page_title: Chandelier (song)
section_title: Covers and uses in media
hierarchical_section_title: Chandelier (song) / Covers and uses in media
caption_attribution_description: English: The first european showcase of Sara Bareilles at night theatre Sugar Factor Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 4 Apr 2008
context_page_description: "Chandelier" is a song by Australian singer Sia from her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear. 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.
  The single received critical acclaim and reached the top 5 on record charts in 20 countries including France, Italy, Poland, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. In the United States, the single peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Sia's first single as a lead artist to appear on the Hot 100, and has sold over 2 million copies in the country.
context_section_description: In July 2014, Sara Bareilles performed an acoustic version of "Chandelier" during her Little Black Dress Tour. Reut Odinak from the Seattle Weekly lauded Bareilles' vocals on the cover. Likewise, MuchMusic's Evan Desouza wrote that "The song sounds almost [unrecognisable] with the stripped, acoustic cover. Of course no one can match Sia's insane voice, but Sara does a decent job. Her vocals sound amazing." 
  The song was covered on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in September 2014 by Irish band The Script, Music and Lyrics praised the lgroup's three-man harmonies. In November 2014, Loïc Nottet a Belgian hopeful for the Eurovision Song Contest released a cover of the song on YouTube in November 2014, later praised by Sia on Twitter. Months later, he danced the song twice (including one in the final) in the French Dancing with the Stars, winning the competition. 
  In September 2019, a protester in Hong Kong parodied the song by combining parts of a speech by Maria Cordero, a famous Hong Kong singer who was against the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. Cordero's original speech complained that the protesters were disruptive of her daily life, but the parody lyrics condemns the Hong Kong police. The parodied vision of the song, named "Maria Has Something to Say" (Chinese: 《肥媽有話兒》), was uploaded to YouTube on 2 September 2019, and reached nearly 2 million views within the first month. The 2017 film Happy End written and directed by Michael Haneke includes a karaoke cover of the song that has been described as "the movie's most indelible scene". In March 2020, Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice released a cover of "Chandelier" as part of a benefit album to help support relief efforts to the 2019–20 Australian bushfires. In August 2020, English producer and PC Music founder A. G. Cook released a cover of "Chandelier" as part of his 7 disc debut album 7G, featuring vocal contributions from American musician Caroline Polachek.
caption: Sara Bareilles (pictured in 2008) covered "Chandelier" on her Little Black Dress Tour in 2014.
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