Can I just totally not even do a real post but a shout out to my girl Sia (and by my girl, I mean we were both born in Australia, duh).Her CD Some People Have Real Problems was on such constant rotation in my car that I was hearing her songs as I fell asleep. Which is kind of awesome as so many of them are dreamy mystical songs you could easily fall asleep to. But on the other hand as you are well aware, when you are trying to get to sleep is the absolute worst time to get a song stuck in your head.
Some of my faves are of course Buttons which has rocketed onto my top ten list of greatest songs ever, and is also the second most watched youtube video ever.
Another is Breathe Me (which is not on the SPHRP album) which is truly haunting and was the perfect backdrop for one of the greatest series ending episodes in Six Feet Under.
It also was apparently licensed to Coles Supermarkets in Australia and was used during the Beijing Olympics coverage.
It is terrible that she had to move to the UK before she achieved any kind of commerical success, and then Australia just jumped on the bandwagon last year and awarded her an ARIA (Australian record industry award). Although I guess I'm a hypocrite as I have also just jumped on the bandwagon when I got her CD for Christmas even though it was released in January 2008.
She comes across as down to earth in interviews: "I've always been open about it. People are making a fuss about it because I'm getting successful." [on her bisexuality] she also writes her own songs. Anyone who does a cover of Britney Spear's Gimme More gets a tick in my book.