Yes: Human People, “Jenny” - If you’re a sucker for power pop-punk that tends to reject the confines of either guitar genre and places melody above all, Brooklyn’s Human People are for you. “Jenny” is their latest, and it’s hard for me to think of a more righteous lyric this year than: “Don’t touch me/I could crush…
Sia, husky-voiced pop hit maker and notable wig-wearer, doesn’t really listen to that much music.
I don’t know yet, ask me later: Celine Dion “Ashes” — During one of our rare warm nights last month, someone drove by my Bushwick apartment blasting Celine Dion’s “A New Day,” and I thought, “Hmmm, jam.” I have loved it ever since, after shunning it for more than 15 years. My point is that sometimes Celine will sneak…
My colleague Clover Hope and I thought it might be fun to check out this year’s crop of new Christmas albums, which is sort of like thinking a root canal might be pleasurable. Is optimism a truly positive thing if it so often leads to pain and disappointment? No matter: Leave wisdom for the three wise men.
Last night, after Sia says she became aware that someone was trying to sell naked photos of her, she decided to come right out and release one herself.
It became apparent that things were definitely over between Selena Gomez and the Weeknd (né Abel Tesfaye) after the former was seen attending church with Justin Bieber on Sunday. At first, the Weeknd was like “this is fine, what deviant undertakings can possible occur in the House of God,” but apparently he’s since…
Y: There’s been a crop of young rappers recently, like Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Peep, who have been drawing on pop punk and emo for inspiration. And now ILoveMakonnen (you might remember him for making Tuesday the best night to go to the club) and Rae Sremmurd (our own Black Beatles) straight up sound like they should be…
If you think about it, Sia is kind of like Santa Claus. She’s a mysterious figure who comes out only to brings gifts to struggling pop stars in the form of warbled songs about diamonds and club nights. And her elves, sprightly dancers in nude leotards, do all the work for her, dancing on stage while she chills in the…
I can understand cultish fashion brands and why people get behind them—Céline, Vetements, Wang, even Jeremy Scott—but increasingly it seems to me the Olivier Rousteing Balmain epoch does not exist without the Kardashians. They continue promoting his work, he continues dressing them like 21st Century Carringtons, in…
My Little Pony: The Movie will be released in October 2017, and Sia the Faceless Pop Star has been cast as the pony Songbird Serenade. You can tell it’s Sia because her face is obscured by voluminous, bi-colored bangs and because her bow is big enough to act as a flotation device in the event of a Smooze onslaught.
In today’s Tweet Beat, Sia needs a favor, Zac Efron says goodbye and Lin-Manuel Miranda is out.
Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.
Following the release of songs like “Real Friends” and “No More Parties in LA,” Kanye West, according to Kanye West, has completed “the best album of all time.” Do you believe him? You want to, right?
In today’s Tweet Beat, Bette Midler does not agree with Donald Trump, Jason Derulo tweets a totally normal tweet and Sia is a big Katy Perry fan.
Sia dropped her latest track, “One Million Bullets,” early on YouTube. The new song is part of a preview of her forthcoming album, This Is Acting, set for release on January 29. This is the third song she’s released from the album; previous singles include “Alive,” and “Bird Set Free.” The new track sounds like every…
“Alive,” the inaugural single off Sia’s forthcoming album This Is Acting was released over a month ago, but its accompanying video only dropped today. Once again, Sia is absent, instead featuring a bewigged and bite-sized doppelgänger: Mahiro Takano.
Y: In the video for “On My Mind,” Ellie Goulding sits on a bed and stares out, chillingly, bottling her own frustrations while her man rages in a hotel. What follows is a revenge fantasy that involves her and a friend riding through a casino on horses and later duct taping the guy. “You don’t mess with love” is the…
If you’ve wanted to know more about the enigma known as Sia, you’ll be pleased to hear that a documentary about the singer’s life is now underway. Director Erik Anders Lang, Sia’s husband, has partnered with producer Ryland Aldrich to form a new production company called Pictures. The Untitled Sia Documentary Project …
Science says that 98 percent of people who listen to any given FKA twigs song will then immediately wonder whether she’s avoiding melodies on purpose, or what? Twigs put out a near-perfect album, and is acute, ingenious and dead-on with her aesthetic and production—but aside from a few licks in “Two Weeks,” her…
Maddie Ziegler, the 12-year-old Dance Moms star and performer whose talents and propensity with wigs have made her a muse to the pop musician Sia, is now taking her skills to film for the first time—in a role developed, of course, by the pop musician Sia.
