It might be time to Trust Our Talent. Like Sia did with this performance of Chandelier on Saturday Night Live in 2015.
I’ve watched this performance a lot. Because of the song she wrote. And the outfit. And the music production. And the vocal performance. And the physical performance. And the lighting. And the perfect vocal imperfections.
I always saw this entire thing as a perfect example of Trusting Your Talent. And a rallying call, asking whether I’m trusting mine.
But when I watched it again today, I saw something new. A comment on YouTube:
“As a deaf person, watching the sign language interpreter was phenomenal. He didn’t translate the lyrics word for word, he showed the underlying emotion of the song through sign. That’s one of the most amazing things about translating songs into sign, you see another layer of the song’s emotion in how one chooses to translate it.”
Wow. Another layer of lovely.
It might be time to Trust Our Talent. Like Sia did with this performance of Chandelier on Saturday Night Live in 2015.
Here’s Sia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hg_rIqOZHc.