Kate Pierson x Sia Team Up for New Single “Everyday is Halloween”
Kate Pierson x Sia x Sam Dixon Team Up for New Track
Out Today, Friday the 13th
Cover art photo by: John Stapleton
“It seems that Halloween is everyone’s favorite holiday yet there are only a handful of Halloween songs!” declares Kate Pierson. “So I am correcting this grave mistake with a VERY spirited song written by me and with the supernatural SIA and the soulful SAM DIXON.”
“Every Day Is Halloween is a haunting yet uplifting song about a woman who is dying to be seen! She finally gets to return as an apparition and all her secrets will be finally revealed – and she will be seen!”
Kate further explains to Rolling Stone: I worked with Sia on my previous solo record “guitars and microphones”. She’s an astounding lyricist and has the pop ears of a siren – her songs call to you and linger – she’s also fun and fast so working with her is a joy. When we write together as a B-52s, it’s a long process involving jamming and collaging the pieces together -when I write songs with other people or on my own it’s quicker. Sometimes the songs come to me quickly..this song was actually the first song we attempted in our writing sessions back in 2014 and we usually collaborated with a third party. In this case Sam Dixon who has done work with Sia and Adele. I had some lyrics and title for the song so we started with a bass line and came up with melodies, and then Sia fine tuned the lyrics to fit. I remember she added the line “when the grave’s unsealed -I was like whoa that’s really amazing!”
“I love this song because it’s very personal to me as a performer who has spent so much of my life in dress up stage costumes – and hair and makeup! The dividing line between my “real self “ and my stage persona – although both are real – is blurred – literally making every day Halloween 
Look for her – and her apparition will appear on Friday the 13th!
Photo credit: Josef Jasso
Short bio
Pierson had spent close to 45 years as a member of the iconic new wave dance band the B-52s Named for over the top beehive hairdos that were still common in the South and were adopted on-stage by Kate and Cindy, the group was the first act to break out from Athens’ budding new wave music scene after their 1978 independent single “Rock Lobster”
“52 Girls” became an underground smash and led to a record deal with Warner Bros. The B-52s became one of the most successful acts on the American scene and they have been actively touring ever since with top hits like “love shack” and “Roam”
While the B-52s’ schedule certainly kept Pierson busy, she began appearing as a guest vocalists with other acts, most notably sharing vocals with Iggy Pop on his 1990 single “Candy” (from the album Brick by Brick) and adding memorable support on R.E.M.’s hit “Shiny Happy People” as well as appearing in the music video. It wasn’t until 2015 that she finally released her critically acclaimed solo album, Guitars and Microphones; produced in part by Sia, who co-wrote eight of its ten songs She has a second solo record in the works to be released soon.
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Photo credit: Josef Jasso
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