For years, we’ve known Sia Furler as one of our most imaginative and idiosyncratic pop voices, but to the rest of the world, her formidable talent was only known through superstar conduits like Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Ed Sheeran.
On her latest album, reportedly titled This Is Acting, Furler is compiling a collection of songs she originally wrote for other artists and taking them on for herself, including the freshly unveiled ‘Alive’, originally intended for Adele.
“I’m calling it This Is Acting because they are songs I was writing for other people, so I didn’t go in thinking ‘This is something I would say,’” the songwriter and ‘Chandelier’ hit-maker told NME earlier this year.
“It’s more like play-acting. It’s fun.” According to Consequence of Sound, Furler recently told Zane Lowe that her follow-up to 2014’s smash 1000 Forms of Fear will include songs she’d done for Beyoncé and Rihanna.
