Woke up this morning and was reminded that it's 5 years since fright-fringed f#ckwit Sia released the cinematic aberration that was Music so to celebrate (and warn future generations) I thought I'd reshare the link to my review from the time. Enjoy.  If that's the right word.  

Gonna have to hand in my Autism card...Embeth is on a MLP fix and I inadvertently bought a Sia one from the charity shop.   Hopefully it doesn't try and kill us in our sleep or "crush us with it's love".

 To fright-fringed pop princess Sia for her massive win at The Razzies. Worst actress - Kate Hudson, Music  Worst supporting actress - Maddie Ziegler, Music  Worst director - Sia, Music So to celebrate I thought I'd reshare this:  See? Dreams do come true.

  OK, so I'm gonna bite the fright-fringed bullet (or is that mullet) and watch Sia's Music so that you don't have to. You can thank me later.  Warning as this review not only contains spoilers but also liberal uses of the 'F' word. "Look at the dog!" To be honest tho' the hardest thing about reviewing it isn't the cack-handed portrayal of autism, or the cookie-cutter bullshit plotting but having to decide if it goes here on my PG friendly autism blog or over on my no holds barred sweary film blog . Maybe I should do two? Tho' only if Sia does one. See what I did there? Music (2021). Dir: Sia (Oh yes and produced and written by her too...are there any ends to her talents?) Cast: Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Maddie Ziegler, Héctor Elizondo and, bizarrely, Henry Rollins. There are actually loads of other folk but frankly I can't be arsed listing them.   Zu: I'm actually learning how to love, because I love her. Welcome ...

 Obviously someone is worried that Sia is gonna steal the utterly uneducated shite award this month....

   Just watched Sia's Power of Women conversation for Variety magazine and have to say it's possibly one of THE most horribly uncomfortable things I've ever sat thru. And as anyone here who reads my film blog will know I have a pretty high tolerance for crap. From the comments about the issues with using a non-verbal character:   "...There's this person who can't speak, she might as well be an inanimate object like a wig..." To making up utter shite like:   "They’re called special abilities now not special needs."   Part of me wants to think this is some massive Producers/Mel Brooks style exercise in bad taste and and some point she's gonna pop out and go "GOTCHA!" but I know that's not going to happen. Scarier still tho' was how Sia - after she announced how much respect she has for the 'autistic community' and how it would be 'cruel to talk about autistic people as if they’re not in the room reacted to criti...

So (non autistic) fright fringed songstress Sia Kate Isobelle Furler - or Sia as the kids cry her - has teamed up with (non autistic) children's writer Dallas Clayton  and decided to make a heart warming musical film quoted as being a " love letter to caregivers and People With Special Abilities" called, surprisingly enough Music. The 'plot' has Zu (Kate Hudson), a free spirit estranged from her family, who is newly sober but deals drugs, become the guardian of her half-sister, Music, a teenager with autism - loving the PFL here - played by non autistic 'actress' Maddie Ziegler - don't worry tho' as 'Ziegler told Marie Claire she watched documentaries and YouTube videos to prepare' ), after Music's grandmother dies.  Zu struggles with this new responsibility but gets assistance from a neighbor, Ebo (Leslie Odom Jr.). So far so disability porn but the best (and by best I mean really offensive) bit is the fact that - gasp - the ...