Album Review: Sia - This is Acting

4/5

Sia Furler is an enigma concealed in plain sight. She refuses to be photographed and rarely gives interviews. Performing on Saturday Night Live, last November — introduced by Donald Trump, of all people — the 40-year-old Australian hid beneath a space-age wig. Behold the ultimate contradiction: a pop star who rejects fame. “It’s horrible,” Furler once told the New York Times, of her struggle with becoming a public face (her only media tete-a-tete of note in the past decade). “I just wanted to have a private life. Once, as my friend was telling me they had cancer, someone came up and asked, in the middle of the conversation, if they could take a photograph with me. ”