maddie was in five total music videos with sia.
how many total music videos is maddie in with sia?
five
sia used songs from her 2016 hit album "this is acting" to craft powerful visual vignettes. it was the rare arena concert that had a real sense of tension and mystery to it. ... [sia relegated] herself to the far side of the white performance space ... it was an odd but not unexpected arrangement that put the focus squarely on the visual aspect of the show. since there was sadly no live band and sia herself did little besides sing note-perfect if somewhat rote versions of her songs, it wasn’t out of the question to wonder what we needed her for, anyway. after all, there was a magnetic visual assault to focus on, led by 14-year-old dancer maddie ziegler, who has starred in five of sia's music videos since 2014. ... most of the time, the dancing perfectly complemented the music and asked you to pay attention in different ways than most shows do. ... but sia was such a passive presence, when things weren’t quite as visually interesting, there wasn’t much else to draw you in.
nostalgic for the present tour
in 2015, ziegler starred with shia labeouf in "elastic heart", another sia video, which has accumulated more than 1 billion youtube views. later that year, ziegler starred in the music video for "big girls cry" to complete her trilogy of videos from sia's album "1000 forms of fear". ziegler danced to sia's vocals on several television shows in 2014 and 2015, including "the ellen degeneres show", "dancing with the stars", "jimmy kimmel live!" and "saturday night live", as well as at the hollywood bowl. by the end of 2015, ziegler had performed with sia on the "ellen degeneres show" three times. she also performed to "chandelier", alongside sia and kristen wiig, at the 2015 grammy awards. the "chandelier" and "elastic heart" videos were both selected as part of popsugar's 2016 list of "25 of the best dance videos of the last decade". in 2016, ziegler starred in a fourth sia video, "cheap thrills", from the album "this is acting". a "teen vogue" reviewer wrote that ziegler "delivers another powerful performance". this was followed by a fifth sia video, later that year, for "the greatest". the video of the song has accumulated more than 600 million youtube views. reviewing ziegler's performance, kathleen hildebrand wrote in "süddeutsche zeitung" that anyone who has seen ziegler's "iconic" movement will never again return to "boringly ordinary" mtv videos. ziegler continued the collaboration with sia and the group lsd in the music videos for "thunderclouds" (2018) and "no new friends" (2019).
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