outstanding music videos. Sia has received one award from eight nominations. The MTV Video Music Awards Japan are the Japanese version of the MTV Video Music Awards. Sia has received three nominations. Firstly called "TRL Awards", since 2012 it is presented by MTV Italy changing the name in MTV Italian Music Awards. Sia received 4 nomination. The mtvU Woodie Awards were created by MTV in 2004 to recognize best in music
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Audio (song)


"Audio" is a song by pop music group LSD. The song was released on 10 May 2018, and marks the group's second release, following "Genius". The song's music video was directed by Ernest Desumbila. It opens with Diplo purchasing a used BMW 8 Series and finding a fresh LSD tape in the glovebox. As he hits play on “Audio”, the clip jumps to a young girl walking home from school, who encounters an animated Sia balloon floating through the air. The girl takes
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Big Girls Cry


. On 2 April 2015, "Big Girls Cry" was released as the third single in the United Kingdom. Sia performed "Big Girls Cry" live on Australian television show, "Sunrise" on 21 April 2015. On 2 April 2015, a video for the song was released on Sia's Vevo YouTube channel. The video features Maddie Ziegler in her trademark flesh-coloured leotard and blonde Sia bob facing the camera, in front of a black background, contorting her face and using her hands to express a slew
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Alive (Sia song)


–B, and Sia's vocals span from F to E. "Alive" is a midtempo pop and synth-pop power ballad. The music video for the song directed by Sia and Daniel Askill was released on 5 November 2015. It was shot by cinematographer Mathieu Plainfosse. It stars child karate star Mahiro Takano. The music video was filmed in Japan. A lyric video has been uploaded on October 20, 2015 on Sia's Vevo channel. The video features a black-and-white background, with female figures
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Clap Your Hands (Sia song)


, for their work on "Clap Your Hands". It was voted at number 13 in the annual Triple J Hottest 100 poll in Australia. Kris Moyes won best video for Sia's video for "Clap Your Hands". The song was remixed by Diplo. In keeping with her quirky sense of humour, Sia has been known at live shows to refer affectionately to the song as 'Crap Your Pants'. The music video for the song was originally directed by Claire Carre, who also directed the Soon We'll
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Maddie Ziegler


. A "Teen Vogue" reviewer wrote that Ziegler "delivers another powerful performance". This was followed by a fifth Sia video, later that year, for "The Greatest". The video of the song has accumulated more than 600 million YouTube views. Reviewing Ziegler's performance, Kathleen Hildebrand wrote in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" that anyone who has seen Ziegler's "iconic" movement will never again return to "boringly ordinary" MTV videos. Ziegler continued the collaboration with Sia and the group LSD in the music videos
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Don't Bring Me Down (Sia song)


's 2007 live album, "Lady Croissant". The music video for the song featured a live recording of the song released on the live album Lady Croissant in 2007. It featured Sia singing the song in front of a green screen, interjected with scenes of a young girl named Ella playing with balloons, swimming, and eating ice-cream. Katherine Tomlinson of All Gigs UK said; "'Don't Bring Me Down' features breathy vocals, mirroring the latest style brought to fame by Katie Melua and Norah Jones
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List of awards and nominations received by Sia


album "Best Of..." was released in Australia in 2012. In 2002, Sia received the Breakthrough Songwriter Award from the APRA Music Awards, presented by the Australasian Performing Right Association. Since then, Sia has been nominated for three People's Choice Awards, two Brit Award, four World Music Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. She has won three NRJ Awards, one MTV Video Music Award, ten ARIA Music Awards, and nine APRA Music Awards. Sia has received a total of nine Grammy Award nominations.
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Maddie Ziegler


of 11, by starring in the 2014 video for "Chandelier" by Sia, who discovered her on "Dance Moms". The video won the ARIA Music Award for Best Video and received nominations at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, winning the latter. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2015. It has received more than 2 billion views on YouTube, and at one point it was the 13th most viewed YouTube video of all time.
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Rainbow (Sia song)


"Rainbow" is a song by Sia, released on September 15, 2017, as the lead single from the animated film "" . In the film, the song is performed by a pop singer pegasus named Songbird Serenade (voiced by Sia). The music video for "Rainbow" was released on September 19, 2017. The video was directed by Daniel Askill and features Maddie Ziegler with choreography by Ryan Heffington. The video cuts between footage of Songbird Serenade performing for a packed crowd and Ziegler dancing alone on a
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We Are Born


Kris Moyes won best video for Sia's video for "Clap Your Hands". Sia and Samuel Dixon were nominated for Song of the Year at the 2011 APRA Music Awards for the single "Clap Your Hands". "We Are Born" was noticeably more successful than Sia's previous work and charted in countries where no Sia album had charted before. The album debuted at number 2 on the Australian Albums Chart behind Eminem's "Recovery", at number 37 on the American "Billboard" 200 albums chart, at
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1000 Forms of Fear


she had decided not to show her face in videos and press shots in the campaign for "1000 Forms of Fear"; instead, she focused on creating visual art through her videos. During the promotion of the album, Sia recruited Ziegler to be her persona on stage and performed with her back facing to the camera. On 19 May 2014, Sia performed "Chandelier" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", where Maddie Ziegler recreated the choreography in the music video. Sia also performed the song on "Late Night
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King Bach


uploading his first Vine video on April 19, 2013. He starred in several of Bart Baker's parodies of music videos, portraying Big Sean in "Problem" and "Break Free", Pharrell Williams in "Happy", Juicy J in "Dark Horse", and Tupac Shakur in the parody for Sia's "Big Girls Cry". As of October 2015, Bach lives in the same apartment complex in Hollywood as fellow social media celebrities Amanda Cerny and Juanpa Zurita; they all collaborate with one another to create
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Alexander Burke


“The New Girl,” the theme song for the Broadway Video series “7 Min. in Heaven,” and the score for the documentary feature film “Haunters” (as well as its Music Supervisor). He has also worked with some of music's biggest names and influencers such as playing keys on Kate Pierson’s (The B52s') album “Guitars and Microphones” (produced by Sia), playing piano and mandolin on the Billy Ray Cyrus albums “Change My Mind” and “Thin Line”
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Chandelier (song)


with its video receiving a nomination for Best Music Video. A music video for the song, directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, features dancer Maddie Ziegler. It has been viewed on YouTube more than 2.0 billion times. In support of the single and "1000 Forms of Fear", Sia, often with Ziegler, performed "Chandelier" on a number of American television shows, including "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Late Night with Seth Meyers", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Alive (Sia song)


without their faces shown. Sia wore a two-toned black and blonde wig and the lyrics of the song were written on the walls. The Japanese official music video was released on 7 March 2016. It stars Japanese actress Tao Tsuchiya, who studies Buyō at Japan Women's College of Physical Education, dancing uniquely. Due to a big attention to this video from Japan, "Alive" peaked No. 1 on Billboard Japan Hot 100 on 21 March 2016. "Rolling Stone" critic Jon Blistein described Furler's vocals
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Fire Meet Gasoline


it my new single. It's a lingerie commercial to which I licensed a song." Klum said she was "thrilled" to have Sia's song in her video. "Sia is one of those incredible artists who puts so much passion into her work, and I am thrilled to be part of a music video," Klum said in a statement. "I remember being blown away the first time I heard her voice on 'Breathe Me'. And I love many songs she has written for other artists
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album that gives old-fashioned holiday music "some 21st century pop gloss". National Public Radio called Sia "the 21st century's most resilient songwriter". Sia has received an array of accolades, including ARIA Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and nine nominations for Grammy Awards. Sia lent her voice to the show "South Park" in its eighteenth season. In episode 3 entitled "The Cissy", she portrayed Lorde in a parody song in the episode entitled "Push (Feeling Good on a Wednesday)
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Beau Sia


on television and "Hitch" (2005) as Duane Reade Clerk. Sia portrays the protagonist in the music video for "Wolf Like Me" by the band "TV on the Radio". Sia plays Norman Sklear, a wedding czar emcee in Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2015, Sia appeared in yet another Jonathan Demme film, "Ricki and the Flash", followed by a recurring role on the web series "Pretty Dudes" alongside such actors as Dion Basco and Yoshi Sudarso. Sia, in
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Nostalgic for the Present Tour


it wasn’t out of the question to wonder what we needed her for, anyway. After all, there was a magnetic visual assault to focus on, led by 14-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler, who has starred in five of Sia's music videos since 2014. ... Most of the time, the dancing perfectly complemented the music and asked you to pay attention in different ways than most shows do. ... But Sia was such a passive presence, when things weren’t quite as visually interesting, there wasn’t much
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List of awards and nominations received by Sia


as voted by college students. Sia has been nominated twice. !scope="row" rowspan=2 | 2015 The MVPA Awards are annually presented by a Los Angeles-based music trade organization to honor the year's best music videos. ! rowspan="2" |2008 !|2013 The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards are annual award shows launched by Nickelodeon in several countries. !|2018 The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, created by the music magazine "NME" and was first held in 1953. Sia has been nominated
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Soon We'll Be Found


for its usage of sign language, and called "Some People Have Real Problems" "Sia's best recording yet!" Brian James of Rone Break argued that Sia demonstrated her artistic and musical side with this music video, and said it was "the way music videos should be done." In Australia, "Soon We'll Be Found" debuted at number 89 on the ARIA Singles Chart on the chart issue dated 4 May 2009. The single also charted at number 17 on the Flemish Ultratip chart, and number
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from "Some People Have Real Problems" in February 2009. In May 2009, Sia released "TV Is My Parent" on DVD, which includes a live concert at New York's Hiro Ballroom, four music videos and behind-the-scene footage. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009, Sia won the Best Music DVD category for "TV Is My Parent". She also received a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist Album for "Some People Have Real Problems". In 2009, American singer Christina Aguilera approached
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List of awards and nominations received by Sia


show. Sia has been nominated once. !scope="row"| 2015 The MTV Australia Awards was an annual awards ceremony established in 2005 by MTV Australia. Sia has received one nomination. The MTV Europe Music Awards ("EMAs", originally MTV European Music Awards) were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular songs and singers in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV worldwide viewers consider the best in
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Move Your Body (Sia song)


. The video is set in a photography studio in an American Mall in 1987, and features a girl (portrayed by Lilliana Ketchman) and her parents in a glamour photo shoot until she runs off set, where she finds Sia's signature black-and-blonde wig in a dressing room and tries it on. She then photobombs strangers' posed pictures until her parents drag her away, but the strangers invite her back for even more photos and dance along with her. It is notable that the girl elects to leave
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Déjà Vu (Giorgio Moroder song)


"Déjà Vu" is a song by Italian disc jockey producer Giorgio Moroder, featuring vocals from Australian singer Sia. The song is the third single on Moroder's 2015 album, "Déjà Vu". It was released on 17 April 2015, as a digital download via iTunes. Directed by Alexandra Dahlström, the music video follows a young man (played by Drew Lipson) who visits a hotel and repeatedly encounters multiple Sia lookalikes, that are either loving and kind or manipulative and nasty to the man, who, unfortunately
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Soon We'll Be Found


"Soon We'll Be Found" is a song by Sia Furler. Released on 13 October 2008, "Soon We'll Be Found" is Sia's third single from "Some People Have Real Problems" (2008). The single is only available for download in the UK, but the music video for "Soon We'll Be Found", in which Sia signs the lyrics in American Sign Language, was featured on the United States iTunes Store main page when it became the free music download of the week of
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Soon We'll Be Found


4 November 2008. Sia performed the song on "Later... with Jools Holland" on 7 October 2008, and on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on 13 November 2008. "Soon We'll Be Found" was released in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2008 by Monkey Puzzle Records. The single was made available in other European countries on 12 January 2009. The music video of "Soon We'll Be Found" was directed by Claire Carré. In the music video, Sia sings while signing the lyrics
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Music (upcoming film)


are also set to star. After creating the music video for "Chandelier" in 2014, Sia decided she was "pretty good" at directing and "felt a little bit braver". The film's screenplay was co-written by Sia and children's book author Dallas Clayton based on a one-page story that she had written in 2007. Sia enjoyed the creative process and noted similarities between directing and writing songs. She said: For me, the process was basically, I work out the movie. I
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Alive (Sia song)


US "Billboard" Hot 100, failing to reach the upper half of the chart. The music video for the song was released on 5 November 2015. It has received over 100 million views. The song received generally positive reviews, with critics praising Sia's powerful, electrifying vocals. Sia has performed the song multiple times on camera, including "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Saturday Night Live", and "The X Factor". In September 2015, Sia confirmed that "This Is Acting" lead single
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TV Is My Parent


TV Is My Parent is the first video release by Australian singer-songwriter Sia Furler, released in May 2009 through Starbucks' record label Hear Music. The album features a live concert recorded at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City in 2007, four music videos and additional "behind the scenes" footage. The DVD was released following Sia's previous studio album "Some People Have Real Problems" (2008) and "Live from Sydney EP", released digitally via iTunes also in May 2009. "TV Is My
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Fire Meet Gasoline


Pedro Pascal as a couple in the throes of a dramatic relationship. Somewhere in the middle of the video, Klum's character sets their home on fire and together they watch it burn by its end. Sia never appears in the visual, but her blonde wig does. Sia herself wasn't involved with the shooting of the video, which was directed by Francesco Carrozzini. Although it was believed that she would release a new single, the singer said: "Fire Meet Gasoline is not an official music video, nor is
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TV Is My Parent


Parent" earned Sia the 2009 ARIA Music Award for Best Music DVD. Some online music stores offered the DVD as a bonus with the purchase of her greatest hits album "Best Of..." (2012). "TV Is My Parent" is 95 minutes in length and consists of a live concert filmed at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City on 12 September 2007, four music videos and other "behind the scenes" footage. "TV Is My Parent" earned Sia the 2009 ARIA Music Award for Best Music
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1000 Forms of Fear


Gasoline" was released as the fourth and final single in Germany on 19 June 2015. The official music video for "Chandelier" has been viewed on YouTube more than 2 billion times, and the video for "Elastic Heart" has been viewed more 1 billion times. To promote the project, Sia appeared on a number of TV shows, including "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", where she recruited Maddie Ziegler, who starred in three music videos from the album, as her persona
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Sia (musician)


starring child dancer Maddie Ziegler. In 2016, she released her seventh studio album "This Is Acting", which spawned her first "Billboard" Hot 100 number one single, "Cheap Thrills". The same year, Sia gave her Nostalgic for the Present Tour, which incorporated dancing by Ziegler and others and other performance art elements. Sia wears a wig that obscures her face to protect her privacy. Among the accolades received by Sia are ARIA Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. Her eighth studio album, first
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Boyfriend (Justin Bieber song)


teasers featured Bieber "being groped by several female hands, dancing in front of a large white spotlight a la Michael Jackson, [and] posing menacingly in front of a fire and floating underwater." Nicola Sia also of Idolator considered the scenes where the singer "provocatively whispering into girls’ ears" as too "erotic". However, it was later reported that the music video directed by Tilley was scrapped, and re-shot with Director X on the week of April 21, 2012. The second version of
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List of awards and nominations received by Sia


has been nominated nine times. The Guild of Music Supervisors Awards recognize music supervisors in 14 categories, representing movies, television, games and trailers. The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) recognizes and honors the music of visual mediums (films, TV, movie trailers, video games, commercials, etc.). Sia has been nominated two times. ! !scope="row" rowspan=2|2016 The iHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards show, founded by iHeartRadio in 2014, to recognize the most popular artists and music over the
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Sledgehammer (Rihanna song)


"Sledgehammer" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on June 27, 2016 as a single to promote "Star Trek Beyond". It plays during the film's closing credits but is not included on the film's soundtrack. The song was written by Sia Furler (Sia), Robyn Fenty (Rihanna) and Jesse Shatkin. A music video for the song was released on June 30, 2016, and shows Rihanna performing magical acts on a foreign planet. The video was shot entirely on
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Sia (musician)


, Sia took a hiatus from performing, during which she focused on songwriting for other artists, producing successful collaborations "Titanium" (with David Guetta), "Diamonds" (with Rihanna) and "Wild Ones" (with Flo Rida). In 2014, Sia finally broke through as a solo recording artist when her sixth studio album, "1000 Forms of Fear", debuted at No 1 in the U.S. "Billboard" 200 and generated the top-ten single "Chandelier" and a trilogy of music videos
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Jemima Kirke


Jemima Kirke (born 1985) is an English-American artist and actress. She played Jessa Johansson on the television series "Girls". She made her feature-length debut in the independent film "Tiny Furniture", as a favour for her childhood friend Lena Dunham, although her actual film debut was in the indie short film "Smile for the Camera". In 2017, she starred in Zayn's music video for the single "Dusk Till Dawn" featuring Sia. Born in London to English parents, Kirke
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Sia discography


Australian singer-songwriter Sia has released eight studio albums, six live albums, thirty-six singles (including twelve as a featured artist), and forty-two music videos. In 1997, she released her debut studio album entitled "OnlySee". It was commercially unsuccessful, and none of its songs were released as a single. Sia released her second album, "Healing Is Difficult", in 2001. The album yielded three singles: "Taken for Granted", "Little Man" and "Drink to
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The Greatest (Sia song)


, and Sweden. In its second week on UK Singles Chart, the song climbed to number 5, making it Sia's ninth top ten single on that chart, and Kendrick's second. It later rose to number 2 in Australia, number 1 in Switzerland, and number 18 in the US. In its fourth week on the singles chart, "The Greatest" was certified Gold in both Australia and Canada. The music video was directed by Sia and Daniel Askill and choreographed by Ryan Heffington. The director of Photography
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Chandelier (song)


Music Video of 2014. "VH1" listed it first among the "most groundbreaking" videos of 2014. In 2016, several items related to the "Chandelier" video were introduced into the "Right Here, Right Now" exhibit of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2018, "Billboard" ranked the video the 18th best music video of the 21st century. Sia performed "Chandelier" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on 19 May 2014, with Ziegler recreating the choreography in the music video.
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Big Girls Cry


of emotions. At one point a pair of hands come into the frame (shown in behind-the-scenes footage to be Sia's own hands) manipulating Ziegler's face and covering her mouth, they appear to lift Ziegler by the throat into the air until only her kicking feet are shown, then Ziegler drops back into the frame to resume her emotive facial contortions. The single shot video with various lighting and a plain black background is comparable to Lorde's Tennis Court. Sia revealed, in a behind-the
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The Greatest (Sia song)


by the former two. The song was initially supposed to be in a new album called "We Are Your Children". An accompanying music video for the single was filmed by Sia and Daniel Askill, and portrays American dancer Maddie Ziegler among 48 others. Although the singer has not provided an interpretation of the video's plot, numerous media outlets have perceived it as a tribute to the 49 victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting. Commercially, "The Greatest" reached the top five in several countries and was awarded with certifications
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Best Of... (Sia album)


debuted at number 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart the week of 15 April and reached a peak position of number 27 the following week. The album was announced in February 2012, shortly after Sia made a statement claiming she was retiring. "Best Of..." received promotion in various forms. IE Music/Inertia released a promotional video on YouTube in March 2012. One day prior to the album's release, "Oyster" magazine commemorated Sia's career by publishing their list of her top five collaborations. The compilation album
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Sia (musician)


Sia Kate Isobelle Furler ( ; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer, songwriter and music video director. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album titled "OnlySee" in Australia. She moved to London, England, and provided lead vocals for the British duo Zero 7. In 2000, Sia released her second studio album, "Healing Is Difficult", on the Columbia label the
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Elastic Heart


. It was the eighth most viewed YouTube video in 2015. The video "courted controversy and plaudits in equal measure", with some commentators perceiving it to have pedophilic undertones because it features an adult and child dancing together clad only in beige dancewear. Sia explained that the two dancers represented "warring 'Sia' self states," but she apologized on Twitter to anyone who was upset by the video: I anticipated some "pedophelia!!!" Cries for this video. All I can say is Maddie and Shia
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Nostalgic for the Present Tour


videos like "Chandelier" that featured Maddie Ziegler, achieved considerable success, gaining Sia wider public notice. When Sia performed at various award ceremonies, television shows and other events to promote the album, she wore a wig covering part of her face in an effort to retain some privacy and control over her image. In April 2016, after Sia released her seventh album, "This Is Acting", she performed a live concert for the first time in five years at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The concert
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Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani


famous writer using the pen name Anand and lives as a recluse in Goa. A girl named Sia meets him and after some misunderstandings, it is revealed that she is actually Abhi and Simran's daughter Astha. Sia was raised by the childless and mentally disturbed woman who had kidnapped her. Sia and Abhi reunite and he takes her to Simran. Simran and Neha's daughter, Aastha, are living as mother and daughter. Aastha grows increasing jealous as her best friend Dr. Siddhant starts to take an interest in Sia. Aastha
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Sia (musician)


", but she nevertheless apologized on Twitter to anyone who was "triggered". Gia Kourlas wrote in "The New York Times" in 2016 that Sia's collaborations with Heffington have "done more to raise the standards of dance in pop music than nearly any current artist integrating the forms". In 2014, Sia contributed to the soundtrack to the 2014 film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Annie". Sia, along with producer Greg Kurstin, wrote three new songs for the film as well as re-working songs
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List of awards and nominations received by Sia


"Chandelier" was nominated for Record and Song of the Year at the 2015 ceremony. The Antville Music Video Awards are online awards for the best music video and music video directors of the year. They were first awarded in 2005. ! The APRA Music Awards are presented by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The awards recognise achievements by APRA's "outstanding songwriter, composer and publisher members in Popular Contemporary, Art Music and Screen Music". Nominations and winners are determined by the more than 60,000 eligible voting
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1000 Forms of Fear


onstage, during 2014 and 2015. "1000 Forms of Fear" earned Sia three ARIA Music Awards in 2014 and was listed as one of the best albums of 2014 by several publications, including "The Boston Globe" and "Rolling Stone". The lead single "Chandelier" received four Grammy nominations for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, and Best Music Video. In 2010, Sia released her fifth studio album, "We Are Born", which peaked at number two
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Alive (Sia song)


seventh studio album. Musically, it is a midtempo pop and synth-pop song. On 22 September 2015, Sia posted a tweet on Twitter which hinted that the single would be released on September 25. The next day she released a 15-second preview of the music video on her Vevo account. The song achieved moderate commercial success, reaching the top 40 in over 15 countries, including Spain, Belgium and France. In the UK, the song 30 on the UK Singles Chart. The song reached number 56 on the
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Sledgehammer (Rihanna song)


’ is a powerful pop ballad with a huge chorus, that should do well in combination with the probable success of its movie...but it might be time for Sia to shake up her formula a bit, as ‘Sledgehammer’ is in no way a surprising composition." A music video for the song premiered June 30, 2016 in IMAX theaters at 9:00am EST. The video was then released onto Vevo and Tidal an hour later. The music video was the first to be shot entirely with IMAX cameras. The music
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1000 Forms of Fear


with Seth Meyers" on 9 June 2014, with "Girls" star Lena Dunham performing the choreography. On 4 July 2014, Sia made an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", where she performed "Chandelier", "Big Girls Cry" and "Elastic Heart". On 30 July 2014, Sia performed "Chandelier", "Elastic Heart" and "Big Girls Cry" on the VH1's show "SoundClash". On 17 January 2015, Sia performed "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart"
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Sia lives on Kilimanjaro


Sia lives on Kilimanjaro (original Swedish title: Sia bor på Kilimandjaro) is a children's book written by Astrid Lindgren and with photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick. The original Swedish edition was published in 1958 by the Rabén & Sjögren publishing company in Stockholm. The English translation was published in 1959, in London by Methuen, and in New York by Macmillan. The book was published as part of the "Children's Everywhere" photo book series. It is a story of a little girl who wants to visit the
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Battle Cry (Angel Haze song)


"Battle Cry" is a song recorded by American rapper Angel Haze. It released as the second single from Haze's debut album "Dirty Gold", on January 9, 2014 The song, produced by Greg Kurstin, features guest vocals from Australian singer-songwriter Sia. An official music video for the song was directed by Frank Borin and released onto their official VEVO account on February 14, 2014. The music video was nominated for "Best Video with a Social Message" at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Mud Blood


thought it was "dramatic" and positively noticed that Nottet "play[ed] with the idea of light and shade". He also likened the music video's ending to Lewis Carroll's novel "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871). CelebMix's Currinn praised the clip and called it "art", while Wyzman of Melty commended Nottet's choreography and charisma. Adams, writing for Wiwibloggs, noticed the music video's highly cinematic quality and likened it to music videos released by Australian singer Sia. "Mud Blood
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BonBon (Era Istrefi song)


the song's music video went viral after excerpts of it began being posted on social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram, comparing Istrefi to Rihanna and Sia. Following the video's success, Istrefi was signed to American record labels Sony Music Entertainment and Ultra Music. In early March 2016, the video was removed from the NESËR YouTube channel after generating 30+ million views, and was uploaded to Ultra Music's official YouTube channel. In March 2016, it raised 100 million views and in the end of the year it
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Larsen Thompson


' went viral receiving over 4 million views, in 2016. Later that year her choreographed YouTube video for 'Run The World' also went viral receiving over 8 million views. Thompson also appeared in Sia's music video for "The Greatest", and Borns' track "American Money" in 2016. In 2017, Thompson was featured in P!nk's music video "Beautiful Trauma", and Katy Perry's video in "Chained to the Rhythm". In 2018, Thompson collaborated with Marc Jacobs for the brand's
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On and Off (Maggie Rogers song)


, and dance), Rogers' music is united by the brazen heart she wears on her sleeve." A music video, directed by Zia Anger, was released on February 1, 2017. Carter Shelter of "Paste" described the music video: "[the video] sees Rogers and a trio of backup dancers working through choreography and costume changes in what appears to be one continuous take. Rogers comes across as charming, lacking the distance that often results from traditional pop shine (see: Sia), which
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Best Of... (Sia album)


Out in Perth", an LGBT publication based in Perth, Western Australia, appreciated an album of Sia highlights and wrote that "Bring Night", "Buttons" and "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine" "[sparkle] like supernovas". "Rabbit Hole Urban Music" Steve Smart awarded the compilation four out of five stars. Smart thought the album was long but inclusive of many genres; he called the production "super smooth... classy but not edgeless". "Rave Magazine" Alasdair Duncan also rated
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Justin Shave


Justin Shave, better known as Shave, is an Australian music producer/composer and sonic technologist. Shave as he is more lovingly known also works simultaneously across the TV, record and advertising industries. With a string of platinum records, he has helped artists and brands around the world find their sound and sonic identity. In recent years he has produced tracks for [https://www.nme.com/news/music/tqx-sia-unveil-epic-video-day-moved-2158220 TQX and Sia, Darren Hayes [Savage Garden], the Potbelleez and was responsible for the orchestral arrangements for the Ministry of Sound tour in 2017.
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Maddie Ziegler


. By the end of 2015, Ziegler had performed with Sia on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" three times. She also performed to "Chandelier", alongside Sia and Kristen Wiig, at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart" videos were both selected as part of PopSugar's 2016 list of "25 of the Best Dance Videos of the Last Decade". In 2016, Ziegler starred in a fourth Sia video, "Cheap Thrills", from the album "This Is Acting"
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Humse Hai Liife


Humse Hai Liife is an Indian soap opera aimed at a young audience, which aired on Channel V India. The show premiered on 5 September 2011 and ended on 30 November 2012. This was actually a love story between a young girl named Sia Dhillon and Raghav. The girl struggles with her life and aims to be a boxer. Sia Dhillon— She struggled a lot with her life at Adarsh Colony, a place known for its lower-middle-class families as well as for small time thieves like Rangeela, who
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Whiskey Girl


little whiskey girl." In the video she is the object of fantasy for a mechanic at an autoshop Keith is visiting. According to Scotty Emerick, the little whiskey girl is "the epitome of a redneck girl who ain't into wine and beer or tequila". Amy Weber, a WWE Diva, appeared in the music video, which was directed by Michael Salomon. The video was released on March 27, 2004. In the music video, Weber was in a auto mechanic suit, and then she took off
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Buttons (Sia song)


Spinnin Records. The Chris Lake Vocal Mix is included on the album, "Ultra Music Festival 03" The CSS remix is included on the album, "Triple J Hottest 100, Vol. 17" after coming in at number 50 in the annual poll. In a review of the album "We Are Born", Bradley Stern of MuuMuse said "Bubblier up-tempos, such as 'Buttons' ... demonstrated Sia's ability to go beyond the realm of the ballad." The video clip was directed by Kris
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Sia (musician)


song, "Rainbow", to . Sia wrote a screenplay based on a one-page story that she had written in 2007. Maddie Ziegler stars in the project, along with Kate Hudson. The musical film, titled "Music", is directed by Sia, with her songs, and has an expected release in October 2019. Sia wrote the songs for the soundtrack to the 2018 musical film "Vox Lux", with a score by Scott Walker. Following the disbandment of Crisp in 1997, Sia decided to
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Kris Moyes


made. Moyes has had close ties to Modular Records since 2005. He is probably better known for his videos for Softlightes and The Presets. In 2008 Moyes directed a traditional performance based music video for Wolfmother "White Unicorn" on the condition that Pav, the head of Modular Records allowed him to deface his own work and re-release it, under the pseudonym Banditobruce. The piece of subterfuge was a reference to Marcel Duchamp's Readymade, L.H.O.O.Q. Moyes has also directed four music videos for Sia Furler. His first video
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Fire Meet Gasoline


"Fire Meet Gasoline" is a song recorded by Australian singer and songwriter Sia for her sixth studio album, "1000 Forms of Fear" (2014). It was written by Sia, Greg Kurstin and Samuel Dixon. Kurstin also produced the song. It was released in Germany on June 19, 2015 as the album's fourth and final single. The music video was released on 23 April 2015 on YouTube. It was filmed for Heidi Klum's lingerie line, and stars Klum and "Game of Thrones" actor
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Flames (song)


just super excited that we get to release another track together." At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, "Flames" earned Sia a nomination for Best Female Artist. The song is performed in the key of F minor with a tempo of 94 beats per minute in common time. The chorus of the song follows a progression of Cm–E–Fm–D, and Sia's vocals span from B to C. A lyric video for "Flames" was released on 22 March 2018. It was directed by Joe
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Don't Bring Me Down (Sia song)


"Don't Bring Me Down" is a 2003 song by Australian singer Sia Furler. It was released in Australia in November 2003 (and in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2004) as the first single from her third studio album "Colour the Small One" (2004). The track was written by Sia and Blair MacKichan who had recently worked with Will Young's on his Brit Award winning song, "Your Game". The track received little promotion and did not chart. In the video "The making
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Children's Everywhere


"Elle Kari", "Noriko-San : girl of Japan", "Sia lives on Kilimanjaro", "Lilibet circus child", "Dirk lives in Holland", "Noy lives in Thailand" and "Gennet lives in Ethiopia". On 5th August 2016 a new film, "Africa! Sia lives on Kilimanjaro", was published. This time the director Dvorit Shargal goes to Africa to find Sia from "Sia lives on Kilimanjaro" ("Sia bor på Kilimandjaro"). At 20th October
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Feels Like Heaven (Reigan Derry song)


receives from someone they love. Upon its release, "Feels Like Heaven" received positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the production and Derry's vocal delivery. Some critics also felt that its musical style and Derry's vocals were reminiscent of Florence and the Machine and Sia. The song debuted at number 37 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The accompanying music video was directed by Mitchel Tuul and Hugh Martin, and filmed in Adelaide. It features scenes of Derry singing the song's lyrics and playing the guitar in her
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Filhaal...


baby girl after 7–8 months. Unfortunately, Sahil disagrees with what Sia did and abruptly breaks off their relationship. Rewa and Dhruv do everything to make sure that Sia takes care of herself and the baby stays healthy. However, cracks between Rewa and Sia begin to surface. Rewa is jealous that Dhruv is spending more time with Sia and is frustrated as she is not able to experience the joy of carrying a child. Rewa begins to lash out at Sia and at times insults her. Things come to a halt when Sia
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Corporate affairs of Singapore Airlines


who was responsible for building up the Singapore Girl brand name and its partner since 1972. The image of the Singapore Girl would still remain, although SIA will now focus on advertising and promoting its modern fleet and technology instead. On 16 April 2007, the airline appointed New York-based advertising agent TBWA\ to handle its creative advertising for the airline. The contract is worth S$50 million per year over the following five years. Stephen Forshaw, SIA's Vice-President of Public Affairs, said they will start the new branding
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Sia (musician)


, Poland, the United Kingdom, Russia, Lebanon and Israel. In September 2016, she released a single, "The Greatest", with vocals from American hip hop recording artist Kendrick Lamar. A video was released the same day featuring Ziegler – the dancer's fifth video collaboration with Sia and Heffington. The two performed the song with several other dancers, and also performed "Chandelier", live the next day at the Apple annual fall event, drawing media attention. The videos that Sia has posted to her YouTube
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Stop Girl


Stop Girl is the 7th Mini Album by South Korean boy band U-KISS. The title track is "Stop Girl" and it is the first album without new member AJ who went on hiatus to Columbia University. The music video for "Stop Girl" was released September 19, 2012. On September 12, 2012 UKISS revealed the teaser for their new single "Stop Girl". It was followed up by the release of the music video on September 19. On September 23, they released the dance practice video
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Cheyenne Jackson


a developmental artist deal through Sony/ATV's Hickory Records and Red Distribution. On 10 May 2012, Jackson released his single "Drive", his first non-theatrical single and his first music video release. The video was directed by Austrian music video director Christian Hörlesberger and the track produced by Thomas "Tawgs" Salter. It was the first single released from "I'm Blue, Skies", which was eventually released in June 2013. The album was co-written by Jackson himself with Sia Furler, Stephen
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Titanium (song)


preview of the video was uploaded to Guetta's official YouTube account on December 16, 2011. The preview showed a young boy (played by actor Ryan Lee) in the smoky woods running away from a SWAT team of men. The video then closes with the caption, "The Music Video Coming Soon". The full video premiered online on December 20, 2011. Neither Guetta nor Sia appear in the video. Jason Lipshutz of "Billboard" magazine noted that "the supernatural scene and suburban setting" in the video
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Waterfall (Stargate song)


with Sia credited as a featured artist. However, the track was rejected as the original tracklist for the album was leaked and Cashmere Cat scrapped most of the project, delaying the release date of the album. Sia, however, was determined to search for a worthy artist for the song and gave it to Stargate instead, recruiting P!nk along the way. "Stereogum"s Peter Helman opined that the song "sounds very 2017." The music video was released on 16 March 2017 featuring sky dancing by Inka Henriikka Tiitto and Amalie
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My Little Pony: The Movie (soundtrack)


World", which was used in the film's first trailer. Other artists included in the album are American band DNCE and K-pop singer CL. Sia's "Rainbow" was released as a single on September 15, 2017. In a Facebook Live session on September 12, 2017, Twilight Sparkle (voiced by Tara Strong) and Pinkie Pie (voiced by Andrea Libman) announced that the song's music video would be released on "Entertainment Weekly" Facebook page on September 14, featuring Sia's regular alter
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Dusk Till Dawn (Zayn song)


"Dusk Till Dawn" is a song recorded by British singer and songwriter Zayn featuring Australian singer and songwriter Sia. It was released as a single on 7 September 2017 by RCA Records, and appears on the Japanese edition of his second studio album "Icarus Falls" (2018). It was written by Zayn Malik, Sia Furler, Alex Oriet, David Phelan and Greg Kurstin, and produced by Kurstin. The song's accompanying music video was released on the same day, it features Zayn and British-American actress
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Geek and Gamer Girls


"Geek and Gamer Girls", stylized G33K & G4M3R Girls, is a music video by the girl group Team Unicorn. It pays tribute to women who love gaming, manga, and science fiction. The video reached 1 million views in its first week online but met with a mixed reception over its portrayal of the women. "Robot Chicken" creator Seth Green performs a rap in the video. Actress Katee Sackhoff and comic book creator Stan Lee also appear. The music video is noted for its abundance of cultural
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017 film)


Around 5,800 pages of sheet music were created for all orchestral parts of the score. Recording for the score began on June 5, 2017, and finished on June 11. An album containing the background music scores from the film was released on November 16, 2018. Sia contributed an original song to the film, "Rainbow", which was released as a single on September 15, 2017. A music video for the song later released by "Entertainment Weekly" on September 19. The video was directed by Daniel Askill
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Myself (album)


8 August 2010, Tsai released the music video of "Love Player", and it was directed by Marlboro Lai who has collaborated with Tsai on the music video of "Real Man", "Butterfly", and "Bravo Lover". Tsai also dedicated several ideas for the music video, including story script and color tone. The music video described a love player two-timed a girl, and the girl danced to relieve the negative feelings. Tsai added: "The lyrics of the song are about meeting a
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1000 Forms of Fear


digital download onto the iTunes Stores on 17 March 2014. A music video for the song was released on 6 May 2014 and has been viewed on YouTube more than 2 billion times. It features dancer Maddie Ziegler in a blonde wig resembling a Sia hairstyle. The single became a commercial success, peaking at number eight on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, becoming the first single by Sia to appear on the chart as a lead artist. "Chandelier" also peaked within the top five of record charts in Europe and
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Mr. Chu


close up of all of the girls and a mysterious man picking up a tennis ball. Throughout the Music video, it seems like Mr. Chu is pointed out to the popular guy who plays tennis while the girl watching attentively. The girls can be seen squeezing love letters and gifts into his locker that already stuffed with presents. At the end of the music video, they show the calendar of March with all dates being crossed off until a kiss mark on the 31st, pointed out to the day the music video was released
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Singapore Girl


Singapore Girl is a consistent visual advertising slogan applied to depictions of flight attendants of Singapore Airlines (SIA) dressed in the distinctive "sarong kebaya" SIA uniform, in use since 1972, and remains a prominent element of SIA's marketing. Singapore Airlines' hospitality and cabin service have been widely recognised with awards from magazines, travel and tourism industries, including the 'World's Best Cabin Crew Service' by the Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Awards for 23 consecutive years. Since its inception, the long-running campaign emphasises
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Cheap Thrills (song)


three dancers wear beige, with black and blonde hairstyles and gloves in the half-and-half style used in most of Sia's videos for "This Is Acting". They dance on a bare stage, with Sia at a rear corner in the background singing into a microphone while wearing a similar bobbed two-toned wig, a large bow and a white dress. "Billboard" wrote that "the video features the same type of intense, captivating choreography as some of [Sia's] other work. This
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The Girl You Lost to Cocaine


"The Girl You Lost to Cocaine" (sometimes titled "The Girl You Lost") is a song by Australian singer Sia. It was released on 27 March 2008 as the second single from her studio album "Some People Have Real Problems". Sia said the album "Some People Have Real Problems" was an easy album to write, except for, "The Girl You Lost" which took longer to pen than the other tracks. She explained: "It's like a bath. It's a big
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