ELASTIC HEART

SIA

SONGWRITERS: SAI FÜRLER; THOMAS WESLEY PENTZ; ABEL TESFAYE & ANDREW SWANSON

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: THE HUNGER GAMES

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2013

 

         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 and provided vocals for the British duo Zero 7. Sia released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, in 2001, and her third, Colour the Small One, in 2004.

          Sia moved to New York City in 2005 and toured 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 and focused on songwriting for other artists, producing successful collaborations "Titanium" (with David Guetta), "Diamonds" (with Rihanna) and "Wild Ones" (with FloRida).

           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 began 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 a feature film, titled Music, which was released in early 2021 alongside an album, Music – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture. Among the accolades received by Sia are nearly a dozen ARIA Awards, 9 Grammy Award nominations and an MTV Video Music Award.

               "Elastic Heart" is a song by Australian singer Sia, featuring Canadian singer the Weeknd and US record producer Diplo, taken from the soundtrack for the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Andrew Swanson assisted the artists in writing the song, with production handled by Diplo and US producer Greg Kurstin. It was released on 1 October 2013 as a single from Catching Fire by RCA, Republic and Lionsgate. "Elastic Heart" peaked at number 7 on the singles chart of New Zealand and was certified gold by the Recorded Music NZ. It also appeared on the charts of Australia, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

          In 2014, Sia re-recorded a solo version of "Elastic Heart" for her sixth studio álbum 1000 Forms of Fear. The solo version was released in 2015 as a single from the album and was accompanied by a controversial music video that features US actor Shia LaBeouf and dancer Maddie Ziegler. The clip was the eighth most viewed YouTube music video in 2015, while the single peaked within the top 10 in Australia and the United Kingdom, and the top 20 in the United States.

And another one bites the dust

Oh, why can I not conquer love?

And I might have thought that we were one

Wanted to fight this war without weapons

 

And I wanted it, I wanted it bad

But there were so many red flags

Now another one bites the dust

Yeah, let's be clear I'll trust no one

 

You did not break me

I'm still fighting for peace

 

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

I may snap and I move fast

But you won't see me fall apart

Cos I've got an elastic heart

 

I've got an elastic heart

Yeah, I've got an elastic heart

 

And I will stay up through the night

Let's be clear won't close my eyes

And I know that I can survive

I'll walk through fire to save my life

 

And I want it, I want my life so bad

I'm doing everything I can

Then another one bites the dust

It's hard to lose a chosen one

 

You did not break me

I'm still fighting for peace

 

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

I may snap and I move fast

But you won't see me fall apart

Cos I've got an elastic heart

 

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

I may snap and I move fast

But you won't see me fall apart

Cos I've got an elastic heart

 

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

I may snap and I move fast

But you won't see me fall apart

 

Cos I've got an elastic heart

I've got an elastic heart.

TO THE MOON & BACK

SAVAGE GARDEN

SONGWRITERS: DANIEL JONES & DARREN HAYES

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: SAVAGE GARDEN

LABEL: WARNER MUSIC

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1997

 

       Savage Garden were an Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, the duo achieved international success in the mid 1990s and early 2000s with the Nº 1 hit singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", "The Animal Song" and "I Knew I Loved You".

         The band's two studio albums, Savage Garden and Affirmation, reached Nº 1 in Australia and peaked in the top ten in both the United Kingdom and United States. These albums sold 23 million copies worldwide. The group won a record number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for their debut album and its related singles. They disbanded in the end of 2001, and Hayes continued as a solo artist.

         "To the Moon and Back" is a song by Australian pop duo Savage Garden. It was released in Australia on 4 November 1996 as the second single from their self-titled 1997 album. It was the follow up to their hit "I Want You". It won the 1997 ARIA Music Award for Song of the Year. The song became a Top 3 hit on the UK Singles Chart, and a Top 25 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, and was also the band's first number one in their native country.

She's taking her time making up the reasons

To justify all the hurt inside

Guess she knows from the smiles and the look in their eyes

Everyone's got a theory about the bitter one

They're saying

Mama never loved her much

And daddy never keeps in touch

That's why she shies away from human affection

But somewhere in a private place

She packs her bags for outer space

And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot

To come (and she'll say to him)

She's saying

 

I would fly you to the moon and back

If you'll be if you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world where

We belong

So would you be my baby

Ooh-ooh

 

She can't remember a time

When she felt needed

If love was red then she was colour-blind

All her friends they've been tried for treason

And crimes that were never defined

She's saying

Love is like a barren place

And reaching out for human faith is

Is like a journey I just don't have a map for

So baby gonna take a dive and push the shift to overdrive

Send a signal that she's hanging all her hopes on the stars

(What a pleasant dream) just saying

 

I would fly you to the moon and back

If you'll be if you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world where

We belong

So would you be my baby

Ooh-ooh

 

I would fly you to the moon and back

If you'll be if you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world where

We belong

So would you be my baby

Ooh-ooh

 

Mamma never loved her much

And daddy never keeps in touch

That's why she shies away from human affection

But somewhere in a private place

She packs her bags for outer space

And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot

To come (and she'll say to him)

She's saying

 

I would fly you to the moon and back

If you'll be if you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world where

We belong

So would you be my baby

Ooh-ooh

 

I would fly you to the moon and back

If you'll be if you'll be my baby

Got a ticket for a world where

We belong

So would you be my baby

Ooh-ooh.

 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

KYLIE MINOGUE

SONGWRITERS: ASH HOWES; JULIAN GALLAGHER; KYLIE MONOGUE; MARTIN HARRINGTON & RICHARD BIFF STANNARD

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: FEVER

LABEL: FESTIVAL MUSHROOM

GENRE: DANCE-POP

YEAR: 2002

 

         Kylie Ann Minogue (/mɪˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968), also known mononymously as Kylie, is an Australian singer and actress. Minogue is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinventing herself in music and fashion, for which she is referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop" and a style icon. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards and 17 ARIA Music Awards.

      Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, playing tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson. She gained prominence as a recording artist in the late 1980s and released four bubblegum and dance-pop-influenced studio albums produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. By the early 1990s, she had amassed several top ten singles in the UK and Australia, including "I Should Be So Lucky", "The Loco-Motion", "Hand on Your Heart", and "Better the Devil You Know". Taking more creative control over her music, Minogue signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released Kylie Minogue(1994) and Impossible Princess(1997), both of which received positive reviews. She returned to mainstream dance-oriented music with 2000's Light Years, including the number-one hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". The follow-up, Fever(2001), was an international breakthrough for Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date. Two of its singles, "Love at First Sight" and "In Your Eyes", became hits, but its lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" became one of the most successful singles of the 2000s, selling over five million units.

       Minogue continued reinventing her image and experimenting with a range of genres on her subsequent albums, which spawned successful singles such as "Slow", "2 Hearts", "All the Lovers", "Santa Baby", "Timebomb" and "Dancing". With her 2020 album Disco, she became the first female artist to have a chart-topping album in the UK for five consecutive decades. Minogue made her film debut in The Delinquents(1989) and portrayed Cammy in Street Fighter(1994). She has also appeared in the films Moulin Rouge!(2001), Jack & Diane, Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas (2015). In 2014, she appeared as a judge on the third series of The Voice UK and The Voice Australia. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children's books, fashion, and charitable work.

      "Love at First Sight" is a song by Australian singer Kylie Minogue from her eighth studio album Fever(2001). It was written by Minogue, Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, Ash Howes and Martin Harrington, and produced by Stannard and Gallagher. It is unrelated to the song "Love at First Sight" from Minogue's debut studio álbum Kylie(1988). "Love at First Sight" is a dance-pop and nu-disco song which, lyrically, describes the singer falling and believing in love at first sight. It was released as the third, and second in North America, single from Fever on 3 June 2002.

         "Love at First Sight" received generally positive reviews from music critics; majority of the critics commended the song's commercial appeal and composition. Minor criticism was towards the production similarities of Minogue's previous singles from Fever. "Love at First Sight" was a commercial success worldwide. In her native Australia, it peaked at number three on the ARIA Singles Chart, and in the United Kingdom, it debuted and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also charted within the top-ten in countries including Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Spain and New Zealand. In the United States, it peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Dance Club Songs chart.

           The accompanying music video for "Love at First Sight" was directed by Johan Renck and features Minogue and her backup dancers in a futuristic maze, all shot in single take motion. "Love at First Sight" was first performed on her KylieFever2002 tour and has featured on all her tours with the exception of the Anti Tour(2012). The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording during the 2003 ceremony, becoming Minogue's first Grammy nomination.

Thought that I was going crazy

Just havin' one those days, yeah

Didn't know what to do

Then there was you

And everything went from wrong to right

And the stars came out to fill up the sky

The music you were playin' really blew my mind

It was love at first sight

'Cause baby when I heard you

For the first time I knew

We were meant to be as one

I was tired of running out of luck

Thinkin' 'bout giving up, yeah

Didn't know what to do

Then there was you

And everything went from wrong to right

And the stars came out to fill up the sky

The music you were playin' really blew my mind

It was love at first sight

'Cause baby when I heard you

(When I heard)

For the first time I knew

We were meant to be as one

(To be as one)

'Cause baby when I heard you

For the first time I knew

We were meant to be as one

Everythin' went from wrong to right

And the stars came out and filled up the sky

(Up the sky)

The music you were playin' really blew my mind

It was love at first sight

(Love)

Love at first sight

Love at first sight

Love

Ooh, it was love, it was love at first sight

'Cause baby when I heard you

(When I heard)

For the first time I knew

We were meant to be as one

(To be as one)

'Cause baby when I heard you

(When I heard)

For the first time I knew

We were meant to be as one

It was love, it was love, it was love, it was love

Oohh, it was love, it was love, it was love, it was love

Oohh, it was love, it was love, it was love, it was love

BY YOUR SIDE

SADE ADU

SONGWRITERS: ANDREW HALE; PAUL S. DENMAN; SADE ADU & START MATTHEWMAN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LOVERS ROCK

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2000

 

       Sade(/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/shah-DAY) are an English band, formed in London in 1982 and named after their lead singer, Sade Adu. Three of their members were originally from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Their music features elements of soul, quiet storm, smooth jazz and sophisti-pop. All of their albums, including compilations and a live album, have charted in the US Top Ten.

        The band's debut studio album, Diamond Life(1984), reached number two on the UK Album Chart, selling over 1.2 million copies and won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985. The album was also a hit internationally, reaching number one in several countries and the top ten in the United States, where it has sold four million copies to date. In late 1985, the band released their second studio effort Promise, which peaked at number one in both the United Kingdom and the US.

           It was certified double platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986, Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Their fifth studio album, Lovers Rock(2000), won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Their sixth studio album, Soldier of Love(2010), peaked at number four in the UK and number one in the US. In 2011, the band won their fourth Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

         Sade's US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and have sold more than 75 million records worldwide to date. The band were ranked at No. 50 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"

         "By Your Side" is a song by English band Sade from their fifth studio album, Lovers Rock(2000). Written by Sade, and produced by Sade and Mike Pela, it was released as the album's lead single in the United States on 3 October 2000 and in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2000. The track was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2001. The music video for this single was directed by Sophie Muller. In 2002, the song was listed as the 48th greatest love song of all time by VH1.

You think I'd leave your side, baby?

You know me better than that

You think I'd leave you down

When you're down on your knees?

I wouldn't do that

I'll tell you you're right when you want

And if only you could see into me

 

Oh, when you're cold

I'll be there

Hold you tight to me

 

When you're on the outside, baby

And you can't get in

I will show you

You're so much better than you know

When you're lost and you're alone

And you can't get back again

I will find you

Darling, and I will bring you home

And if you want to cry

I am here to dry your eyes

And in no time, you'll be fine

 

You think I'd leave your side, baby?

You know me better than that

You think I'd leave you down

When you're down on your knees?

I wouldn't do that

I'll tell you you're right when you're wrong

And if only you could see into me

 

Oh, when you're cold

I'll be there

Hold you tight to me

Oh, when you're low

I'll be there

By your side, baby

Oh, when you're cold

I'll be there

Hold you tight to me

Oh, when you're low

I'll be there

By your side, baby.