BLOGGADOCIOUS 222
by Danny Maness
Ellen had Sia on her show, singing the song Chandelier, with that 11 year old dancer who looks naked, but is wearing a thin body suit that really is embarrassing to an old septuagenarian like me. (Okay, I'm not a septuagenarian yet, but I love using that word)
I don't know where to begin, because EVERYTHING made me feel so uncomfortable, creepy, icky, and DUMBFOUNDED, very DUMBFOUNDED!
Maybe I should start at the moment Ellen introduced Sia, but explained Sia would not be looking at the camera.
Huh? My first thought was maybe she shouldn't have chosen showbiz as a profession.
After that, I see the stage setting of a bedroom and there is a silhouette of a naked girl in the window, looking right at the camera!
Now this is confusing, and it gets more confusing when Sia starts dancing all around the room, making weird faces at the cockadoodie camera!! What gives!! I thought she wasn't gonna...but wait...who is that standing in the corner with her back to the audience?!
Oh my, how absolutely odd! The dancer is not Sia at all! The dancer is a skinny 11 year old girl rolling, writhing, and making the silliest faces while in a "birthday suit" kind of thingy!
The one that is standing in the corner like a schoolgirl who had misbehaved is...Sia! WHAT? WHAT?
Being a child of the 50's and 60's I understand "gimmicks" to make a band or a performer stand out.
Everybody had a gimmick!
The Beatles - Their hair.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull - Standing on one foot.
The Who - Rock Opera
Kiss - Do I really need to explain this?
Richie Havens - Hypnotic, powerful rhythmic guitar playing.
Devo - Hats.
Elvis - Shaking his pelvis.
Smashing Pumpkins - Smashing pumpkins.
Gimmicks I can handle...but watching someone standing in a dark corner of a bedroom, singing to the wall...while a little girl hops, skips, jumps, gyrates, does really wacky facial movements, and causes herself to be ogled by 5 million people all over the world is difficult for my dilapidated brain to wrap around!
I don't know where to begin, because EVERYTHING made me feel so uncomfortable, creepy, icky, and DUMBFOUNDED, very DUMBFOUNDED!
Maybe I should start at the moment Ellen introduced Sia, but explained Sia would not be looking at the camera.
Huh? My first thought was maybe she shouldn't have chosen showbiz as a profession.
After that, I see the stage setting of a bedroom and there is a silhouette of a naked girl in the window, looking right at the camera!
Now this is confusing, and it gets more confusing when Sia starts dancing all around the room, making weird faces at the cockadoodie camera!! What gives!! I thought she wasn't gonna...but wait...who is that standing in the corner with her back to the audience?!
Oh my, how absolutely odd! The dancer is not Sia at all! The dancer is a skinny 11 year old girl rolling, writhing, and making the silliest faces while in a "birthday suit" kind of thingy!
The one that is standing in the corner like a schoolgirl who had misbehaved is...Sia! WHAT? WHAT?
Being a child of the 50's and 60's I understand "gimmicks" to make a band or a performer stand out.
Everybody had a gimmick!
The Beatles - Their hair.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull - Standing on one foot.
The Who - Rock Opera
Kiss - Do I really need to explain this?
Richie Havens - Hypnotic, powerful rhythmic guitar playing.
Devo - Hats.
Elvis - Shaking his pelvis.
Smashing Pumpkins - Smashing pumpkins.
Gimmicks I can handle...but watching someone standing in a dark corner of a bedroom, singing to the wall...while a little girl hops, skips, jumps, gyrates, does really wacky facial movements, and causes herself to be ogled by 5 million people all over the world is difficult for my dilapidated brain to wrap around!
