I can tolerate the stupid hair gimmick - every decade has at least one laughably fake eccentric - but as someone who thinks lyrics are important, her ridiculously mannered mumbling is driving me crazy. Why even bother to have lyrics at all if you're going to make them incomprehensible? Why not just make random noises and be done with it? And why do most radio presenters act as if there's no problem at all? She's a tiresome joke.

I thought she WAS making random noises?

It starts: Tough girl
In the fast lane
No time for love
No time for hate
No drama, no time
For games
Tough girl
Whose soul aches

Which she sings as:

Uuuufnerlll
inerfumll
Npnerulll
Npernuaay
Nadaamanertahh
Fergamah
Uuuufnerlll
Ouurrllaayy


Talk about the emperor's new clothes. Or as she would put it, 'Tuuppatot...aymerersnuclosed'.

Remember this?

Angel wrote:
Remember this?


Or this:

Or this;

This:

This:

Etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

Yes, I do, thanks. A peculiar defence, I must say, but jolly well done for having a go.

I don't see what most of those videos are supposed to prove. If it's that many singers consistently mumble as badly as Sia does, then they're incredibly poor choices. All of those singers are usually very clear. All these vids do is show that some well-known songs get the odd lyric misheard, which is another point entirely.

Mumbling or not, it's poor pronunciation (or, "trying to be cool") which leads all these examples to be misheard. Bad pronunciation, like.... Sia.

I'm not defending Sia, I'm not a fan, but this is an age-old thing in music.

She's trying to be different, as many have done before her. If you don't like it, so what? Many of the older generation hated Elvis, didn't do his career any harm.