Of the darker songs on Acting, it’s the one you want on repeat. This sense of hazard recalls her last album, 1000 Forms of Fear, and the one song here that Sia has said she wrote for herself, “One Million Bullets,” is also reminiscent of that record’s moods. But it’s a bloodier, more ragged performance than Adele would chance - when Sia hits the high notes, her voice twists like a metal singer’s. Likewise, Acting‘s first single, “Alive,” was co-written with the British diva and has a similar outsize-chorus catharsis. More meta yet, the album opens with “Bird Set Free,” which comes across as a recap of Sia’s career and a manifesto for her self-realization as a songwriter: “I found myself in my melodies … I’ll shout it out like a bird set free.” Pitch Perfect 2 and Rihanna reportedly turned it down Adele recorded it but ultimately left it and other offerings by Sia off her 25 album.Īlong with several other Acting tracks, “Bird” was produced by Greg Kurstin, who also worked on “Hello” and other 25 tunes it’s underscored by a rolling piano line that would have been at home there. Sia’s openness about the songs’ background signals either great confidence that they will overcome that stigma or a cynical assumption that our fascination with celebrity interplay is the most powerful attractor of all. The risk is that people will infer that this is the reject pile. Part of the pleasure of This Is Acting, then, comes from the game of matching songs to their could-have-been singers. Sia Talks Meeting With Rihanna for Possible ‘Anti’ Songs
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