Pop Is Not The Enemy: Mashed POP-tato #5

For our next featured mashup we're featuring an artist we've talked about a lot on Pop is Not the Enemy, Sia, and arguably one of the most globally popular British artists at the moment, Ellie Goulding.

'Burn', Goulding's first number 1 single in the UK, showed her stretching her pop wings and making possibly her most poptastic moment to date (although that may have now been beaten by the sublime 'Love Me Like You Do') and it reaped major rewards internationally. I don't really need to say anything about 'Chandelier' by Sia, if you can't recite most of the lyrics to this and know it instantly from it's stuttering opening beats you've obviously been living under a rock. In my humble opinion it is one of the finest pop singles of the last 10 years and it signaled the birth of Sia as a worldwide popstar on her own terms.

The eerie synths in the opening verse perfectly compliment Ellie's feather-light vocal delivery, then the backing soars as the chorus kicks in - perfect timing! It's a winning combination of the darkness of Sia with the light of Ellie Goulding, and it sounds pretty damn good!