I have the Sia album but unfortunately I feel it's her weakest record to date. Nowhere as good as 'We Are Born' or 'Some People Have Real Problems', I don't think there's even a single strong song on it. 'Chandelier' is all pomp and no substance for example. And then we have the other singles where she's cavorting around with a little girl wearing barely anything. She's really gone down in my estimation.
Another one that disappointed for me, was the new Prince album 'Hit N Run'. It was hailed as 'experimental' but it's actually quite bland throughout and despite all the so-called 'EDM influences', they are in the main R&B slow jams that could've been recorded in 1988. I would say a more fitting title for it would be 'Hit N' Miss'.
It is available only as an exclusive on the Tidal streaming service, but obviously it can't be that exclusive, as I found it readily-available on a torrent site. This whole 'free legal' thing is a bit of a misnomer these days, people can sign up to Spotify or whatever and listen to whatever music they want without paying a cent, but that in my opinion hurts the artists just as much as getting it off a torrent. Linda Perry for example got 30 million plays of her song 'Beautiful' (a massive Christina Aguilera hit) on Pandora for example, and received a royalty of $300 for it!! The industry are continuing to rip people off even with the new paradigms in place..
