Sia Shares Inspirational Journey On How She Overcame Dark Times To Create New Music

In a candid conversation with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Australian singer Sia, at 47, recently unveiled how her darkest moments became the wellspring of her creativity. 

According to the singer, her journey into her latest album, Reasonable Woman, began with a period of deep depression triggered by her divorce from Erik Anders Lang, her spouse of two years. The Grammy winner opened up about her ordeal, describing it as a time when she was bedridden for three years, grappling with severe depression.

The forthcoming album, Reasonable Woman, marks Sia’s return to the music scene after a hiatus since her 2016 release, This Is Acting. The first single, Gimme Love, has already made waves and offers a glimpse of what’s to come. While the album is expected to drop in spring 2024, Sia hopes her creative process during her dark times is an inspiring tale for the world.

“I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop. That was such a dark time that I was in bed for three years, really, really severely depressed. And so I couldn’t really do anything for that period of time,” she shared.

The Chandelier hitmaker revealed that during her struggle with depression, she started by recording “just little bits and pieces here and there.” It was a slow but steady journey towards healing and creative resurgence. She relied on her team to gauge when they had “enough good ones” for an album. 

Despite her private love life, Sia recently tied the knot with her boyfriend, Dan Bernad, in an intimate ceremony in Portofino, Italy. 

Sia also shared her unique approach to performing, mentioning her trademark blonde wig. For her, it created a “little bubble” where she felt safe and focused. “When I got sober is when I put the wig on my face and that’s when I had in-ears and wig and I’m just like, ‘It’s like I’m in a little bubble with myself,.” she shared.

She concluded by expressing her desire to perform without the wig one day, reconnecting with her audience in a more personal way. In her words: “But now that I know that that’s what’s going on, I think maybe one day I’ll do a show with my face out again and have little fun talking to the audience and being heckled and getting present again because those shows were really fun back in the day before I had the wig on.”