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Sia comes alive in hernew music video featuring a fresh little muse. Rather than using MaddieZiegler, who has starred in three of her videos — "Elastic Heart," "Big Girls Cry" and "Chandelier" — Siaturned to the Internet to find Mahiro, the star of her latest video "Alive."
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"I just was looking for littlemartial artists and so I went on YouTube," the singer says inthe behind the scenes video. "Couldn't have been easier to find her. Shewas like the third video I looked at."
The 9-year-old karateka wasshocked to learn she had been cast in Sia's project. Mahiro says, "Ihave only been focused on my karate and being in tournaments, so I wassurprised to be a part of this music video." Donning a ying yang version of the wig featured in other Sia videos, the little Japanese martial artist shows off her impressive moves on set of the abandoned warehouse.
“When you meet her, she’s a regular nine-year-old who’sinto stickers and hair elastics and then you yell ‘action!’ and she starts herkarate and it’s like holy f**k,” Sia says.
Mahiro joins Maddie and actor Shia LaBeouf (starred with Maddie in the singer's "Elastic Heart" video) who have both been cast in other Sia music videos.
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