Pop singer-songwriter Sia performs with her signature blonde hair over her eyes and nose nearly every time she performs. Why?
“If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous,” Sia wrote in an op-ed for Billboard in October 2013. “Imagine the stereotypical highly opinionated, completely uninformed mother-in-law character and apply it to every teenager with a computer in the entire world. Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities. Then, picture that creature, that force, criticizing you for an hour straight once a day, every day, day after day.”
Sia is practically a genius and incredibly talented. She's able to make music without being critiqued for her facial appearance.
“I don’t want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet. I’ve been writing pop songs for pop stars now for a couple of years, and I’ve become friends with them and see what their life is like and that’s not something I want,” Sia said in June 2014.
The best part is many people are respecting and seeing Sia's reason for her reason of covering her face. People realize the cameras and the viewers are intended to watch the dancer and listen to the music, not stare at her standing and singing.
Sure there are some people who say: "If you dont want fame then get out of the business!" and "Sia I love your music and if you don’t want to show your face I think I’ll respect that. It would be nice seeing your face though."
Her soon-to-be-released album, "This Is Acting" (due Jan. 29, 2016), is something we should all be looking forward to because the songs were originally written to be sung by other A-list artists, including Adele and Beyoncé. Sia has been successfully writing for music's biggest artists since she crossed over to writing pop music almost five years ago.
"I feel like they're hits, but nobody wanted them," she said in an interview with the Rolling Stone. "So I thought, 'Let's see, as an experiment, if I'm right.'"
