What were you about to do right now? We are going to look at, Sia's new movie called
Music and why it was so terrible that she wound up deleting her Twitter. I've wanted to talk about this is talking
about this for a while. I also went into wait until the film came
out, not so that I could watch it, but just so that I could confirm a few things. And unfortunately, they've all been confirmed. First of all, who is Sia? Sia, of course, is the superstar singer known
for her songs like, Chandelier and Elastic Heart, et cetera. She's currently found herself in some hot
water with the disability communities, specifically autistic people because she released a film
called Music and everything went downhill from there. But before we get into that, let's get into
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today. Now let's hop into the video. The main problem people have with this is
that the actress playing the autistic character, Maddie Ziegler is not at all autistic, nor
is she to my understanding, neurodivergent in any way, it's just a random person pretending
to have an extreme disability. To prepare, Maddie studied documentaries about
autism and watched YouTube videos by parents who recorded their child's episodes. I'm sure I don't have to say it, but this
is what we refer to in the industry as cringe. What's the best way to learn about a community
that you're not a part of? Literally just talk to them, bruh. You don't have to treat it like an art project. Maddie goes on to say, "What I realized during
this film is that everyone on the spectrum is different. Everyone is unique and beautiful in their
own way." I guess, Maddie. Obviously people started calling Sia out because
they were just kind of not a fan of this whole thing. See SIA deleted her Twitter. So unfortunately I can only really show you
article recaps of what happened. But don't worry, they all here. It's a shame that someone with such a colossal
platform is using it to exclude disabled and neurodiverse actors from their own narratives. I've been a longtime fan of your work, so
this is really disappointing. So she said, "I cast 13 neuro-atypical people,
three trans folk, and not as effing prostitutes or drug addicts, but as doctors, singers,
and nurses." She wrote, "Effing sad. Nobody's even seen the dang movie. My heart has always been in the right place." I'm sorry. Do you expect me to believe that doctors,
nurses, and singers are somehow more important or better than sex workers or addicts? "This is totally unacceptable and there are
no excuses." Tweeted one user. "You should know better than to allow able-bodied
and neuro-typical people to represent the disabled community. It's incredibly offensive as is the infantilization
of the character. Sickened and not even captioned, don't release
this." Imagine releasing something targeted towards
representing people with disabilities, but not doing the bare minimum of making sure
that it's accessible. She tweeted at one point "F the F why don't
you watch my film before you judge it? Fury." All that was really happening was people were
upset and rightfully calling you out over your movie. The exchanges only he did up though when Sia
cited Autism Speaks as a group that stood behind her film only to face feedback that
many with autism consider that organization to be the enemy. Sia said, "Autism Speaks came on board long
after the film was finished. Four years in fact. I had no idea. It was such a polarizing group." Literally, it's not like it's hidden knowledge
that autism speaks is bad. Look at these things that come up. Autism Speaks eugenics, Autism Speaks problems. They're not a good organization. Had she talked to like three or four autistic
people, we'd have told her autism speaks is ableist and wants us fixed or dead. Fun fact, autism is not something that needs
to be cured. We don't need to make people better by erasing
their disabilities. At the height of the online tension, someone
said, "Several autistic actors, myself included. We all said we could have acted in it on short
notice. Zero effort was made to include anyone who
is actually autistic." And then Sia's response was, "Maybe you're
just a bad actor." This person literally just said, "You're making
excuses." Literally not acknowledging the problem, making
any effort to listen to autistic people. "I've never referred to the primary character
as disabled. Special abilities is what I've always said." First of all, she said that she did years
and years of research. And then she went ahead and called people
with disabilities special. She said, "Forget the research that I've supposedly
done. What if I was just actually ableist?" Sia being ableist AF while claiming she meant
well is some serious abled savior BS. Once the film finally came out, they discovered
things that were in the film that were even worse than what was happening in the trailer. In this review, she also has no chemistry
with Leslie Odom Jr. Who plays a kind immigrant from Ghana named
Abo, who selflessly helps Music and utters upbeat African wisdoms. The Hamilton actor is stuck with some of the
film's most controversial sections. They had Leslie Odom Jr playing the magical
negro and it hurts my soul. He is too talented, amazing, and jaw-dropping
to be doing this. Using a widely debated method called restraint,
he attempts to call Music down during an outburst by hurling himself on top of her. "I'm going to crush you now and make you feel
safe." He says. "You're not hurting her?" Replies a panicked Kazoo. "No, I am crushing her with my love." As an artistic person, I'm very disappointed
in Sia. There are scenes in this movie of restraint,
something that is very traumatic to a lot of autistic people. Do better. Nothing about us without us. After it was revealed that the film included
scenes of restraint, which is as people pointed out, very traumatic and should not be advocated
for as some sort of positive method of talking to or interacting with people with autism. This is how she reacted. Sia adds warning label to Music movie, apologizes
to autism community on heels of golden globe nominations. I love how she apologizes once she's up for
an award and not while the people are actually calling her out and pointing out how ableist
it was. In this description of the scene, it literally
says right here, "I'm crushing her with my love." How is this not condoning restraint on autistic
people? I feel like Sia did condone it, and then once
she got informed that this was bad, she was like, "Oh, oops. Let me just pretend this was not condoning
it." I want to go through this thread right here,
this is from the Autistic Hats. "I'm watching Sia's movie in order to write
a detailed and chronological review so that nobody else watches it out of curiosity. I just want the public to see a few things
that speak for themselves, starting with this image." Oh gosh, I'm going to be honest. This physically makes me cringe. Shout to out this account for putting together
this thread, but they literally didn't even have to go further than this. The next thing I want the general public to
see is this clip from the opening scene. It has strobing lights, overwhelming visuals
and caricature of autistic mannerisms. Here's a still shot of Maddie Ziegler's face
at the beginning of that opening scene. This performance is a caricature of autistic
body language. It's unsettling and insincere, and is deeply
reminiscent of the exaggerated mannerisms non-autistic people often employ when bullying
autistic and developmentally disabled people for the ways we move. The fact that Ziegler is not autistic and
the fact that her performance is so heavily exaggerated turns the entire movie into one
long display of mockery. According to this petition, designed to get
people to stop the film from releasing, this film will not have a major impact on history. Canceling it will express that intolerance
to neurodivergence is unacceptable in today's society. Sia and her associates have additional avenues
for funds, they will survive even if no money is made from this film. They're not asking for Sia to be canceled. Spinning this as a cancel culture debate is
ridiculous. Like I said, Sia's Twitter's gone, she hasn't
given out any sort of final response. We should remember, these aren't simple mistakes. You don't not know what you're doing. I think Sia's intentions, despite her claiming
that they're awesome, don't matter when the impact is so visible. If there's anything we can learn from the
situation, I guess it's that if you're planning on making a film like this, you better be
ready to face the music. Anyway, I'll be here all week folks at 2:00
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