Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Sia & Maddie

Sia has a whole series of music videos featuring Maddie Zeigler.  In them, this little girl is raging against traumas like inner anger, self-hatred, lonliness, hiding your emotions, etc.  There is a bunch in the series.  The latest show 2 young girls racing through a train lot, finding one another, and trying to escape.  There is another where Maddie I'd trying to evacuate children from a run down house that is dangerous in many ways, burning/crumbling/filthy.  She encourages them to dance, run, express themselves, and fight back. 

The story in all of these, and the many others, obviously mirrors the emotional journey of injured children.  I cry while watching them, sometimes.