Latest Release
- 27 SEPT 2024
- 6 Songs
- Nothing But the Beat Ultimate · 2011
- This Is Acting · 2016
- 1000 Forms of Fear · 2014
- Dusk Till Dawn (Radio Edit) [feat. Sia] - Single · 2017
- This Is Acting · 2015
- 1000 Forms of Fear · 2014
- Everyday Is Christmas (Deluxe) · 2017
- I'm Still Here - Single · 2018
- Wild Ones (feat. Sia) - Single · 2011
- Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul) - Single · 2016
Essential Albums
- Going into her seventh album, Sia Furler wanted to try “an experiment”. She would record self-written tracks already pitched to but rejected by A-listers. “I feel like they’re hits, but nobody wanted them”, she said. She was right. This Is Acting dives headfirst into pop’s waters but its bold and beguiling songs retain their author’s earthy edge. Sia’s cathartic voice is, as usual, the star—“Alive” and “House on Fire” pulverise all before it, big-night-out anthem “Cheap Thrills” is a tonne of fun and “Reaper” (a Kanye West co-write) is the sort of mid-tempo empowerment jam only she can nail so triumphantly.
Artist Playlists
- The Aussie pop star's visual output is as striking as her music.
- The reluctant pop star writes of unfettered joy and passion.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- These musical mavericks and shapeshifters fuel the pop maven.
- “There are things to do. We can actually act.”
About Sia
Sometime around the end of 2010, Sia Furler hit bottom. She was exhausted, numb, self-medicating. She’d had some success, but the trade-off—touring, promotion, life without privacy—felt too steep. She thought about suicide. Then an idea came along: Why put so much of herself on the line when she could just try writing for someone else? Even after coming back to the stage as a solo artist, Furler maintained a degree of playful detachment: The big wigs, the reluctance to show her face. But the music was real, empathetic, even heroic—anthems of vulnerability and self-empowerment that handled huge feelings with a lightness that made it seem like she was dancing slightly above the ground. Pop songs are fantasies, she seemed to say. But they also get us through. Born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1975, Furler started out singing in a local acid-jazz band called Crisp before moving to London, joining the trip-hop group Zero 7 while starting a solo career. Her early albums—off-kilter pop with hints of folk, electronica, and jazz—did fine, but it wasn’t until she started writing for other artists that her career took off. Beyoncé (“Pretty Hurts”), Britney Spears (“Perfume”), Katy Perry (“Double Rainbow“), Rihanna (“Diamonds”): Furler’s writing made for some of the most bright-lined, all-caps pop of the 2010s, while her own tracks (“Chandelier,” “The Greatest,” “Alive,” “Unstoppable”) set new standards for playacting in pop performance, making her—a queer woman whose self-professed higher power is a surfing, Santa Claus-like figure called Whatever Dude—not just a songwriter, but also a kind of oddball role model for anyone who’s ever felt like they didn’t quite fit in. She said a producer once claimed that it wasn’t fair for her to be able to turn out a song in 20 minutes and get the royalty split she did. Maybe so, Furler clapped back—but getting to those 20 minutes took her 15 years.
- HOMETOWN
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- BORN
- 18 December 1975
- GENRE
- Pop