Sia found inspiration in her darkest moments to create new music.
The Australian singer, 47, revealed in a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 that she went through a period of depression following her divorce from Erik Anders Lang after two years of marriage.
“Well, actually, it’s true that I’ve written a song here and there for the last six, seven years,” the songwriter said while discussing her upcoming album Sensible woman.
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Sia (R) and Maddie Zeigler (C) perform with Labrinth in the Mojave Tent during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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“I got divorced and it really threw me for a loop. It was such a dark time that I was in bed for three years, really, really really depressed. And so I couldn’t do anything for that period of time,” she added.
Sensible woman will mark the Grammy winner’s first album release since 2016 This is acting. Although the album is expected to be released in the spring of 2024, the singer dropped a single from the album called “Gimme Love” on Wednesday.
Speaking about how she managed to push herself to record new music, she said she started by recording “just little bits here and there”.
“And then in the end it turned out that we had enough songs for the album, enough good ones,” she explained. “So I just rely on my management to tell me when we have enough good ones, because I don’t really … I can tell when I think one is particularly good, I mean I can tell, but they tell me when we have 11 or 12 or 13 good enough, really good.”
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Although the singer has been relatively tight-lipped about her post-divorce love life, she married boyfriend Dan Bernardo in an intimate ceremony in Portofino, Italy, in May.
As for how she managed to stay confident while performing, she explained that wearing her famous blonde wig helped her create a “little bubble” for herself.
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“I got sober when I put the wig on my face and then I had the ears and the wig and I’m just like, ‘It’s like I’m in a little bubble with myself.’ But now that I know that’s what’s going on, I think maybe one day I’ll do an open-face show again and have a little fun talking to the audience and being teased and being present because those shows were really fun back in the day before I put on a wig,” she said. – They were very, very fun.
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