Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul)

This sunny jam finds Sia singing of getting ready to go clubbing: It's Saturday and it won't be long Gotta paint my nails, put my high heels on It's Saturday and I won't be long Til I hit the dance floor Sia, who often talks down her songs, called it "straight fluff."

Like most of the other This is Acting tracks, this was written for another artist but rejected. In this instance, Sia penned the carefree tune with Greg Kurstin ("What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)," "Hello") for Rihanna. "Her manager said, 'We want 'Diamonds.'" [Sia wrote "Diamonds" for Rihanna] We need soul. We want some music that has feeling," she recalled to Rolling Stone. "I went to Greg and that's what we came up with. I realized just as soon as I was cutting it that it sounded a little bit too Brit-pop for her. It's more Icona Pop. We did actually send it to her, but they passed on it, and then I just couldn't stop listening to it in the car." "There's something really uplifting about it that put me in a good mood, and I would just pretend it wasn't me singing [laughs]," Sia continued. "It felt very summer and fun, and I was like, "I'll put that on there."

A remix of the track was released featuring reggae artist Sean Paul. His verse gives the song a whole new dancehall makeover, which pairs nicely with the tune's use of the reggaeton dembow rhythm. Dembow, an evolution of the three-note tresillo pattern found in African and Latin American music for centuries, blends a steady kick pattern and a syncopated backbeat: boom-ch-boom-chk. The bouncy rhythm flooded the mainstream when artists like Sean Paul and Daddy Yankee ("Gasolina") incorporated it into their songs. The remix was released as This is Acting's second single.