Sia – Chandelier

“Chandelier” – Single by Sia from the album 1000 Forms of Fear
Released: March 17, 2014
Recorded: 2013
Studio: Hot Closet Studios
Echo Park
Larrabee Sound
Label: Monkey Puzzle RCA
Songwriters: Sia Furler, Jesse Shatkin
Producers: Greg Kurstin, Jesse Shatkin
Charted No.8 in US and No.6 in UK

The song stemmed from an impromptu jam session between Sia and pop producer Jesse Shatkin. “I usually think, ‘Oh this would work for Rihanna, or this would be a good one for B or Katy,'” Sia said to Ryan Seacrest. “But this time I was like, ‘Uh oh I think I just wrote a full-blown pop song for myself by accident!'”

Sia and Greg Kurstin wrote this very quickly. “‘Chandelier’ took like four minutes to write the chords, then like 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics,” she told NPR. “Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.”

The music video for “Chandelier” was released on 6 May 2014, featuring then-11-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler. In the video, Ziegler wears a medium-length blonde wig matching the one that Sia used to promote the album. Throughout the video, Ziegler performs an interpretive dance in a deserted, dirty apartment “while spinning, kicking, leaping, crawling, falling, twirling and hiding herself behind window drapes”. An alternative one-take version of the clip was released in June 2014. Sia had seen Ziegler on Dance Moms and asked her to appear in the video via Twitter. The video was directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, shot by cinematographer Sebastian Winterø and was choreographed by Ryan Heffington.

“Chandelier” won the ARIA Award for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 2014.The song received nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year and Best Choreography, and ultimately won the latter. It was also nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Best Music Video. The video went viral on YouTube and became the seventh most-watched video on the video-sharing website of 2014.

Chorus:
I’m gonna swing from the chandelier
From the chandelier
I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist
Like it doesn’t exist
I’m gonna fly like a bird through the night
Feel my tears as they dry
I’m gonna swing from the chandelier
From the chandelier

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