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Australian singer-songwriter Sia has not yet said that her latest single is about the Orlando massacre where 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub by a mentally disturbed shooter. But the references to the tragic incident that took place in June in her music video for her latest single The Greatest featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar are unmistakable. Like rock band Green Day before her, Sia, too, seems to be dealing with the spate of mass shootings in America.

The music video opens with a close up of a dancer, frequent Sia collaborator Maddie Ziegler (Cheap Thrills, Chandelier) painting her face with the colours of the rainbow. Inside the same house, exactly 49 other dancers are trapped inside a cage. Ziegler rescues them and they come running out dancing incredibly energetically and Sia begins, “Uh-oh, running out of breath, but I, oh, I, I got stamina”. It then begins to look like just another one of Sia's dance-music videos – until the end. The group of dancers all collapse in a heap to reveal a wall riddled with what looks like bullet holes behind them.

Unlike most pop tributes to tragedies, Sia's version is being seen as a powerfully artistic statement of mourning for the Orlando massacre because it works more with suggestion and metaphors. A twitter user broke down the meaning behind the song through GIFs.