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Australian singer-songwriter Sia has garnered a reputation over the past two decades for her own work as an artist as well as songs she’s written for others. She’s also had reached some personal milestones in recent years. She adopted two boys in 2019 and completed her family in 2023 when she got married in Italy. In 2021, she branched into the film world with her directorial debut Music, complete with an accompanying album. Now, the famously wigged wonder is back in her comfort zone with her tenth studio album Reasonable Woman.
To help bring the project to life, Sia recruited an all-star lineup of artists to sing alongside her, from Chaka Khan on “Immortal Queen” and Kylie Minogue on lead single “Dance Alone” to Tierra Whack on “Champion” and Labrinth on “Incredible.” She even had Paris Hilton along for the ride on “Fame Won’t Love You” as a taste of Sia’s work as executive producer on Hilton’s long-awaited sophomore album due out next month.
When reflecting on her journey to creating the album in a 2023 interview with Apple Music, Sia explained that it came together over a period of several years as she collected songs while going through a hard time.
"The truth is that I had just been, every now and again, writing a song here or there for the last six, seven years," she said. "I got divorced [in 2016] 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. I couldn't really do anything for that period of time."
"[I wrote] just little bits and pieces here and there, but it was really hard to get me out of bed," she continued. "And then finally it just turned out we had enough songs to make an album, enough good ones."
As for how motherhood has affected her both in and out of the studio, she gushed to Billboard last month that it’s turned her life around in every way since her darkest point immediately prior to welcoming her children.
“It’s better than any drug. It’s better than anyone laughing at my jokes. It’s better than anyone clapping at my singing. It’s better than getting an award. It’s better than singing with someone I’ve admired for a million years. It’s better than all of that,” she said. “It’s enriching.”
