I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Australian singer Sia for some time now. I love her because her voice is hauntingly beautiful and she conveys emotion that can throw your heart against a wall. I hate her because just about everything else she does outside of singing reminds me of an awkward and slightly deranged six-year-old child.
Actually, that’s not entirely fair. When posted up beside her at the Bird & the Bee show a few months ago, I found her oddly entertaining and inspiring – a lost refugee of Neverland bouncing up and down in carefree glee. Then again, when she appeared on Nic Harcourt’s KCRW program in Jan. 2006, she was so nervous she resorted to unimaginably dirty and inappropriate schoolyard humor, which resulted in Nic uncharacteristically pleading with her to sing, please, but to not speak any further. (You can hear the 40 min. set – and his begging her to shut up – here.)
So, I guess it’s really no surprise that the Zero 7 contributor and purveyor of such fine solo offerings as “Breathe Me”, the song that sent off the Six Feet Under series, would release the great first single from her new LP via a video that is simply shockingly hideous and disturbing.
I present you the ever-infuriating Sia Furler with her new single “Buttons”. She should have called it “Please Listen to My Music But Don’t Look at Me”, but whatever…
Since Daft Punk is such a popular subject around here these days, I figured I’d have to post this at some point or another. Sure, he’s about as easy to hate as Barry Bonds, but once in a while, Kanye does do it right. It doesn’t hurt, of course, that he has the producing genius of Jon Brion behind him. Anyway, here’s the Hype Williams-directed vid for his new single “Stronger”, which takes the hip-hop groove and infuses in the deep flavor of robot:
Finally, my guilty pleasure of the summer. I just can’t get away from this song no matter how hard I try. The hook is sick. The beat makes me jealous. And, damn, does she know how to move it…
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