Interview smartly asks in their new issue:
What would happen if a pop star were to hold back from public view all but a few of her identifying characteristics? Without a famous face, well-documented dating history, and popular backstory, how then are we to know her? What is left for us to focus on, critique, adore, pin up, or tear down?
For almost two decades, the Australian-born, 39 year-old Sia (born Sia Furler) has had sustained success. Her recent move toward uber-privacy preceded her smash album 1000 Forms of Fear is sort of self-preservation. Sia has created a visual accompaniment for her music on stage and screen that annoys and confronts our expectations and conventions. Is it a gimmick? “For sure,” she says, but it’ also a way to hold on to some sense of normalcy in her life. She tells her pal Kristin Wiig, none of the recent success, nor, indeed, the distillation of her image down to that hairstyle, was accidental, but the control she now exerts over her professional life is a necessary luxury. Check out these photos by Gregory Harris and read the whole story in the April issue of Interview.
(Photos, Gregory Harris; via Interview)
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