Some People Have Real Problems
 | By Sia Hear Music, 2008, Audio CD Customer Rating: 43 reviews Recommend |
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In addition to her successful solo career, Sia has also worked extensively with ZERO 7; She provided the vocals for the hit singles "Destiny" and "Distractions" from their debut album Simple Things, as well as tracks on their subsequent albums, When It Falls and Garden. She also collaborated successfully with MASSIVE ATTACK and WILLIAM ORBIT.
Sia has had huge club hits, including "Drink To Get Drunk" [remixed by DIFFERENT GEAR] and the UK garage remix of "Little Man" by WOOKIE
"Breathe Me," from her album Colour the Small One gained significant attention when it was used in the elaborate final scene of HBO's SIX FEET UNDER.
After a smattering of success surrounding her inclusion in the Six Feet Under series finale with the song "Breathe Me," and collaborations with electronic stars Massive Attack and Zero 7, Sia (Furler) returns with a pop record that's witty and touching, alternately funny and achingly melancholy. Shades of Fiona Apple cross with Joss Stone's blue-eyed soul. Sia shines on a terrifically sung take on the Kinks' (by way of the Pretenders cover) "I Go To Sleep" and her own deeply felt "Lentil." Many of these songs shimmer with a radio-friendly gloss, but the show belongs to this eccentric Australian, who bravely subverts the accessible production through winking and sometimes sinister lyrics. Beck guests on the metaphor-packed "Academia," book-ending lines like "you're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion" with a mournful chorus that strips away the lyrical cleverness to plumb the broken-hearted depths of a ruined relationship. Check your enhanced CD for a truly strange video for the hidden bonus track, "Buttons," in which Sia distorts her face using a wide variety of objects, including scotch tape, fishnet hose, and a condom, to name a few. If this playing with her own image is Sia's warning shot across the bow of a popular music industry obsessed with the visual, it'll make you think twice about what you're seeing, but can't distract from the intoxicating soundscape she delivers. — Ben Heege
- Little Black Sandals
- Lentil
- Day Too Soon
- You Have Been Loved
- The Girl You Lost to Cocaine
- Academia
- I Go to Sleep - Sia, Davies, R.
- Playground
- Death by Chocolate
- Soon We'll Be Found
- Electric Bird
- Beautiful Calm Driving
- Lullaby
Title: Some People Have Real Problems
Sales Rank: 474 in Music
Artist: Sia
Label: Hear Music, 2008-01-08, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Format: Enhanced
Package Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches, 0.3 pounds
- Another great album
- At first I didn't think that this CD was as catchy as her prior album(s). I don't know why I thought that now. After a few more listens, it really caught my ear. It's a little bit different from her previous efforts, more mature sounding maybe, but just as good if not better. I think that because it took a little easing into, it might not reach… More reviews
- A Performance That Was Second To None
- When her and her band's performance was over on the Late Show with David Letterman, I became her newest fan. Her voice is amazing, what soul, but it was her jumping up and down personality that won me over. Usually when I come across a talent even close to hers, I buy everything she has ever song on, immediately(thanks to amazon).… More reviews
- Remarkable
- All the songs in this cd are great. I have no regrets in getting this cd. I think that I will have to buy another one because I play it so much. This is definitely a good buy.… More reviews
- SIA IS AMAZING!!!!
- I am a new Sia fan! After seeing her concert at the Bat Bar...I was smitten!! Her songs are clever, fun, smart and her voice is really amazingly soulful. She is quirky in a likable way!!
I am a writer and I do most if not all of my work listening to music...Sia has such wonderfully emotional words! I will seek this wonderful performers new music… More reviews
- Great album
- I first became familiar with Sia when she collaborated on some music with trip hop duo Zero 7. Zero 7's music rather bored me but I did like Sia's vocals quite a bit enough to get her first album COLOUR THE SMALL ONE. I finally got around to getting her latest cd SOME PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS. I have been listening… More reviews
