And among many ways to achieve that attitude and personality, one which is easy to do is to ignore everything they do and say. In order to defeat them, there is no other way but to be resilient and persistent. So we have to be ready to meet and be confronted with them. Unfortunately, such kind of people are everywhere. This later type of people will try hard to make us down. All the rest seems to be happy to see us failing. There seems to be only so few people who join our happiness when we achievement success. As one friend of mine said, "this life is hard, to beat it." Yes, it's true that this life is rough. It follows, then, that my interpretation of the song is relative and not one hundred percent true.īased on the complete lyric of the song, I conclude that this song tells us about one's persistence and resilience in dealing with unfriendly surroundings. Hence, we will never be able to find the meaning if we realy only on the lexical and grammatical meaning of the words. “Titanium” appeared on NOW That’s What I Call Music 43, alongside other dance hits like Calvin Harris and Ne-Yo’s smash “Let’s Go.” Looking for more stories behind music’s biggest hits? Check out the Now! That’s What I Call Music page.Meaning, Main Idea, and Message of The Songīefore discussing the song, let me first tell you that all the lyric lines of this song are connotative in nature. She became one of pop music’s most celebrated songwriters (her credits include Rihanna’s “Diamonds”, Beyoncé’s “Pretty Hurts”, Britney Spears’ “Perfume,” and Katy Perry’s “Chained to the Rhythm”) as well as becoming a mega-artist in her own right thanks to singles like “Chandelier” and “Cheap Thrills.” She’s since called “Titanium” the best thing to happen to her career. It also cemented Guetta as a go-to producer for pop stars, and catapulted Sia into exactly the sort of position she wanted. “Titanium” played a key role in launching dance music back into the pop music mainstream. It also entered the Top 10 singles charts in numerous countries and peaked at No. The single went multi-platinum in Australia, the U.S., and the UK. The song didn’t need any help: Everything about “Titanium” is BIG, from Sia’s massive roars, the motivational lyrics (“I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose/Fire away, fire away”), and the blood-pumping production from Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, and a then-unknown Afrojack. Sia agreed under one condition: She didn’t want to do any promotion for the song (including a music video). Guetta felt similarly and ultimately used her demo as the official version. “‘They should stay on the freakin’ record. Who is the person on the record?’” Perry recalled during a 2020 Tommorowland conference with Guetta.
The latter singer passed because she didn’t want to duplicate the sound of 2010’s “Firework.” “I remember specifically listening to on the plane, I was like, ‘Oh my god, this song is so good. Keys turned the song down, and the demo then ended up in the hands of Mary J. Sia wrote and performed a demo of the song for Guetta, with the intention of having Alicia Keys sing the final version. But it was the Sia-assisted “Titanium” that became the most consequential of the hits, as it near-immediately changed the course of the singer’s career and pop music itself.
Like its predecessor, there were Top 20 singles like “Where Them Girls At” with Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj, “Turn Me On” with Minaj, and “Without You” with Usher. He continued this collaborative approach on 2011 follow-up Nothing But the Beat. His fourth album, 2009’s One Love, included Billboard dance chart-toppers “When Love Takes Over” featuring Kelly Rowland, “Gettin’ Over You” with Fergie and LMFAO, and “Sexy Bitch” with Akon. Prior to its release, Guetta already had a few hits. Parisian-born DJ/producer David Guetta was among the leading players in this movement - thanks to his 2011 collaboration with Sia, “Titanium.” From pop stars like Britney Spears and Rihanna to R&B heavyweights like Usher and Ne-Yo, DJs were called upon to inject their pulsating four-on-the-four beats into radio-dominating singles. At the turn of the 2010s, dance music in America went from being an underground club secret to the mainstream’s go-to formula.