Some People Have Real Problems by Sia

Some People Have Real Problems, Sia's fourth studio album, came out on Hear Music in 2008, a few years after the Adelaide-born singer had swapped London for New York City. Anyone who knew her from her vocals with Zero 7 or her moodier earlier records got a surprise: this one is brighter and poppier, with the gloom lifted, though she still saves room for a handful of big, aching ballads where that cracked, elastic voice gets to stretch out.

The singles included "Day Too Soon", "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine", "Soon We'll Be Found", which she performed live with sign language alongside the words, and "Buttons", whose video had her face squashed and bent out of shape by pegs, string and netting. It became her first album to reach the Billboard 200, entering at number 26, and it went gold in Australia.

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