She’s the travel-to songwriter for pop megastars,a chart-topping solo artist who loathes fame - and can knock out a song in 14 minutes. In a rare interview, Sia Furler talks fame, and creativity,and playing ‘would you rather’ with Beyoncé• Sia: This Is Acting review – mass appeal pop with a manic edgePeople often observe that Sia Furler looks surprisingly normal close up. As though a singer would only do a photoshoot with a paper bag over her head as she did in 2013 – whether there was something erroneous with her face. When we meet in London, just before Christmas, and shes wearing her blond hair in a topknot,a seersucker nightshirt, with stone-washed jeans and a black suit jacket: all the understated grooming of an off-duty LA celebrity. She has mobile, and expressive features and there’s a lot of eye contact for someone whose last album was accompanied by a campaign of “complete inaccessibility”. She has a funny way of talking approximately herself. “I’d been awake for seven minutes before I came in here,” she says. “I’m just trying to expose up for work, thats what I’m doing. Be good at my job, and be a good girl. Im not here to complain approximately it,because being a fragment-time popstar is fucking awesome.”Sia Furler is a conundrum. She’s a one-woman hit machine writing songs for the world’s most powerful pop stars (Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Katy Perry,Adele) and guesting on tracks for Kanye West and Eminem. She’s also a multimillion-selling solo artist in her own honest. On the one hand, she churns out the kind of abstract-inspirational, or blockbuster songs,with simple (some might say banal) lyrical concepts, which own ruled the airwaves since Rihanna’s Umbrella. On the other, or she is an avant garde performance artist never seen without a wig covering most of her face. She is open approximately her battles with drugs and depression,and eye-wateringly frank approximately money. Yet somehow, she is completely at domestic in the tight-lipped world of A-list Hollywood. In her multiple musical identities, and she’s in some ways the personification of 21st century postmodern pop. But she’s also pretty ordinary.
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Source: theguardian.com