As someone paying back my student loans who relied on writing off the interest, it will definitely be immediately awful for me :(

I was ready to say ‘Sia: This is Acting’ but a quick Google search tells me it’s been out since early 2016. I think my brain just scrambled that because it couldn’t comprehend enjoying ANYTHING that happened in 2016.

Whoah! I mean, harassment insinuations aside, that’s a cool logo - for a cartoon supervillain lair!

That ‘Bus Driver’ song is sooo good. I understand why it was hard to work into the show, but I still wish there was a studio-produced version of it somewhere.

“Is the same mental gymnastics people do when they say they’re not racist because they aren’t donning KKK hoods and burning crosses”

I’ve discovered some good music because of first hearing about it on Jezebel. That’s how I first learned about both ‘Florence + the Machine’ and ‘Cocorosie.’

That’s good to hear. I’m always a little bummed when I hear that an artist I like is a dick.

On South Park, she did the fake ‘Lorde’ song:

I mean, sometimes I kind of get pissy when someone’s all like “I don’t know who that is”, but then I usually launch into “Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Now I can spend fifteen comments excitedly telling you all about a thing I love!”

Her current music is ALSO depressing, it just has cheerier beats. My partner and I refer to it as ‘Manic Defense’ music. I am SO looking forward to what I anticipate will be both the catchiest and bleakest Christmas album ever written coming out in a couple weeks.

I mean, essentially she does pop, but it’s kind of slightly artsy pop, and her work definitely has a ‘Art Student / Theater Kid’ vibe to it (which sounds like a neg, but I’m really all about it). I mean, I don’t know what kind of music you USUALLY like, so I can’t say if it would be your jam.

Like, she worked on ‘Carol Brown’ which is the BEST Flight of the Conchords song in a catalog of great songs:

You may not know her own albums, but chances are you’ve heard something she’s had a hand in. Before her personal music totally blew up, she was a powerhouse that worked behind-the-scenes as a songwriter and session musician for other people. She wrote a lot of stuff for super famous people like Christina Aguilera and…

I know, right? I’m darkly amused that she managed to do this while still being so ‘Sia’ about it.

The world never fails to display all the disgusting ways that society dehumanizes women.

I was thinking the same thing; this would be a boss move from absolutely anyone, but coming from someone who notoriously avoids showing her face, performs with her back to the audience and casts other people to be in her videos? This *had* to be particularly rough on her, and she reacted like an unflinching badass.

Having spent my twenties working in music stores in the 90's, I actually use this as an example of the peculiarity of this fixation of the coal industry. Brick & Mortar retail has taken a nosedive in the past fifteen years. It employed MILLIONS more people than the coal industry and was representative of countless…

My partner & I were Brak and Zorak. we won third prize this weekend in the costume contest!

I’m glad you brought this up, because I actually used a similar example elsewhere to kinda back up *my* point. The fact that you used this as an example shows that we, as a society, already know that things like sweatshops or unpaid labor are immoral. It would be very difficult to live in such a way that doesn’t…

“There’s a distinction that ol’ John misses with his argument. When people suggest that you can’t use modern values to judge the actions of people from hundreds of years ago”