--- description: "Adele gave me a top tip" title: Adele Gave Sia This Surprising Singing Advice image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaba55dec31e7dc80/69887524cf40a80d32c41103/sia.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Adele Gave Sia This Surprising Singing Advice by [Andrea Park / People](/author/people/) ## Andrea Park / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 12, 2015 7:14 PM CUT  Sia on "The Voice". Sia on "The Voice".Tyler Golden—NBC/Getty Images by [Andrea Park / People](/author/people/) ## Andrea Park / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 12, 2015 7:14 PM CUT If there’s one person qualified to give music powerhouse Sia advice, it’s [Adele](http://www.people.com/people/adele "undefined"). While visiting _The Graham Norton Show_ on Friday, [Sia](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:Sia,00.html "undefined") talked to Norton about whether it’s possible to tour while singing powerful songs that are the signature of both her and Adele. (Sia also helped write on Adele’s [recent album _25_](http://www.people.com/article/adele-stories-behind-songs-25 "undefined").) “Yeah, you just do it down,” Sia, 39, shares. “Actually, Adele gave me a top tip. She was like, ‘Yeah, whenever you can’t hit the high note, you’re just like la la la,’ ” the “Chandelier” singer says, miming holding the microphone out to the audience so the burden of hitting that impossibly high note is on them. Sia adds, “I was like, there’s a reason she has 80 million dollars!” Start warming up for those high notes – Adele recently announced that she will be [going on tour in 2016](http://www.people.com/article/adele-25-topping-nielsen-music-sales-records "undefined"), and Sia is [releasing a new album in January](http://www.people.com/article/sia-new-single-bird-set-free "undefined") that you’ll surely want to sing along with. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/adele-gave-sia-advice-touring-album-power-ballads "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com/article/adele-gave-sia-advice-touring-album-power-ballads "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4146831/adele-gave-sia-this-surprising-singing-advice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4146831/adele-gave-sia-this-surprising-singing-advice/"},"headline":"Adele Gave Sia This Surprising Singing Advice","datePublished":"2015-12-12T19:14:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:19:32.350Z","description":"\"Adele gave me a top tip\"","url":"https://time.com/4146831/adele-gave-sia-this-surprising-singing-advice/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaba55dec31e7dc80/69887524cf40a80d32c41103/sia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Andrea Park / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaba55dec31e7dc80/69887524cf40a80d32c41103/sia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Voice - Season 9","caption":"The Voice - Season 9","creditText":"Tyler Golden—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4146831/adele-gave-sia-this-surprising-singing-advice/","name":"Adele Gave Sia This Surprising Singing Advice"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Five Things You May Not Know About Adele, The Savior Of Song","description":"Adele was an aspirational singer on Myspace before becoming a worldwide phenomenon.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ps8KQX1S/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-20T19:52:54.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ps8KQX1S.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4146831/adele-gave-sia-this-surprising-singing-advice/","duration":"PT2M17S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4146831/adele-gave-sia-this-surprising-singing-advice/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```