Sia talks about Amy

[MDPA]

Did anyone else see this? I was randomly listening to Sia’s interview with Howard Stern fom June 18th of this year and she mentions Amy! Listen! Starts at 30:32

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBDhJ7cwLY

[WhoDat]

I think I’ve heard Howard Stern mentioning how talented he thinks Amy was before.

Really interesting that Amy was too intimidated to work with Sia!

[monkeywoman]

I wish Amy would’ve done an interview with him. he’s an amazing interviewer, insanely curious and really gets people to open up

[WhoDat]

I heard him saying before that they tried to get her in for an interview, but their people couldn’t get anywhere near her to ask. I find it odd that she would be that difficult to get in touch with or that there would be people around her stopping anyone from getting close to her. Howard usually gets his musical guests to perform in studio too, which would have been cool. I really like him as an interviewer too. I think an hour with Amy would have been very insightful.

[monkeywoman]

I think their problem was they were being too official. they easily could’ve wrote and ask her (or Mitch, he sees everything) on twitter lol.
I heard him say that too but I don’t believe him.. if there was an award for most approachable celebrity Amy would’ve probably won, maybe she just ignored hes request or something

[WhoDat]

Being approachable with fans and such might be a bit different to trying to get someone to come in for an interview though, especially with someone like Howard Stern who is going to ask awkward questions about stuff that she may not have wanted to talk about. I could quite easily believe that they couldn’t get in touch with her too. Bearing in mind too that Howard Stern records in New York. They would have had to have pretty good timing to get her whenever she was free in New York. Would have loved if they could gave gotten her in.

[HelloSailor]

@MDPA

Did anyone else see this? I was randomly listening to Sia’s interview with Howard Stern fom June 18th of this year and she mentions Amy! 

 

 

I came across an old interview of Sia, she mentioned Amy quite often back then it seems:

 

 

 

Your voice has been compared to Amy Winehouse  :
I don’t read anything so I don’t know. But I text pest Amy all the time. Every time I hear about something damaging happening to her I want to give her a hug because she is really nice. I text her like once a month. She never responds. It’ll just say, ‘We’re listening to your record, you’re fucking amazing. Lots of love, Sia.’

http://www.me-me-me.tv/2008/01/15/sia-i-text-pest-amy-winehouse-another-fabulous-exclusive/

 

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Amy Winehouse or Britney Spears?
Whose baby would I like to have? [Laughs] Well, I’m rooting for both of them. I care about Amy. I care about her because I am a fan and I’ve met her a couple of times and I kind of stalk her. I’ve got her phone number and whenever I listen to her album and I love it I text her and say, “I’m listening to it again, it’s so good!” Or when I saw those pictures of her after they’d been in a fight and I felt really sad about it I sent her a text saying that I cared about her, and I wished her lots of love. She never responds. I know she gets them though because her manager told me. She doesn’t really respond to anyone, she doesn’t do email. If I had Britney Spears’ number I’d do the same for her. I care about people in pain, you know? You’ve got to be a careless person not to care about people in pain. I’ve had my fair share of ups and downs. I had total nervous breakdown when I was making the last album. The reason I care and that I write to Amy is that I can identify with people in pain, I guess. One of my fans told me he was in pain on the message boards recently and I gave him my phone number. I was like; “If you’re going to hurt yourself just call me.” I don’t know. I’m rooting for both of them. I don’t want to see anyone in pain. I don’t know about ridiculing people in the press, its mean and it’s dangerous.

I asked Amy Winehouse to do a collaboration and she said, “No way.” And I was like, “Why not?” And she said, “I’m intimidated by you. I’ve been listening to you since I was a teenager.” I was totally shocked because she’s my favorite contemporary voice. Her and Lauryn Hill. I just think that’s shocking to me and because we sound so different. I was just shocked.

http://yousingiwrite.blogspot.fr/2008/03/q-with-sia.html

 

It’s funny, some of her earlier stuff (that predates Frank) does remind me of Amy a little. I can see how Amy might have been influenced by Sia, definitely.