2020 Billboard Music Awards: Sia performs 'Courage to Change', but Internet has 'no idea what the words were’
The 2020 Billboard Music Awards which was earlier supposed to happen on April 29, 2020, got delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but just like life, the show must go on, as the awards ceremony is now taking place on Wednesday, October 14, in Los Angeles. 'Titanium' singer Sia stole everyone's heart with her dynamite performance on 'Courage to Change' from her upcoming music album.
Kelly Clarkson, the show's host, inaugurated the award ceremony with a stellar performance of Whitney Houston's 'Higher Love.' She was joined by two-time BBMA nominees Pentatonix and renowned drummer and Prince's protege, Sheila E. In addition to Demi Lovato, Sia and En Vogue, the list of previously announced performers includes Alicia Keys, Kane Brown, Bad Bunny, BTS, Luke Combs, Doja Cat, Khalid, Post Malone, SAINt JHN and Swae Lee.
Earlier, Sia announced that she'll be performing at the ceremony as she tweeted, "The @BBMAs are TOMORROW! Catch Sia's performance of "Courage to Change" & tune in at 8/7c on NBC #BBMAs - Team Sia,"
The @BBMAs are TOMORROW! Catch Sia's performance of "Courage to Change" & tune in at 8/7c on NBC #BBMAs ✨💖 - Team Sia pic.twitter.com/sssfBAdhOI
— sia (@Sia) October 13, 2020
As soon as her performance started, people started praising her, as one Internet user wrote, "MY QUEEN! I love you and thank you for everything you do! You were amazing!" and another one praised her and wrote, "She was amazing i love her sm"
MY QUEEN! I love you and thank you for everything you do! ❤️You were amazing!
— Alina (@undersiaspell) October 15, 2020
More people started appreciating her as one tweeted, "Her performance was really necessary in this awards My little bow tie." Thanking her, another one said, "@Sia
HELLO:) Thank you very much for showing us your costumes and hairstyles and lovely performance wrapped in cute yellow and pink It was great to see it."
Her performance was really necessary in this awards
— ᴮᴱ𝑨𝒊𝒎⁷☁︎ (@PainxGain) October 15, 2020
My little bow tie🥺🎀
@Sia HELLO:)
— 마리나*s 🍒 (@mx_top_xn) October 15, 2020
Thank you very much for showing us your costumes and hairstyles and lovely performance wrapped in cute yellow and pink💛💗
It was great to see it❣️
Praising Sia, another one said, "@Sia, I missed that cute lil chin. Loved the outfit & the performance. I know you were nervous & that just makes you human. I love you sweetie. Always." And some just got emotional with her performance and wrote, ".@Sia performing at #BBMAs just had me in tears. Her performance moved me as I felt each and every word. So much honesty and purity."
@Sia , I missed that cute lil chin. Loved the outfit & the performance. I know you were nervous & that just makes you human. I love you sweetie. Always.💖💯
— Eric Ousley (@iminhere1970) October 15, 2020
.@Sia performing at #BBMAs just had me in tears. Her performance moved me as I felt each and every word. So much honesty and purity. pic.twitter.com/TqySzKygp2
— jasmin 🏳️🌈 (@ArcticFox_03) October 15, 2020
While some were not able to understand the lyrics as one wrote, "I literally have no idea what any of the words were that Sia just sang. Please annunciate. #BBMAs "
Some people referred to Sia's collaboration with BTS for the album titled, 'Map of the Soul : 7' and questioned it just before the awards ceremony started, "So bts and sia collabed on a song and it’s horrible..... and sia was performing at the billboard and bts are too so i’m saying what if they perform that song.. idk if that makes sense or not." Another sounded almost apologetic that the singer sounded 'bad' to them: "SIA sounds so bad on the billboard music awards right now sorry
I literally have no idea what any of the words were that Sia just sang. Please annunciate. #BBMAs
— Christopher Aland (@tophaland) October 15, 2020
SIA sounds so bad on the billboard music awards right now sorr y
— o'reilly autoparts (@youcouldstay) October 15, 2020
so bts and sia collabed on a song and it’s horrible..... and sia was performing at the billboard and bts are too so i’m saying what if they perform that song.. idk if that makes sense or not 😭😭
— ً hoseok’s soulmate (real) (@lujhk) October 15, 2020