Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Even though Sia has been performing and writing music for more than twenty years, she has recently gained a lot of popularity from her newest album. This is even more unexpected since Sia has decided to hide her face. She’s shy and doesn’t like being famous.
Instead, Sia has actors and dancers who are already famous wear a wig that looks like her own hairstyle to perform in her place. In her latest music videos for the songs “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart,” a young dancer wears the light-colored wig and does some amazing interpretive dancing to her music.
Marni really enjoys the artistry of the new popular music videos, but Brian doesn’t really understand them. Find out more in today’s English lesson about the singer Sia.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Brian: Hey, Marni. Have you seen this new artist who did the “Chandelier” video?
Marni: Sia?
Brian: Yeah, what did you think of that?
Marni: So, are we talking about “Chandelier,” or her new one, “Elastic Heart”?
Brian: They’re very similar, aren’t they?
Marni: There’s the same girl who’s in both of them, who is donning a Sia wig.
Brian: They both just have interpretive dancing in them.
Marni: Yes. I think they’re amazing. There’s such artistry in them. I just find them captivating.
Brian: Really? I just don’t get it.
Marni: Really?
Brian: I just think they’re bizarre just to be bizarre.
Marni: Hmm, interesting. Maybe I’m such a fan of dance and I just think there’s such interesting stories that can be told through interpretive dance. They are a little bizarre, especially “Elastic Heart.” But I think they’re really engaging. I like that people are using dance to tell stories.
Brian: I will say that when I watched them, what happened was completely unexpected.
Marni: There you go.
Brian: Quite surprising.
Marni: I think that’s part of what an artist wants is to have unexpected reactions.
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Discussion
In Sia’s newest music videos for the songs “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart,” a young dancer brings the songs to life. Marni loves the artistry of the dancing and how it can show the meaning of the songs. She is a big fan of dance and thinks that it’s a great way to tell stories.
But Brian doesn’t feel the same way. In fact, he thinks that the videos are really weird and he doesn’t understand them. Not everyone can understand the use of dance to tell stories, even if it is done in a very interesting way.
Have you seen the Sia videos? What do you think about dancing as a way to tell a story?
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