Key facts
- Released
- 17 March 2014 ( 2014-03-17 )
- Studio
- Hot Closet Studios Echo Park
- Genre
- Electropop
- Length
- 3 : 36
- Label
- Monkey Puzzle RCA
- Songwriters
- Sia Furler Jesse Shatkin
- Producers
- Greg Kurstin Jesse Shatkin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- song
- Genre
- electropop
- Followed by
- Eye of the Needle
- Follows
- Elastic Heart
- Composer
- Jesse Shatkin
- Producer
- Greg Kurstin
- Performer
- Sia
- Record label
- RCA Records
- Lyrics by
- Jesse Shatkin
- Distribution format
- music streaming
- Image
- Sia - Chandelier logo.svg
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- publication date
- 2014-03-17
- language of work or name
- English language
- single taken from the album or EP
- 1000 Forms of Fear
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Chandelier" on YouTube
"Chandelier" is a song by Australian singer and songwriter Sia, from her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear (2014). Written by Sia and Jesse Shatkin and produced by Shatkin and Greg Kurstin, the song was released on 17 March 2014 as the lead single from the album. It is an electropop song, featuring electronica, R&B and reggae influences. Lyrically, the song has a melancholic theme, detailing the demoralisation and rationalisation of alcoholism through the thought process of a "party girl". More broadly, the song speaks to the fleeting feelings of release and abandon that come with intoxication, as well as the pain, guilt and emptiness that accompany addiction, alcoholism and hedonistic excess.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chandelier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.