SIA - SNOWMAN

SNOWMAN

SIA

SONGWRITERS: SIA KATE ISOBELLE FURLER & GREG KURSTIN

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: EVERYDAY IS CHRISTMAS

LABEL: MONKEY PUZZLE

GENRE: BALLAD

YEAR: 2017

 

              Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (/ˈsiːə/SEE-ə; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer, songwriter, voice actress and director. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album, titled OnlySee, in Australia. She moved to London, England, and provided vocals for the British duo Zero 7. Sia released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, in 2000, and her third studio album, Colour the Small One, in 2004.

            Sia relocated to New York City in 2005 and toured in the United States. Her fourth and fifth studio albums, Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born, were released in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Each was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association and attracted wider notice than her earlier albums. Uncomfortable with her growing fame, Sia took a hiatus from performing, during which she focused on songwriting for other artists, producing successful collaborations "Titanium" (with David Guetta), "Diamonds" (with Rihanna) and "Wild Ones" (with Flo Rida).

                In 2014, Sia broke through as a solo recording artist when her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear, debuted at No 1 in the U.S. Billboard 200 and generated the top-ten single "Chandelier" and a trilogy of music videos co-directed by Sia and starring child dancer Maddie Ziegler. Since then, Sia has usually worn a wig that obscures her face to protect her privacy. Her seventh studio album, This Is Acting (2016), spawned her first Billboard Hot 100 number one single, "Cheap Thrills". The same year, Sia gave her Nostalgic for the Present Tour, which incorporated dancing by Ziegler and others and other performance art elements. Her eighth studio album, Everyday Is Christmas, was released in 2017 and reissued in 2018 with three bonus tracks. In 2018, she collaborated with Labrinth and Diplo in the group LSD, and they released their self-titled debut album in April 2019.

             Sia wrote and directed an upcoming feature film, titled Music. Among the accolades received by Sia are nearly a dozen ARIA Awards, 9 Grammy Award nominations and an MTV Video Music Award.

          "Snowman" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Sia. It was released on 9 November 2017 as the first and only promo single from Sia's eighth studio album and first Christmas album, Everyday Is Christmas. The song became popular in December 2020 following a TikTok challenge

             "Snowman" was written by Sia and frequent collaborator Greg Kurstin, and runs for a length of 2 minutes and 45 seconds. The song is a piano-driven ballad over which Sia's vocals, described as "calm but energetic" by mxdwn, tell a snowman not to cry as he will melt. Slant Magazine described the song as a "clever ode to fleeting romance". Slate named it the best song on Everyday Is Christmas, noting it "[takes] something we associate with winter and [applies] it to a universal theme." 

Don't cry snowman right in front of me

Who will catch your tears

If you can't catch me, darling

If you can't catch me, darling

Don't cry snowman don't leave me this way

A puddle of water

Can't hold me close, baby

Can't hold me close, baby

 

I want you to know that I'm never leaving

'Cause I'll miss the snow

Till death will be freezing

You are my home, my home for a season

So come on let's go

Let's go below zero

And hide from the Sun

I love you forever

And we'll have some fun

Yes let's hit the North Pole and live happily

Please don't cry no tears now

It's Christmas baby

 

My snowman and me

My snowman and me

Baby

 

Don't cry snowman

Don't you fear the Sun

Who'll carry me

Without legs to run, honey

Without legs to run, honey

Don't cry snowman

Don't you shed a tear

Who'll hear my secrets

If you don't have ears, baby

If you don't have ears, baby

 

I want you to know that I'm never leaving

'Cause I'll miss the snow

Till death will be freezing

You are my home, my home for a season

So come on let's go

Let's go below zero

And hide from the Sun

I love you forever

And we'll have some fun

Yes let's hit the North Pole and live happily

Please don't cry no tears now

It's Christmas baby

 

My snowman and me

My snowman and me

Baby.