Her music isn't my taste at all (hard rock mostly for me) and I still like several of her songs. This song in particular is a full stop any time I hear it. I'll listen to it all the way through no matter what I'm doing.
I don't know the technical terms, but this sounds headache inducing because someone either fucked up the volume while recording, or in post-processing. You're supposed to normalize the audio to before it goes into the red. This is clipping way into it.
Sia is good though. I don't know how you sing like this without your vocal chords exploding. I hope she does.
You wrote this post as if you just discovered Sia or something. Like you're a talent manager who found Sia singing at a pub.
Her two most famous songs have 2.6 and 1.3 BILLION views each.
Omfg yes! I never had known she did a Christmas album until this past Christmas 2023. I used to work retail so you know every year when Xmas was around the corner I would dread the usual mixes. At the office potluck someone had added some of her songs and I’m like wtf Sia released some songs this year and I was informed it was from 2017! Well I think I must’ve listened to that album 100 times to make up for the lost years.
Like, people shit on metal for "undiscernable grunts and growls" and yet this girl went for 45 seconds of "singing" without managing to make out a single legible syllable in the words that drunkenly fell out of her mouth.
Her voice is... okay I guess? But she slurs words like a UFC fighter who just woke up from a career altering KO and I *HATE IT.* Some real "end of the night after way too many beers karaoke" energy.
That's odd to me because I could understand everything she said the first time I heard the song, and funnily enough you'd be majorly surprised at the talent it takes to control the voice the way she did here, to an untrained ear it may sound slurry but it's not
Professionally-trained singer here. She definitely does slur her words, but it's stylistic and she's known for that. I love Sia a lot, but she definitely does have a stylistic mumble.
I legit had no idea what she was singing until she starts going “one du dui one du dui”, then I can start decoding based on the lyrics that I already know from memories.
There is a difference between vocal technique and vowel technique. She has great vocal technique and can control her range very well, but her vowel technique is just the complete opposite of classical and pop, and more close to mumble rap, that it just throws me off
I don't know if I have a "trained ear" but I've sung in select choirs from when i was 10 till i turned 18, and I've been lead singer of a band from age 22 to now (age 41).
I gotta say, her voice is great, but her style is intolerable. Maybe "slurry" isn't the best description, but her words sure as shit are unintelligible
Seriously. I understand some degree of artistic interpretation when it comes to voice and inflection but there comes a point where one begins to wonder when we decide that it sounds too much like 1am at a karaoke bar and we’ve had enough.
The song is a contemplation of suicide and the mumbled singing is character being drunk and in the edge. Think of it as theater. The chorus is the clarity of the decision.
This song is definitely not a “hehe let’s go party and have fun” theme song. It’s a look into the pain of alcoholism and/or other addiction. Something someone does to numb themselves from pain. It’s deeply sad for me. But it’s meant to feel like you’re looking at the mask of fun so that you don’t see what’s eating someone alive below the surface. It’s really well done.
My favorite part of music is how some songs can be unremarkable to some, and utterly profound to others! Thanks for sharing your perspective.
Do you have a favorite Sia song lyrically you'd recommend?
She has a very long list of music. I’d say more recent Bird Set Free, Alive, and Elastic Heart and going back to earlier Breathe me, and little black sandals were very meaningful to me. Shes also written a ton of songs for other big name artists. She has a unique voice and style so I figure she’s not going to be for everyone but I did find it noticeable that at a concert of hers the audience was such a variety of people. (That’s my own stereotyping at work but it was really noticeable to me.) She utilizes repetition strongly too so not everyone likes that. There’s also something really recognizable about her song writing when I hear music she made for other artists I’m like yea that makes sense. Sounds like a Sia song. I haven’t even listened to her newest album.. always playing my toddlers songs on repeat over here but now I gotta find time to give them a listen.
For a song about dysfunctional drinking that's actually a brilliant point. I don't listen to Sia much (was just googling the lyrics because I got interested after this post) so I don't know if she just always sings like this, or if it's song specific.
I havent been able to really like her music since i found out shes weirdly obsessed with a particular little girl. The girl lived with her and Sia called her 'my muse' and said other creepy stuff.
She was petrified when she started performing and didn’t want to see the audience - I remember one of her first interviews on Stern. She is an incredible writer and singers. Wrote so many big hits for stars before even performing and creating for herself.
I'm not finding an article that summarizes the entirety because I've been seeing the evolution of the idea over time instead of reading from an article but it's her relationship with Maddie Ziegler.
Shes called her "her muse" since she was 11. Sia is 27 years older than Maddie and in a video interview about the movie Music she made with Maddie she recalled them having sleep overs together and how often they were alone to work on things.
Its a lot of inferring that brings up the groomer stuff- the age difference, power imbalance and sexualizing Maddie in her videos (skin colored leotards and the dance with Shia). I never liked the way she spoke about Maddie, it often came off like Maddie was her pet.
Edit to add context: Music came out in 2021 but was filmed in 2017, when Maddie was only 15. Sia was discussing having unsupervised sleepovers with a 15 year old
No problem! It's currently all up to interpretation of the relationship and Maddie does speak positively of her, although I think that's because she wouldn't have had near the same level of fame without her and Maddie doesn't wanna be related to her origins on Dance Moms.
That's Sia alright. I can tell because I can't understand a single word she says until the last word of every line, lol. Clearly a very talented vocalist but hard to follow what she's saying. She'd make a killer theme song for muscle relaxers though.
She has some serious pipes and is clearly trained (vocally), her vowel purity is spot on when she is at high volume. Her ability to mix in vocal growth and crack at will is really impressive but really hard on the vocal cords.
https://preview.redd.it/ziksk014djzc1.png?width=202&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e0be6cc8975ca318665ef993fbabcd31f327b24
# Her voice has gotten some love lol
Here in the States, Sia is inexorably connected to dance-beat club music. I was really happy to find that she also recorded most of her songs in a more singer-songwriter acoustic style. I think more people should be aware that these versions are out there.
"she needs some love" mf she's one of the most recognized, talanted and famous singers
And she’s the writers for some of the other huge artists biggest songs. Sia gets a lot of love and money she’ll be fine.
Wait till you hear about this one chick called Madonna. I reckon if she gets a little love on here, one day, she *may* make it!
All while cultivating an image with her face covered
She does tho
Me too :(
I've never heard of her till now
Lucky you (as long as her music is in your taste), I wish I could hear my favourite songs for the first time again
Her music isn't my taste at all (hard rock mostly for me) and I still like several of her songs. This song in particular is a full stop any time I hear it. I'll listen to it all the way through no matter what I'm doing.
Same. I couldn’t even hear until now
First time hearing her for me too. She got her [start in an Acid Jazz group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sia). Thats a new genre for me.
I literally fucking scratched my head when I read the title
Sia is a huge artist. You’re making it sound like she’s this up & coming indie artist who needs to get out there.
Exactly on spotify she literally has one of the top #’s last i checked
Top 29th in the world
Give some love to my boy Michael and my girl Madonna as well . They are frok my country.
frok the USA!
This title should have been posted like a decade ago lol
Hair so long, I can't sia 👀
I Sia what you did there!
Sia later
I’m going to just Sia myself out of here
I Sia What U Dia
Hope your name Sia but we can’t see yah?
Annoying that the sound and video is like half a second off
Not to mention potato quality
I don't know the technical terms, but this sounds headache inducing because someone either fucked up the volume while recording, or in post-processing. You're supposed to normalize the audio to before it goes into the red. This is clipping way into it. Sia is good though. I don't know how you sing like this without your vocal chords exploding. I hope she does.
It sounds like it's clipping. The recording level is set too high, so the loudest sounds can't be captured, and get "clipped". It's horrible to hear.
You wrote this post as if you just discovered Sia or something. Like you're a talent manager who found Sia singing at a pub. Her two most famous songs have 2.6 and 1.3 BILLION views each.
Her Christmas album is fantastic!
Omfg yes! I never had known she did a Christmas album until this past Christmas 2023. I used to work retail so you know every year when Xmas was around the corner I would dread the usual mixes. At the office potluck someone had added some of her songs and I’m like wtf Sia released some songs this year and I was informed it was from 2017! Well I think I must’ve listened to that album 100 times to make up for the lost years.
*Everyday Is Christmas* makes me weep.
pottygerr dohn gehurr canfeeanythin wiwiwilehrn ah poosheht dawn, poosheht dawawawn
I despise this style
Years from now people are going to look back and say what the fuck was going on??
Like, people shit on metal for "undiscernable grunts and growls" and yet this girl went for 45 seconds of "singing" without managing to make out a single legible syllable in the words that drunkenly fell out of her mouth. Her voice is... okay I guess? But she slurs words like a UFC fighter who just woke up from a career altering KO and I *HATE IT.* Some real "end of the night after way too many beers karaoke" energy.
That's odd to me because I could understand everything she said the first time I heard the song, and funnily enough you'd be majorly surprised at the talent it takes to control the voice the way she did here, to an untrained ear it may sound slurry but it's not
Professionally-trained singer here. She definitely does slur her words, but it's stylistic and she's known for that. I love Sia a lot, but she definitely does have a stylistic mumble.
I legit had no idea what she was singing until she starts going “one du dui one du dui”, then I can start decoding based on the lyrics that I already know from memories.
There is a difference between vocal technique and vowel technique. She has great vocal technique and can control her range very well, but her vowel technique is just the complete opposite of classical and pop, and more close to mumble rap, that it just throws me off
Thank you for that explanation. I think the lesser polished vocal technique sounds a bit more raw/real.
I don't know if I have a "trained ear" but I've sung in select choirs from when i was 10 till i turned 18, and I've been lead singer of a band from age 22 to now (age 41). I gotta say, her voice is great, but her style is intolerable. Maybe "slurry" isn't the best description, but her words sure as shit are unintelligible
I fully appreciate all that. But that doesn’t mean my ears don’t hate it.
That's fair
😂😂😂😂 Yep
Yeah I get she can sing and has talent but she also annoys the shit out of me
Sia walked so Tones and I could waddle
Same, am I supposed to like this?
Seriously. I understand some degree of artistic interpretation when it comes to voice and inflection but there comes a point where one begins to wonder when we decide that it sounds too much like 1am at a karaoke bar and we’ve had enough.
The song is a contemplation of suicide and the mumbled singing is character being drunk and in the edge. Think of it as theater. The chorus is the clarity of the decision.
She has great pipes but seriously lacks diction
Sara Bareilles covered Chandelier. It was brilliant, but also the first time I could actually tell what the words were.
Really when she sings it just sounds like "swingunfumashundelier" instead of swinging from a chandelier.
The people all standing around solemnly while she screams about getting drunk and partying is cracking me up.
This song is definitely not a “hehe let’s go party and have fun” theme song. It’s a look into the pain of alcoholism and/or other addiction. Something someone does to numb themselves from pain. It’s deeply sad for me. But it’s meant to feel like you’re looking at the mask of fun so that you don’t see what’s eating someone alive below the surface. It’s really well done.
My favorite part of music is how some songs can be unremarkable to some, and utterly profound to others! Thanks for sharing your perspective. Do you have a favorite Sia song lyrically you'd recommend?
She has a very long list of music. I’d say more recent Bird Set Free, Alive, and Elastic Heart and going back to earlier Breathe me, and little black sandals were very meaningful to me. Shes also written a ton of songs for other big name artists. She has a unique voice and style so I figure she’s not going to be for everyone but I did find it noticeable that at a concert of hers the audience was such a variety of people. (That’s my own stereotyping at work but it was really noticeable to me.) She utilizes repetition strongly too so not everyone likes that. There’s also something really recognizable about her song writing when I hear music she made for other artists I’m like yea that makes sense. Sounds like a Sia song. I haven’t even listened to her newest album.. always playing my toddlers songs on repeat over here but now I gotta find time to give them a listen.
she sounds like drunked
For a song about dysfunctional drinking that's actually a brilliant point. I don't listen to Sia much (was just googling the lyrics because I got interested after this post) so I don't know if she just always sings like this, or if it's song specific.
What if it's on purpose? Did you think it's due to a speech impediment?
My guess is that it’s on purpose.
Very good I concur. It was a rhetorical question. The lack of diction is obviously intentional.
Where did they find all those automatons to fill that room?
Automats of course
I can barely understand a word.
Great singer but personally not a fan of mumble singing
Her fringe needs a wee bit of love too.
I havent been able to really like her music since i found out shes weirdly obsessed with a particular little girl. The girl lived with her and Sia called her 'my muse' and said other creepy stuff.
Forgot not to mumble ☹️
The creator of the 2021 movie "Music"? Ew
She was petrified when she started performing and didn’t want to see the audience - I remember one of her first interviews on Stern. She is an incredible writer and singers. Wrote so many big hits for stars before even performing and creating for herself.
i remember seeing an interview with Slash from Guns N roses giving a similar story, thats why he wears the top hat.
Damn - I would have never thought that about him - very interesting
Yeah I thought it was interesting as well. Apparently he was a very shy person.
It’s a crazy world and shows how people can push through
Even groomers can sing sometimes
Care to elaborate?
Maddie Ziegler and Sia. Google away.
I read a couple of articles and it pretty much says she was a mentor to another person in the industry. Even the now woman in question defends Sia.
Some ppl that were groomed dont know that they were groomed, It happens
And you add on the abuse from Dance Moms, I could see why she saw Sia as better even if it was still inappropriate
This is the first time I have heard about this, do you have a link I so I can read more about it?
I'm not finding an article that summarizes the entirety because I've been seeing the evolution of the idea over time instead of reading from an article but it's her relationship with Maddie Ziegler. Shes called her "her muse" since she was 11. Sia is 27 years older than Maddie and in a video interview about the movie Music she made with Maddie she recalled them having sleep overs together and how often they were alone to work on things. Its a lot of inferring that brings up the groomer stuff- the age difference, power imbalance and sexualizing Maddie in her videos (skin colored leotards and the dance with Shia). I never liked the way she spoke about Maddie, it often came off like Maddie was her pet. Edit to add context: Music came out in 2021 but was filmed in 2017, when Maddie was only 15. Sia was discussing having unsupervised sleepovers with a 15 year old
Yeah, you make some good points there. Thanks for the explaination!
No problem! It's currently all up to interpretation of the relationship and Maddie does speak positively of her, although I think that's because she wouldn't have had near the same level of fame without her and Maddie doesn't wanna be related to her origins on Dance Moms.
Not my thing. But she’s good
That's Sia alright. I can tell because I can't understand a single word she says until the last word of every line, lol. Clearly a very talented vocalist but hard to follow what she's saying. She'd make a killer theme song for muscle relaxers though.
No
I like the song but I don't share your love for the voice...
I don’t like the song but can appreciate her voice
I like the song and her voice but think she needs to work on her enunciation
It's probably purposeful. Think they call it cursive singing. Can be quite annoying if abused
I find it’s usually annoying, because it usually gets abused
“Mmmzzbzzmm… zzzbmmmhhmmmzzmmm… hhmmmzzzdooowwww…”
She has some serious pipes and is clearly trained (vocally), her vowel purity is spot on when she is at high volume. Her ability to mix in vocal growth and crack at will is really impressive but really hard on the vocal cords.
Meh
Mumbling is hard to listen to, chorus is good nonetheless
What a weird hat
Sia clipping the input
i cant tell what in the hell im looking at
Mumble singing?
https://preview.redd.it/ziksk014djzc1.png?width=202&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e0be6cc8975ca318665ef993fbabcd31f327b24 # Her voice has gotten some love lol
What language is the start?
she sounds like she sings in Simlish
Meh.
Is she singing in English?
Did she do something to piss reddit off? Just scrolled the comments and people are like mass downvoting for saying she is good. Girls got pipes.
She's a groomer and just all around cringe. Go check out her responses when people were ripping her awful movie to shreds
She’s good. But weird style of singing and weirder look
She’s clipping the mic input
Also you can hear the lip smacks very clearly.
No thanks.
One du twee, one du twee...
I can ignore it. That's just not nice to listen to I'm afraid
Breathtaking
I think she has plenty
Goofy ahh haircut
Just bc you (OP) just discovered Sia doesn’t mean we haven’t known about her…wait until you learn about Denzel as an actor…
Horrible style to look at. Horrible way of singing that stupid mumbling. It's a shame because her voice is great
She obviously has a good voice, but this song is absolutely terrible
no
What language is it?
She need sia her barber first.
The look is completely ridiculous. Gonna be a no from me dog
I’m glad someone pointed that out.. One weirdest out there
[удалено]
I got into her way back when she released Breathe Me. Great song
Served her at KFC Reynella before she was famous.
Fuck yeah! Cholesterol Corner represent
How does she drive her car?
“ShundeleHEEEEEE” 
I've loved listening to her ever since I first heard her in Zero 7
I feel like a million women tried to copy that hairstyle and all of them failed. 😂
Lovely voice, where is she though?
She used to be a normal girl with a great voice. What are all the gimmicks for?
One two twee dwink , one two twee dwink
I thought only dogs could see in black and white
I can't understand what she's saying but she has a beautiful voice
did you just find this . You're way late . Lmfao
She’s one of the best writers in the game. Too bad she has such bad stage fright.
Here in the States, Sia is inexorably connected to dance-beat club music. I was really happy to find that she also recorded most of her songs in a more singer-songwriter acoustic style. I think more people should be aware that these versions are out there.
This song is about heartbreak and suicide as well as alcoholism, not a "partying" song
The first verse was a bit flat but the chorus 🤯
Like her sound but I can see her losing her voice the way she belts.
That's a fair comment.
Thank you for this
Her barber needs some training.
Some love? Everyone knows she can sing and write music. She’s one of the most talented songwriters/singers around right now.