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Sia - Elastic Heart Music Video

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im yelling…Maddie Ziegler is literally 12 years old

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Guys this is a music viedo about Sia and her father. Maddie is Sia and Shia is the dad. The MV is about her and her father both being trapped, I think in mental illness, and how it caused them to not get along. At one point her father get better and tries to reconnect causeing her, Maddie to freak out and run away making him then regress. Towards the end Sia, played by Maddie gets better and escapes leaving her father behind. She then goes back to har father, they reconnect, and are seen playing, before she tried to help him escape. In the end he is too old, big and set in his ways to escape. That is why she is outside of the bars pulling on him. The song is about how she will always try to help him no matter how hopeless it is. They are wearing nude leotards because that is what dancers wear and the color keeps from distracting from the dance. Get your minds out of the gutter. All of the choreography was playful if you look at it. It was a very beautiful work.

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It actually makes me very sad that people are misconstruing this video. Not only is this an amazing performance on the part of both Shia and Maddie, but this is a perfect visual representation of what it is like to battle with hereditary mental illness. Dance has always been a way to express with the body ideas and themes that are too difficult to explain with words.

I understand that it’s abstract and a little intense on the first view, but just because they are wearing nude leotards and physically touching doesn’t make it sexual in the least. There is nothing in this video that is inappropriate due to Maddie’s age. The themes and emotions she’s brilliantly portraying are ones I hope she has never and will never have to deal with personally, but she is an artist and clearly has an understanding of the subject matter (to an extent) to be able to portray it so well.

This video is meant to shake you, that much is clear. But what should be most jarring is the raw emotion and bare intimacy the two share in their dance. (Remember kids, intimacy =/= sexuality). The pain, anger, sadness, playfulness, and closeness between Maddie and Shia (and the allegorical father and daughter they are meant to represent) is normal and not at all inappropriate. Of course some movements or facial expressions are exaggerated for the sake of performance, but nothing shown here is remotely intended to be sexual, nor does it read that way to anyone who has an understanding of dance or theme.

Please stop taking this amazing and moving piece of art and making it something it’s not. Thanks.