At the time of production on this music video, Maddie Ziegler was age 13. Her co-star, Shia LaBeouf was age 29. This age disparity, coupled with the actors' revealing costumes, contributed to no end of controversy.
As of June 2019, the music video has over 1,000,000,000 views.
Maddie Ziegler appeared in the music video for another one of Sia's songs titled "Chandelier"