Time to clear up the Sia thing.
A few blogs ago, I thought mayhaps the talented Miss Sia had stolen that one song “Fire meet Gasoline” from Beyonce (“Halo”- the two sound alike, but at varying speeds). And, like many other people who haphazardly scrawl stuff out on the internet, I didn’t fact-check before posting. To be fair, I intentionally avoid doing too much “research” before I let the idea-bones banging around in my brain land on the screen to be sheathed with detail flesh and accessorized with glittery media. My reason for this is that, inevitably, I end up finding someone else’s creative and original one liners or puns and they become the only thing I can think of when I try to do my own creative stuff (and wouldn’t it be hypocritical to subconsciously be stealing from other writers while I’m writing about creation theft?) Also, to be fair, despite my assumptions, I def wasn’t slamming Sia’s rendition. In fact, I said it was better than Beyonce’s. Still, I should’a consulted probably with a few more folk before writing it – because I did yesterday. After the fact. While speaking with the same friend I first heard it with. In reply, she issued a quizzical look to me before asking:
“Are you sure Sia didn’t write the song for her?”
“What do you mean?”
“She writes for a lot of artists – including Beyonce. I dunno about that song but…”
Well, that’s interesting, I thought. I wonder if she did write it… and then it was like me when I re-read an article I wrote anywhere from two years to two days ago and am just tortured endlessly inside about how I could make it better until I finally write a follow-up entry (not unlike this one) that’s an idea reprisal of it. However, as I’m vowing to do at least slightly better Google-consulting, I guess I should start now by saying, “Nope”.
This guy wrote it:
But she has written for all’a these folk.
Did you see that list? Indeed Beyonce’s on that list – albeit not for “Halo”. Probably a helluva lot more where that came from, too. Also, this actually makes it even more interesting than if she’d done the song in question for B. I mean if you quietly create little melodies for other artists, and then several years later you copycat-with-a-twist one of their hits until it sounds even better than the OG, then… what do they do? Can’t bite the hand that feeds your career very well, can ya? That’s ultra-genius right there: make friends with all the pop stars, gift them with your brilliance tentacles till they’ve got a few chart toppers, and then borrow back later when you’re trying to fill the holes on your next album. Man, this theory’s even better than my one about her wig being an identity mask. Despite alla’a that (and despite the fact that the verdict’s still out on her being a tune burglar), I do need to research better before throwing quasi shade, layered in compliments. And assume less. And take those B12 vitamins that remain sitting in the bag I bought them in two weeks ago.
And I still stand by the fact that “FmG” trumps “Halo”.
I also still don’t trust that coif of hers.
Pretty sure it’s where she hides said tentacles that multitask gifting tunes to pop stars while stealing their other ones.
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