BEHIND

LEWIS CAPALDI

SONGWRITERS: FRAMPTON ANDREW MARCUS & CAPALDI LEWIS MARC

COUNTRY: SCOTTLAND

ALBUM: DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT

LABEL: VERTIGO RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2019

 

         Lewis Marc Capaldi (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. In March 2019, his single "Someone You Loved" topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks, and in November 2019, it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was nominated at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and won the 2020 Brit Award for Song of the Year. Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist.

         On 17 May 2019, he released his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, which remained at the top of the UK Albums Chart for six weeks. It later went on to become the best selling album of 2019 and 2020 in the UK, and "Someone You Loved" was the best selling single of 2019 in the UK. In May 2020, it was announced that Capaldi's song "Someone You Loved" had become the longest-running top 10 UK single of all time by a British artist.

         Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent is the debut album by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. It was released on 17 May 2019 through Vertigo Records in Europe and Capitol Records in the United States, and distributed globally by Universal Music. It includes the top 10 single "Grace", the UK and US number one single "Someone You Loved" and the album's lead single "Hold Me While You Wait", among several songs previously included on Capaldi's 2018 Eps Bloom and Breach. Capaldi went on a world tour in support of the record in May 2019, and finished the tour in October 2019.  It peaked at number one in the UK and Ireland, becoming the fastest-selling album of the year and also outselling all of the top 10 combined in both countries. It was certified gold in the UK a week after its release. The album was the best selling album in the UK in 2019 and 2020, with "Someone You Loved" being the best selling single of 2019 in the UK.

I don't know how we got to where we are

So far removed I don't know where to start

'Cause I've been away for far too long

But I implore you please hold on, I beg you please hold on

 

Love don't come easy to us

And it's killing me to hang on

And hope it's enough

 

So I was just wondering

Could you tell me is it all a waste of time?

Are you leaving my love behind?

Baby say the word and let me know

You gotta give me something

I swear that I won't try to change your mind

If you're leaving my love behind

Baby say the word and let me go

 

We used to wait up and talk for hours on end

And it's got me thinking that lately something's changed

'Cause I've been feeling you leaving

Cracks in conversations way too long

I'm barely holding on

 

Love don't come easy to us

And it's killing me to hang on

And hope it's enough

 

So I was just wondering

Could you tell me is it all a waste of time?

Are you leaving my love behind?

Baby say the word and let me know

You gotta give me something

I swear that I won't try to change your mind

If you're leaving my love behind

Baby say the word and let me go

 

Just let me go

Let me go-oh-oh-oh

Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh

Just let me go

Just let me go-oh-oh-oh

Baby say the word and let me go

 

'Cause I was just wondering

Could you tell me is it all a waste of time?

Are you leaving my love behind?

Baby say the word and let me know

You gotta give me something

I swear that I won't try to change your mind

If you're leaving my love behind

Baby say the word and let me go.

 

Just let me go

Just let me go

Baby say the word and let me go.

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