Sia’s forthcoming album, Reasonable Woman, was inspired by a very ‘darkish time’ following the singer’s divorce from Erik Anders Lang in 2016.

In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 on Thursday, the Australian singer-songwriter opened up about her debilitating despair that lasted years after the separation and in the end fueled her inventive course of.

“Well, actually, the truth is that I had just been every now and again writing a song here or there for the last six, seven years,” she instructed Lowe.

“I got divorced and that really threw me for a loop. That was such a dark time that I was in bed for three years, really, really severely depressed. And so I couldn’t really do anything for that period of time,” she mirrored.

The nine-time Grammy nominee recalled how she would sporadically work on songs whereas grieving the tip of her marriage for years, till she lastly had sufficient materials for an album.

“And then, finally, it just turned out we had enough songs to make an album, enough good ones,” she recounted.

“So I just rely on my management to tell me when we’ve got enough good ones because I don’t really… I can tell when I think one is particularly good – I think I can tell – but they tell me when we’ve got 11 ot 12 or 13 good ones, real good ones,” the Elastic Heart defined.

Reasonable Woman, slated to be launched in Spring 2024, marks Sia’s first solo album launched since Everyday Is Christmas in 2017. That was across the identical time as her divorce with Lang, who’s a filmmaker, round two years after the pair tied the knot.

As a preview to the anticipated comeback album, Sia dropped its main single, Gimme Love, on Wednesday.