【专辑简介】
Sia 今年1月29日发布的专辑《 This Is Acting 》豪华版释出,收录了其与 Sean Paul、 Kendrick Lamar、 Alan Walker等人合作的作品。
Reflecting her years as a music industry veteran, Sia Furler took a self-aware, practical approach to her return to the spotlight. She recorded her comeback album, 1000 Forms of Fear, to get out of her publishing contract; its acclaim led to This Is Acting, a collection of songs originally written for — and rejected by — clients such as Adele, Rihanna, and Beyoncé. But as the album title hints, there’s more going on here than recycling. In a way, Furler is acting when she writes songs to fit the images these artists portray, and her own interpretations of them add another layer of theatrical distance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing — she initially shopped “Chandelier” to Rihanna and Beyoncé before keeping it for herself and imbuing it with the unique frailty that made it a smash hit. Sia’s skill at crafting songs full of drama and vulnerability that feel real, no matter how loud they get, is in full force on This Is Acting, particularly its first two tracks. Originally intended for Adele — another master of huge-yet-genuine-sounding songs — “Bird Set Free” and “Alive” are filled with wounded empowerment and vocal acrobatics that sound just as powerful (if less bombastic) coming from Sia. Though she returns to the intimate songwriting of her pre-pop career on “One Million Bullets” — the lone song Furler wrote for herself — many of This Is Acting’s most interesting and successful moments find Sia taking on more unexpected roles. A pair of songs intended for Rihanna let her show off a more lighthearted side: the spare, reggae-tinged pulse of “Cheap Thrills” echoes Major Lazer’s “Lean On” (yet another Rihanna reject), but a backing chorus of what sounds like alien children reinforces that this is a Sia song, while “Reaper” lets her explore a more easygoing version of her seize-the-day anthems. Given that Furler didn’t originally plan to make these songs her own originally, it’s impressive that This Is Acting works as well as it does — its meta-pop is another reminder of how cleverly Sia brings her experiments into the mainstream. [This Is Acting was also released on LP.]
【发行信息】
類型: 流行樂, 音樂, 搖滾, 成人另類
發行日期: 2016年01月29日
℗ 2016 Monkey Puzzle Records, under exclusive license to RCA Records
【文件信息】
01 Bird Set Free.m4a
02 Alive.m4a
03 One Million Bullets.m4a
04 Move Your Body.m4a
05 Unstoppable.m4a
06 Cheap Thrills.m4a
07 Reaper.m4a
08 House on Fire.m4a
09 Footprints.m4a
10 Sweet Design.m4a
11 Broken Glass.m4a
12 Space Between.m4a
13 Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul).m4a
14 The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lama.m4a
15 Confetti.m4a
16 Move Your Body (Alan Walker Remix.m4a
17 Midnight Decisions.m4a
18 Jesus Wept.m4a
19 The Greatest.m4a
Directories: 1, Files: 19, Size: 159,342,016 B
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