Sia and Adele New Single Alive 2015

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published 24 September 15

As we speak, Maddie Ziegler is being fitted for another platinum-blonde wig and warming up her face muscles so she doesn't get a cramp contorting her eyebrows (opens in new tab). This can only mean one thing: new Sia single.

Like pretty much all of the artist's other songs, "Alive" is about being sad but finding the strength to be less sad, a theme one could also apply to most of co-writer Adele's work.

"It's about Adele's life, so I now sing a song from Adele's perspective," Sia said in a recent interview with NME (opens in new tab). "This is the first song from this new project. I'm calling it This Is Acting because they are songs I was writing for other people, so I didn't go into it thinking, 'This is something I would say'. It's more like play-acting. It's fun."

And inevitably, we'll get a video of Dance Moms Maddie pretending to be Sia pretending to be Adele. So meta. Listen below.

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Chelsea Peng

Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at MarieClaire.com. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.