--- --- # Hear Sia's New Song 'Alive,' Co-Written By Adele ## Video: Giorgio Moroder Describes the Perfect Pop Dance Song [Watch (HLS stream): Giorgio Moroder Describes the Perfect Pop Dance Song](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J4PWndMR.m3u8) (1:15)  _Published 2015-02-06. At the age of 74, electronic music producer Giorgio Moroder is releasing his first album in three decades._  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 24, 2015 2:05 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 24, 2015 2:05 PM UTC Sia’s upcoming album is called _This Is Acting_ because, as the “Chandelier” singer [explained in February](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6473116/sia-new-album-finished-this-is-acting), “They are songs I was writing for other people, so I didn’t go in thinking ‘this is something I would say.'” It’s not hard to figure out whom she had in mind when writing the soaring first single “Alive,” which you can hear above. Not only does it _sound_ like a soulful Adele power ballad, trotting along just like “Rolling in the Deep,” the elusive chanteuse (seriously, Adele, where’s the album?) is actually listed as a co-writer alongside Tobias Jesso Jr., who made TIME’s list of the [best songs of the year (so far)](http://time.com/3927166/best-songs-2015-so-far-music/) in June. If this is the kind of quality material that [reportedly isn’t good enough](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6686015/sia-single-alive-written-for-adele-this-is-acting) to make Adele’s album, then the follow up to _21_ is probably going to slay when it’s expected to arrive in November. Sia 'Alive' Co Written By Adele from This Is Acting ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/"},"headline":"Hear Sia's New Song 'Alive,' Co-Written By Adele","datePublished":"2015-09-24T14:05:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:13:52.537Z","description":"The song was reportedly intended for Adele's album","url":"https://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/","keywords":["Music","Sia","Adele"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/","name":"Hear Sia's New Song 'Alive,' Co-Written By Adele"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Giorgio Moroder Describes the Perfect Pop Dance Song","description":"At the age of 74, electronic music producer Giorgio Moroder is releasing his first album in three decades.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/J4PWndMR/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-06T22:07:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J4PWndMR.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/","duration":"PT1M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```