Some collaboration throw you back at first sight. They just seem slightly odd. This was my initial reaction when I heard about a collaboration between P!nk, Sia and Norwegian dance producers duo, Stargate. I was particularly puzzled by the idea of P!nk singing on a dance track. She’s had her party songs, but they’ve always been her own style. In all honesty, I couldn’t really place her singing something like Sia’s “Titanium”, a full blown dance anthem.
The song is called “Waterfall” and it’s not a dance anthem. It’s a moderate dance song, by lack of a better term. Instead of going all out, it’s more about sensitivity in its chorus full of one line: “I’m in your waterfall”.
My first impression of the song is that I think it’s completely written by Sia. The first verse, sung by P!nk just sounds so recognizably like a melody that Sia would write. When Sia then follows up with her parts, it almost sounds like she’s screaming compared to P!nk. Her vocals are so sharp and loud, but the combination of both superstars work really well together.
This single follows up “Just Like A Fire” for P!nk, which she recorded for a movie. In the meantime, she’s become a second time mummy (I think she delivered a girl this time.) Before her second pregnancy, there were a lot of rumors about a new album that was coming. Some websites even went as far as to publish potential titles that they’d been hearing about, but the pregnancy put everything on hold and I wonder if this collaboration is opening the door to a comeback.
Funny enough, neither P!nk nor Sia are actually featured in the official music video. Stargate themselves also stay out of the limelight and are not in the video. They have had an interesting career, so far. In the early beginnings of their career, they were creating teen pop, mainly for some of UK’s biggest acts like Atomic Kitten and S Club 7, but they slowly shifted to create some serious dance charting songs, like Rihanna’s “Only Girl In The World”. Even that is so different from “Waterfall”, which has more of a sultry feel that you would expect to have feature other singers than Sia and P!nk. I’m glad they chose to go for the unexpected though.
The song itself has actually been out for a little over a month now, but has only caught my attention because it’s about to hit the charts.
