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"Alive" is written in the key of F ♯ minor with a tempo of 100 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression of F ♯ m–C ♯ m–D–F ♯ m–C ♯ m–D–Bsus2, and Sia's vocals span from F ♯ 3 to E 5. [9] "Alive" is a midtempo pop and synth-pop power ballad. [1] [2] [10] Dan Weiss of Billboard found the song similar to Demi ...
In 2011, Sia was featured on the successful singles "Titanium" by David Guetta and "Wild Ones" by Flo Rida. In 2013, she contributed the song "Elastic Heart" to the soundtrack of the 2013 American film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. A year later, she released her sixth, breakthrough studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear.
"Alive" is in the key of A major and features an extended guitar solo after its third chorus (3:38). The solo for "Alive", performed by McCready, was ranked number 44 on Guitar World 's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos", [ 4 ] and number 26 on Total Guitar 's list of the "100 Hottest Guitar Solos". [ 5 ]
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Kayla wrote her first song at age seven and knew music was going to be in her life and often turned chores into musical productions. [3] [4] In 2016, Haywood joined the eight season of The X-Factor Australia where she performed Sia's song "Alive" but did not make it past the early rounds of the show despite a standing ovation from Guy Sebastian.
Song structure is the arrangement of a song, [1] and is a part of the songwriting process. It is typically sectional, which uses repeating forms in songs.Common piece-level musical forms for vocal music include bar form, 32-bar form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues.
[1] [2] [3] [10] It was written by David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Marcus van Wattum and Sia in the key of D minor. [11] Sia's vocals in the song span a range of F 3 to D 5. [11] Ben Kaye of Consequence of Sound described the song as "an uplifting '80s banger" with "a slapping '80s beat that's a few electronic note removed from Sing Street". [10]
And as always Sia’s vocal brings with it a much needed and long overdue burst of sunshine that will warm even the stoniest of hearts". [ 3 ] A staff writer of The Mirror said; "With its pumping brass arrangement and over-expressive, too-keen-to-please vocals, this is the sort of declamatory record more suited to the US market than the British ...