{"id":510,"date":"2015-03-30T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:58:20","slug":"the-story-behind-the-swinging-from-sias-chandelier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/the-story-behind-the-swinging-from-sias-chandelier","title":{"rendered":"The story behind the &#8220;swinging&#8221; from Sia&#8217;s &#8220;Chandelier&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>While listening to a song for the first time, most of us don&#8217;t bother even to try to interpret the lyrics. But when you stop and hear what the Australian singer <\/strong><a title=\"Sia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/sia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Sia<\/strong><\/a><strong> is expressing in&nbsp;<\/strong><a title=\"Chandelier\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/sia-chandelier-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Chandelier<\/strong><\/a><strong>, you can&#8217;t help but simply be amazed that this is something way beyond &#8220;just another successful hit&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen to the&nbsp;lyrics to find the song&#8217;s&nbsp;meaning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sia - Chandelier (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vjPBrBU-TM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hidden in the lyrics, the story of the song-writer is revealing a tough and sorrowful story of one personal battle &#8211;&nbsp;the one that Sia herself had to lead against addictions. Of course, this technique in song-writing is popular, but what\u2019s interesting here is the choice of words she made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing that crosses one\u2019s mind when thinking about alcoholism, partying hard and use of addictive substances, is that <q>I&#8217;m gonna swing from the chandelier<\/q>&nbsp;could literally mean suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, this &#8220;swinging&#8221; points directly to the sad, broken attention-seeker who desperately needs help but fails to express in a good way this need of his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alone in her own fight against addictions and problems, the main character in the story (brilliantly performed by a young Sia-like girl in the video of the song) passes through ups and downs, shameful moments and despair, while having another <q>glass full until morning light<\/q>. But she\u2019s <q>holding on for dear life<\/q>&nbsp;and she&#8217;ll continue to hold on until she finally gets through this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a certain, maybe even more dramatic way, the song re-creates Sia&#8217;s story and serves as attention sign for all the young girls who find themselves swinging from the chandelier at a party, fiercely starving for attention &#8211; &nbsp;attention, but from the wrong people; attention, but on the wrong place and definitely in a wrong way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to a song for the first time, most of us don&#8217;t bother even to try to interpret the lyrics. But when you stop and hear what the Australian singer Sia is expressing in&nbsp;Chandelier, you can&#8217;t help but simply be amazed that this is something way beyond &#8220;just another&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/the-story-behind-the-swinging-from-sias-chandelier\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-analysis","tag-chandelier","tag-sia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}