Sia in Los Angeles in March 2014.Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty
Siafound inspiration from her darkest moments to create new music.
The Australian singer, 47, revealed in a recentinterview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1that she went through a period of depression following her divorce fromErik Anders Langafter two years of marriage.
“Well, actually, the truth is that I had just been every now and again writing a song here or there for the last six, seven years,” said the songwriter while discussing her forthcoming albumReasonable Woman.
Sia (R) and Maddie Zeigler (C) perform with Labrinth at the Mojave Tent during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.Michael Loccisano/Getty
Michael Loccisano/Getty
“I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop. That was such a dark time that I was in bed for three years, really, really severely depressed. And so I couldn’t really do anything for that period of time,” she added.
Reasonable Womanwill mark the Grammy winner’s first album release since 2016’sThis Is Acting.While the album isexpected to be released in spring 2024, the singer dropped a single from the album titled"Gimme Love"on Wednesday.
“And then, finally, it just turned out we had enough songs to make an album, enough good ones,” she explained. “So I just rely on my management to tell me when we’ve got enough good ones because I don’t really… I can tell when I think one is particularly good, I think I can tell, but they tell me when we’ve got 11 or 12 or 13 enough good ones, real good ones.”
Although the performer has been relatively private about her love life following her divorce, shewed boyfriend Dan Bernad, in an intimate ceremony in Portofino, Italy, in May.
As far as how she’s been able to stay confident while performing, she explained thatwearing her trademark blonde wighas helped her create a “little bubble” for herself.
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“When I got soberis when I put the wig on my face and that’s when I had in-ears and wig and I’m just like, ‘It’s like I’m in a little bubble with myself.’ But now that I know that that’s what’s going on, I think maybe one day I’ll do a show with my face out again and have little fun talking to the audience and being heckled and getting present again because those shows were really fun back in the day before I had the wig on,” she said. “They were really, really fun.”
source: people.com
