Sia: Elastic Heart (2015 Music Video)
8/10
Just do it!
4 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This is "Elastic Heart", the music video for the the 2015 song with the same name by Australian Golden Globe nominated singer Sia. As usual, she is not in the video and we only hear her voice. However, we see Maddie Ziegler again dancing just like in "Chandelier" and she is equally spectacular here, even if she has to share the attention with Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf this time. Thanks to him, this film has more of a story than Sia's last music video. I thought this was another pretty artistic video and some nice music. I would not say that I was blown away by any of the aspects here, but there is not a second of weakness either in these5 minutes and the ending is truly dramatic actually. I enjoyed watching this and recommend it. I hope Sia can keep up that level in her next works.

Update 13/04/2018: And again I have to correct my rating and review on a Sia music video (original is from August 4th, 2015 with 4 out of 15 people finding this helpful: This one grew on me a lot over the last 1.5 years, actually 1.5 weeks I could almost say. It is incredibly catchy, visually outstanding once again and there is just nothing about it that I don't enjoy. And I would also like to say that I cannot agree with the pedophilia criticisms because even if the video may be about it (and that is unclear), it never encourages, it just shows the pain for everybody involved, especially Shia Labeouf's character. That's why I also really liked that they kept the last minute almost completely silent as we see him suffer. And before that the slow motion punching sequence shows how great of an actor Labeouf actually is. I think that is all then, I highly highly recommend the watch here. Amazing story, amazing choreography, amazing music. Don't miss out.
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