Elastic Heart


 * "And my heart will go on and on" — Céline Dion

"Elastic Heart" is the eighth track from Sia's sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear, which was released on 9 January 2015 as the album's fourth single. Prior to that, a version featuring the Weeknd and Diplo was also released as a single from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2013).

Music video
On 7 January 2015, the music video for the song was released. Directed by Sia and Daniel Askill and choreographed by Ryan Heffington, the video features Maddie Ziegler, who previously appeared in the video for Sia's single "Chandelier", and actor Shia LaBeouf. In the video, Ziegler and LaBeouf wear flesh-coloured and dirt-smeared tights. Justine Harman from Elle likened the concept of the video to the plot of Titanic. Jason Lipshutz from Billboard summarised: "The entirety of the video features the surprising pair interpreting the song through various body contortions: they dance-fight, collapse in the middle of the cage, crawl toward and away from each other, and make some wildly fantastic facial expressions." The video was nominated for the 2015 VMA Award for Best Female Video. Billboard selected it as one "of the 10 best music videos of 2015 (so far)", as did PopCrush, commenting that the video's "lopsided choreography and filthy warfare yields a raw, junkyard beauty that doesn't ask who will make it out alive, but whether escape is ever really on the table." New York magazine's Vulture.com ranked it #6 on its list of 2015's top 10 music videos. As of March 2020, the video has received more than 1 billion views on YouTube. It was the 8th most viewed YouTube video in 2015.



Controversy
Upon its release, the video faced criticism due to the depiction of an adult and child dancing together, clad only in flesh-coloured dancewear. Some commentators perceived the piece as pedophilic, and Sia later apologised on Twitter: "All I can say is Maddie and Shia are two of the only actors I felt could play these two warring 'Sia' self states. I apologize to those who feel triggered by 'Elastic Heart'. My intention was to create some emotional content, not to upset anybody." A YouTube parody of the song by Bart Baker that references this criticism has received over 25 million views, as of March 2020.

Official audio


== Official remix audio ==

== Charts ==

Trivia

 * Despite the remix not appearing on the digital version of 1000 Forms of Fear, it is used on the vinyl version of the album.