Maddie Ziegler was born 11 years ago, but when her mom chose to allow her daughter to dance in pop star Sia's new "Chandelier" music video in a nude leotard and blunt-cut platinum blond wig, it felt like we may have just witnessed the girl’s birth as an underage sex symbol.
It’s not so much a problem, as a conflict for parents like me – who suddenly find ourselves in the odd position of having a 10-year-old boy who wants to watch a video of an 11-year-old girl in a costume designed to trick the eye into thinking she’s a nude version of the singer, whom we are hearing lament her inability to stop being a drunken “party girl.”
“Whoa! Is that a naked girl doing a split,” my son Quin asked as he tried to get closer to the computer in order to better view a photo of one of the highlights of the video. [source CSM]
They're talking, of course, about ELEVEN YEAR OLD DANCER Maddie Ziegler's pivoting role in this new video by 35 y.o. Aussie "Sia", with song-lyric subtitles...
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'VE JUST SEEN, OR WHY...