Sia - This Is Acting: Deluxe Edition (2016) {Japan}

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Artist: Sia
Title: This Is Acting: Deluxe Edition
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: RCA / Sony Music Labels Inc. #SICP 5161
Genre: Indie Pop, Dance-Pop
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 01:14:20
Total Size: 634 / 278 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

This Is Acting is the seventh studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Sia. It was released on 29 January 2016 by Inertia, Monkey Puzzle and RCA. The album was preceded by the release of the lead single, "Alive" on 24 September 2015. The album is mainly an electropop album with soul influences. The album is composed of songs written by Sia that were rejected by other artists, such as Adele and Rihanna. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the bold production and Sia’s vocals. However, it received criticisms for the fact that the songs were not very personal and the messages of the songs could be taken in different ways.

Reflecting her years as a music industry veteran, Sia Furler took a self-aware, practical approach to her return to the spotlight. She recorded her comeback album, 1000 Forms of Fear, to get out of her publishing contract; its acclaim led to This Is Acting, a collection of songs originally written for – and rejected by – clients such as Adele, Rihanna, and Beyoncé. As the album title hints, there's more going on here than just recycling. In a way, Furler is acting when she writes songs to fit the images these artists portray, and her own interpretations of them add another layer of theatrical distance. This isn't necessarily a bad thing – she initially shopped "Chandelier" to Rihanna and Beyoncé before keeping it for herself and imbuing it with the unique frailty that made it a smash hit. Sia's skill at crafting songs full of drama and vulnerability that feel real, no matter how loud they get, is in full force on This Is Acting, particularly its first two tracks. Originally intended for Adele – another master of huge-yet-genuine-sounding songs – "Bird Set Free" and "Alive" are filled with wounded empowerment and vocal acrobatics that sound just as powerful (if less bombastic) coming from Sia. Elsewhere, Furler's songwriting is more generic, for better and worse: "Unstoppable" boasts the confidence of a hit single that could belong to any number of divas, but even a presence as compelling as Sia can't elevate "Broken Glass" or the Beyoncé reject "Footprints" above cookie-cutter balladry. Though she returns to the intimate songwriting of her pre-pop career on "One Million Bullets" – the lone song Furler wrote for herself – many of This Is Acting's most interesting and successful moments happen when Sia takes on more unexpected roles. A pair of songs intended for Rihanna let her show off a more lighthearted side: The spare, reggae-tinged pulse of "Cheap Thrills" echoes Major Lazer's "Lean On" (yet another song Rihanna rejected), but a backing chorus of what sounds like alien children reinforces that this is a Sia song, while "Reaper" lets her explore a more easygoing version of her seize-the-day anthems. Given that Furler didn't originally plan to make these songs her own, it's impressive that This Is Acting works as well as it does – only the wannabe banger "Move Your Body" and "Sweet Design"'s flashy, hard-hitting R&B are truly unconvincing. For the most part, however, This Is Acting's meta-pop is another example of how cleverly Sia brings her her experiments into the mainstream.

~ Heather Phares, All Music

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Track List:

01. Bird Set Free [4:13]
02. Alive [4:23]
03. One Million Bullets [4:12]
04. Move Your Body [4:07]
05. Unstoppable [3:38]
06. Cheap Thrills [3:31]
07. Reaper [3:40]
08. House on Fire [4:01]
09. Footprints [3:13]
10. Sweet Design [2:26]
11. Broken Glass [4:25]
12. Space Between [4:48]
13. Cheap Thrills [3:44]
14. The Greatest [3:30]
15. Confetti [4:06]
16. Move Your Body [Alan Walker Remix] [3:38]
17. Midnight Decisions [3:43]
18. Jesus Wept [5:29]
19. The Greatest [3:31]

Sia - This Is Acting: Deluxe Edition (2016) {Japan}

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