Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
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Artist: SiaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Music Label: Hear Music
Soundtracks:
- Little Black Sandals
- Lentil
- Day Too Soon
- You Have Been Loved
- The Girl You Lost to Cocaine
- Academia
- I Go to Sleep
- Playground
- Death by Chocolate
- Soon We'll Be Found
- Electric Bird
- Beautiful Calm Driving
- Lullaby
Free Music Notes for Some People Have Real Problems
Free Music Review: Some people have REAL psychedelia
Hit: 5 Stars
Sia's "Some people have REAL problems" aptly sums up the beginning of this year. Thankfully, this album is as comforting as a cup of hot mint cocoa. Aussie diva Sia Furler's new album is a contrast with her more somber "Colour the Small One." She has an American girlfriend,she's got RAINBOWS! UNICORNS! CLOWNS!
"Some people have REAL problems" opens with the optimistic "Little Black Sandals." It's about the escape from an abusive relationship. "Lentil" and "You have been loved" recast romantic cliches with an innovative,soulful electro-pop sound. "The girl you lost to cocaine" takes a cynical,zippy spin on a somber subject (sort of like Colbie Caillat's sappy "Midnight Bottle"-the most peppy song about alcoholism) "Soon we'll be found" is a hopeful anthem. "Electric Bird" is also anthemic;it would be fitting on a television soundtrack. "Beautiful Calm Driving" is soothing trip-hop,a road trip song. Very trippin'. "Death by chocolate" sounds another optimistic note-complete with a backing chorus of the Scientologists Giovanni Ribisi&his daughter Lucia,as well as Jason Lee. Pantera is also on it. The highlights are the nerdy love duet with Beck "Academia",the Eastern-sounding "Playground" and the playful dysfunctional relationship song "Buttons."
"Some people have REAL problems" is Sia's playful US debut of sorts. Its blend of earthiness, mysticism, and soul makes it a winning combination. Sia calls herself Lady Croissant;her music is delicious. Drink it down with some peppy coffee! With chocolate of course...
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In addition to her successful solo career, Sia has also worked extensively with ZERO 7; She provided the vocals for the hit singles "Destiny" and "Distractions" from their debut album Simple Things, as well as tracks on their subsequent albums, When It Falls and Garden. She also collaborated successfully with MASSIVE ATTACK and WILLIAM ORBIT.Sia has had huge club hits, including "Drink To Get Drunk" [remixed by DIFFERENT GEAR] and the UK garage remix of "Little Man" by WOOKIE
"Breathe Me," from her album Colour the Small One gained significant attention when it was used in the elaborate final scene of HBO's SIX FEET UNDER.
After a smattering of success surrounding her inclusion in the Six Feet Under series finale with the song "Breathe Me," and collaborations with electronic stars Massive Attack and Zero 7, Sia (Furler) returns with a pop record that's witty and touching, alternately funny and achingly melancholy. Shades of Fiona Apple cross with Joss Stone's blue-eyed soul. Sia shines on a terrifically sung take on the Kinks' (by way of the Pretenders cover) "I Go To Sleep" and her own deeply felt "Lentil." Many of these songs shimmer with a radio-friendly gloss, but the show belongs to this eccentric Australian, who bravely subverts the accessible production through winking and sometimes sinister lyrics. Beck guests on the metaphor-packed "Academia," book-ending lines like "you're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion" with a mournful chorus that strips away the lyrical cleverness to plumb the broken-hearted depths of a ruined relationship. Check your enhanced CD for a truly strange video for the hidden bonus track, "Buttons," in which Sia distorts her face using a wide variety of objects, including scotch tape, fishnet hose, and a condom, to name a few. If this playing with her own image is Sia's warning shot across the bow of a popular music industry obsessed with the visual, it'll make you think twice about what you're seeing, but can't distract from the intoxicating soundscape she delivers. --Ben Heege
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