Sia dropped the powerful music video for her song "Free Me," this week.
Actress Julianne Moore narrates as Zoe Saldana is featured as a woman learning she is HIV+ in a doctor's office.
As with many of Sia's videos, the video features moving interpretive dance by longtime Sia collaborator, Ryan Heffington. The piano-led ballad incorporates soaring orchestral passages, and emotionally raw lyrics:
Free me, free me
From this pain I've been running from
I'm tired and I'm free falling
Free me, free me
From this shame I've been running from
I'm lost and I am calling you.
Hilton Dresden writes for OUT:
“The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one that can affect anyone, particularly child-bearing women around the globe,” said Sia in a statement. “I’ve proudly joined forces with the Abzyme Research Foundation and the #endHIV Campaign for the release of my song, ‘Free Me,’ to help raise funds and awareness for a potential breakthrough cure of the epidemic.”
#EndHIV is an initiative of the Abzyme Research Foundation, which believes they've discovered a cure for AIDS through the use of an antibody, called an abzyme "Our immediate goal is to raise the funds needed to commercially manufacture the vaccine to FDA standards and to gain FDA approval for a human clinical trial," says the Foundation on their site.
Sia's new "Free Me" video concludes with a sobering statistic: HIV is the number one killer of women of reproductive age around the world.
One hundred percent of proceeds for the single will benefit the #endHIV campaign.
Watch below.
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