Track Listing

1. Little Black Sandals
2. Lentil
3. Day Too Soon
4. You Have Been Loved
5. The Girl You Lost To Cocaine
6. Academia
7. I Go To Sleep
8. Playground
9. Death By Chocolate
10. Soon We'll Be Found
11. Electric Bird
12. Beautiful Calm Driving
13. Lullaby

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #847 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
In addition to her successful solo career, Sia has also worked extensively with ZERO 7; She provided the vocals for the hit singles "Destiny" and "Distractions" from their debut album Simple Things, as well as tracks on their subsequent albums, When It Falls and Garden. She also collaborated successfully with MASSIVE ATTACK and WILLIAM ORBIT.

Sia has had huge club hits, including "Drink To Get Drunk" [remixed by DIFFERENT GEAR] and the UK garage remix of "Little Man" by WOOKIE

"Breathe Me," from her album Colour the Small One gained significant attention when it was used in the elaborate final scene of HBO's SIX FEET UNDER.

Amazon.com
After a smattering of success surrounding her inclusion in the Six Feet Under series finale with the song "Breathe Me," and collaborations with electronic stars Massive Attack and Zero 7, Sia (Furler) returns with a pop record that's witty and touching, alternately funny and achingly melancholy. Shades of Fiona Apple cross with Joss Stone's blue-eyed soul. Sia shines on a terrifically sung take on the Kinks' (by way of the Pretenders cover) "I Go To Sleep" and her own deeply felt "Lentil." Many of these songs shimmer with a radio-friendly gloss, but the show belongs to this eccentric Australian, who bravely subverts the accessible production through winking and sometimes sinister lyrics. Beck guests on the metaphor-packed "Academia," book-ending lines like "you're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion" with a mournful chorus that strips away the lyrical cleverness to plumb the broken-hearted depths of a ruined relationship. Check your enhanced CD for a truly strange video for the hidden bonus track, "Buttons," in which Sia distorts her face using a wide variety of objects, including scotch tape, fishnet hose, and a condom, to name a few. If this playing with her own image is Sia's warning shot across the bow of a popular music industry obsessed with the visual, it'll make you think twice about what you're seeing, but can't distract from the intoxicating soundscape she delivers. --Ben Heege

Variety
"Like a chocolate cake doused in rum, it's sweet, but packs a kick."

Customer Reviews

Great album
I first became familiar with Sia when she collaborated on some music with trip hop duo Zero 7. Zero 7's music rather bored me but I did like Sia's vocals quite a bit enough to get her first album COLOUR THE SMALL ONE. I finally got around to getting her latest cd SOME PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS. I have been listening to it non-stop. I like the fact that her music isn't easy to categorize. It is a mish mash of trip hop, jazz, pop, and rock. The music is relaxing but not enough where I would find myself getting drowsy while listening to the album at work on my ipod. My personal favorite songs are Sia's ballads like "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine" and "Lullaby". I really like the melodies to those songs in particular and the lyrics sends chills down my spine. On a more uptempo side, I love "Little Black Sandals" and "You Have Been Loved". My only quibble with Sia's music is her voice. There are moments when her voice tends to be a bit too shrill for my liking like "Academia". Overall SOME PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS is a wonderful album.

Sia the Magnificent
I have all of Sia's solo efforts, from the relatively unknown Healing is Difficult to her latest musical opus. I've also had the immense pleasure of seeing her in concert with my fiance in arms. Sia needs only one word of description: breathtaking. Fin.

No real problems here
Another reviewer described Sia's album as her audition for American Idol. Sia does indeed have an amazing unique voice, but there were far too many drawn out whoOoOoOahs, AaAaAhhhhhhhHhHhs, and OoOoOoOh's throughout the album. I felt this often not only distracted from some of the awesome melodies, but also, her voice has many unique quirks and qualities that are lost when she does this. That being said, I do think the strength of her voice somewhat guides the style of her music, and the album was deceptively much more R&B ( and really not as quirky and upbeat and you may think it would be from the album cover and from the leaked track "buttons") than I thought it would be, which is cool, but unexpected. I love Sia as much as the next one, but some of the lyrics seemed rushed and uninspired, like the track "soon we'll be found" and "death by chocolate"...a definite downgrade from her last album, and from her work with Zero 7. Though "Academia" and "Lullaby", are awesome.