Watch Sia Explain The Meaning Of ‘Elastic Heart’ With Bananas Over Her Face
We know it's distracting, just power through.
With the initial shock of seeing Shia LaBeouf cage-fight a child and the ensuing controversy about its possible connotations to pedophilia now thoroughly subsided, I think we’re all ready to just appreciate Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’ for what it is: a really beautiful music video.
Today, to give you a better insight into the artistic process (read: a faint idea of WHAT IT ALL MEANS), Sia and her creative team have made a behind-the-scenes clip for US dance network DanceOn. Starring the Australian singer herself, as well as director Daniel Askill and Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf, the clip tells us that ‘Elastic Heart’ is in fact part of a trilogy with a loose narrative about Sia’s inner psyche.
As the first video was of course ‘Chandelier’ featuring the phenomenal solo dance work of 12-year-old Maddy Ziegler, this means we can expect one more clip to finish it all off. We have our fingers crossed that it will still include Shia LaBeouf.
We should also probably acknowledge the fact that Sia has bananas over her face. It’s fairly hard to miss and let’s be honest, it’s also the most distracting thing they could have possibly picked. The singer has notoriously avoided showing her face in TV interviews and performances; in her SNL spot last weekend she even wore a frilly visor.
This is complicated by the fact that her face has been shown in full on several of her albums and in this video alone you see her uncensored while in conversation with other crew members. Best not to question it too much.
