Paris Hilton is featured on heartbreaking new Sia song Fame Won’t Love You about ‘growing up in the spotlight’

Paris Hilton has collaborated on a heartbreaking new Sia song called Fame Won’t Love You, about the pain of being a celebrity.

The 43-year-old has always lived in the public spotlight, starting from her teenage years as the wild child in a world-famous hotel family.

As she grew older, she and her friend Nicole Richie became breakout reality stars on the runaway hit series The Simple Life.

When she was just 20 years old, she became a subject of notoriety and ridicule when her sex tape with her much older boyfriend Rick Salomon was leaked – an experience she claims caused her “post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Now, on her new song with Sia, Paris sings crushingly about trying to “find validation for my useless existence” in the audience’s “smiles,” only to discover that “fame won’t love you like a mother , like a father’. should.’

While promoting the song on her Instagram page this week, Paris revealed, “This song is a tribute to growing up in the spotlight.”

In one verse, she sings about how she “searched your eyes for a spark of light, while she tap-danced for a million miles.” I looked for the smiles, oh, in the hope that I would find confirmation in them for my useless existence.’

Sia and Paris then sing together: ‘I have such thin skin. Do not scratch the surface. Please let me live in this circus.”

The chorus, which both women sing together, begins: “Little dreams come crashing down – let them swing by, ’cause fame won’t love you like a mother, like a father should. And maybe you wish for Oscars, Grammys and blockbusters, because fame won’t love you like a brother, like a lover should.”

Fame Won’t Love You is one of the songs on Sia’s upcoming 10th studio album Reasonable Woman, which will be released in full on May 3.

Paris joins a formidable list of artists including Kylie Minogue and Chaka Khan, as well as the likes of Jimmy Jolliff and Tierra Whack.

Meanwhile, Paris is also working on an album dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community, with Sia as executive producer.

Paris rose to early fame as a tabloid figure when she was a teenager, infamous for sneaking into nightclubs with a fast-living set.

She has accused her parents Rick and Kathy Hilton of becoming so frustrated with her antics that they sent her to a boarding school, where she claims she was subjected to physical and psychological abuse.

When she came of age, she and her best friend Nicole Richie – Lionel Richie’s daughter – became two of the first reality stars.

Their show The Simple Life was a lighthearted romp about rich girls making clumsy attempts to work normal, blue-collar American jobs.

However, Paris was continually haunted by her reputation as a party girl, and was subsequently traumatized by the leak of her sex tape in 2003.

She and her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who is thirteen years older than her, starred in the tape that was leaked in 2003 and which Rick himself started selling in 2004.

“That will always be something that will hurt me for the rest of my life,” she admitted during an interview with Vanity fair three years ago.

She and Rick filmed the sex tape in 2001, and after a three-minute version of it was leaked by Kahatani Ltd. in 2003, they both sued the company.

Rick also released a longer version of the video, which he posted on NBC in February 2004: “It’s 18 minutes in color and I think everyone will enjoy it.”

In April, Rick made a deal with porn studio Red Light District Video to sell a 45-minute version called 1 Night In Paris.

At the time, it was reported that Rick paid Paris $400,000 plus a percentage of the backend profits, but her camp said she would give the money to charity.

Paris eventually found happiness with venture capitalist Carter Reum, whom she married in November 2021 during a three-day extravaganza.

The couple have since welcomed two children into the world together: a son named Phoenix, 15 months, and a daughter named London, five months.