Dance Alone (song)

"Dance Alone"
Single by Sia and Kylie Minogue
from the album Reasonable Woman
Released7 February 2024 (2024-02-07)
Genre
Length2:52
LabelMonkey Puzzle, Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Sia singles chronology
"Hass Hass"
(2023)
"Dance Alone"
(2024)
"Incredible"
(2024)
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Hold on to Now"
(2023)
"Dance Alone"
(2024)
"Midnight Ride"
(2024)
Audio sample
Music video
"Dance Alone" on YouTube

"Dance Alone" is a song by Australian singer-songwriters Sia and Kylie Minogue. It was released on 7 February 2024 by Atlantic Records as the second single from Sia's tenth studio album Reasonable Woman. It is also included on Minogue's seventeenth studio album Tension II (2024).[4]

Background and release

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In September 2023, Sia announced her tenth studio album Reasonable Woman and released its lead single, "Gimme Love".[5] In the same month, Kylie Minogue released her sixteenth studio album, Tension,[6] to critical acclaim.[7] Sia and Minogue had previously collaborated on the latter's twelfth studio album Kiss Me Once (2014), with Sia executive producing the album and co-writing two songs.[8] "Dance Alone" was first teased before a show at Minogue's residency in Las Vegas at the end of January 2024.[9] It was then announced via social media on 1 February,[10] and released alongside its lyric video on 7 February.[1][11]

Music video

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The music video for "Dance Alone" was released on 15 March 2024;[12] it was directed by Dano Cerny.[13] Described as a "colourful" and "psychedelic" video, it features Minogue, and a quartet of dancers in Sia's signature black and blonde wigs.[14][15]

Personnel

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  • Sia – songwriting, vocals
  • Kylie Minogue – vocals, vocal engineering
  • Jesse Shatkin – songwriting, production, bass, drum programming, drums, engineering, keyboards, percussion, synthesizer
  • Jim-E Stack – production, bass, drum programming, keyboards, percussion, synthesizer
  • Ezekiel Chabon – additional engineering
  • Samuel Dent – additional engineering
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering

Track listing

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Charts

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Release history

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Release dates and formats for "Dance Alone"
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various 7 February 2024 Atlantic [46]
Italy 23 February 2024 Radio airplay Warner [47]

References

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  2. ^ Varvaris, Mary (7 February 2024). "Kylie Minogue & Sia Set To Release Disco Duet "Dance Alone"". The Music. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  3. ^ Dolan, Jon (3 May 2024). "Sia is the Motivational Speaker She Needs on Reasonable Woman". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2024. …Kylie Minogue brings her usual down-to-earth-diva warmth to the lithe dance-pop of "Dance Alone"…
  4. ^ Hudson, Alex (19 September 2024). "Kylie Minogue Details New Album 'Tension II'". Exclaim!. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
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  6. ^ Empire, Kitty (22 September 2023). "Kylie: Tension review – Padam was just for starters…". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
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  8. ^ Cragg, Michael (17 February 2014). "First listen: Kylie's Kiss Me Once". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  9. ^ Gotto, Connor (29 January 2024). "Listen to Dance Alone, the new song from Kylie Minogue and Sia". Retropop Magazine. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  10. ^ Sia [@Sia] (1 February 2024). "Get up and move those feet, Sia's new single, "Dance Alone," is coming out next Wednesday with the iconic @kylieminogue!" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 February 2024 – via Twitter.
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