Chandelier Essay

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Chandelier by Sia: The Eccentric Art of Sia Furler French poet Charles Baudelaire once said, “…dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music…Dancing is poetry with arms and legs” (1847). Sia Furler, better known as Sia, is an Australian recording artist and notorious for eccentric music videos and public image. Her 2014 hit single, “Chandelier” comes from the album 1000 Forms of Fear and is the first piece to a video trilogy along with the songs, “Elastic Heart” and “Big Girls Cry”. “Chandelier” easily became one of the best music videos of that year and continues to break records with over 1.12 billion views on YouTube. The electric-pop song was written by Sia and Jesse Shatkin who, in addition, produced the song along with …show more content…

While her sober conscious tells her to stop drowning herself in this habit, an inner demon of addiction is on a quest, manipulating her to “push it down” and “feel the love” (lines 3 and 6). This downward spiral continues into the chorus. The second verse is where the night ends and she is sober as she sings, “sun is up, I’m a mess/gotta get out now, gotta run from this/here comes the shame, here comes the shame” (lines 20-22). She feels shame of her decisions the morning-after but that doesn’t last long as the remaining of the song describes yet another drunken night. In the music video “Chandelier”, the young and talented dancer Maddie Ziegler is the main attraction. Without even an audition, she was specially chosen by Sia who asked Ziegler to appear in the video via Twitter. There are a number of visual elements in the video that catch my attention like the apartment’s lighting and the dancer’s outfit. In the video, Ziegler is seen dancing back and forth between rooms with noticeably different lighting. The contrast is a captivating element because it is another layer of

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