Troye Sivan: ‘There’s power livg openly while beg gay’ | Troye Sivan | The Guardian

Contents:

• “RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
• TROYE SIVAN: ‘THERE’S POWER LIVG OPENLY WHILE BEG GAY’
• TROYE SIVAN AND JARED FRIER HAVE A (VERY GAY) CONVERSATN
• TROYE SIVAN DON’T WANT YOU TO CALL HIM A GAY IN: ‘I’M ONE VOICE OF SO MANY THAT ARE MISSG’
• NGAKU GAY, INTIP 7 POTRET TROYE SIVAN PAMER KEKATAN NGAN KEKASIH PRIA
• ‘THREE MONTHS’ REVIEW: TROYE SIVAN SETS A POSIVE EXAMPLE GAY TEEN ROMANCE

“RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM

Ined, his ovre reads like a gay g-of-age story: there are the nods to boyhood and g out the trilogy of Blue Neighborhood mic vios; reflectns on the nocence of early sexual experienc “Seventeen” and “Bloom”; he pots to the body-image challeng of existg as a gay man “STUD”; to heartbreak “The Good Si” and the ache for love of “Angel Baby”; and now the wds of liberatn, sexual eedom, and nfince “Rh. ” There’s also his film work, as the angsty gay teenager Boy Erased, or the high schooler who fds out he’s been exposed to HIV Three Months. Judgg by “Rh, ” wh s betifully grty Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio (cludg an already Twter-viral keg stand and Sivan dancg around a jockstrap), he may very well be up celebrate the release of “Rh, ” and the announcement of his third stud album, Vogue spoke to Sivan about gayns, partyg, queer muny, and the importance of mic vios.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

Photo: Stuart Weff / Courty of Universal Mic GroupVogue: I have to start by askg about the name of the song, which many of on the gay rner of the ter are assumg is a reference to poppers, given the well-known brand also named Sivan: I mean, sure.

Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem. We n be gay after the month of June.

I wanted to start gog out and gog to gay clubs and meetg boys, and I wanted to wre songs about love that were te and genue. " and "Bloom" have ma him a buddg gay in. “It seems like a se study on how whe gays choose to view queer people as a whole.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

It seems like a se study on how whe gays choose to view queer people as a whole.

He ntued, sayg, “It’s not that someone like Troye Sivan *has to* clu diverse bodi all his vios, ’s the fact that he chose to promote ‘Rh’ as this gay sex liberatn anthem yet left out a massive chunk of the populatn he’s sgg about?

30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN

It’s not that someone like Troye Sivan *has to* clu diverse bodi all his vios, ’s the fact that he chose to promote “Rh” as this gay sex liberatn anthem yet left out a massive chunk of the populatn he’s sgg about?

Atralia is s gay era: a time when all the arne and uy machatns of the untry une to discharge a torrent of queerns upon the world. Jt sayg — Mch Feltscheer (@mchfel) July 13, 2023The cleart harbger of this era is the double whammy of gay pop that Atralia has produced recent months.

It is pure gay smut: a paean to poppers spired, per his own admissn, by the sweaty clubs of Melbourne’s Smh Street.

TROYE SIVAN: ‘THERE’S POWER LIVG OPENLY WHILE BEG GAY’

It is, perhaps, the bt fence of twk Rh is merely a chaser to that other tentpole of gay Atraliana: Kylie Mogue, whose sgle Padam Padam skyrocketed to the top 10 of the UK charts last month and has (mostly) stayed there sce.

But hear me out: this current era is by far Atralia’s gayt. )Sce Bartlett, the gay Atralian agenda has been full swg. How lucky we are to be livg through the entire spectm of queer all, evably, serv as a precursor to Sydney WorldPri – that 17-day party earlier this year rponsible for the stctn of every gay person’s sleepg habs.

This current gay era may live and die, but Progrs Shark is forever.

TROYE SIVAN AND JARED FRIER HAVE A (VERY GAY) CONVERSATN

Frh off shock-llar torture on The Idol, Troye Sivan has jt released his new song “Rh, ” a tle meant to voke both the feelg of poppers and dancg wh someone hot, along wh an acpanyg mic vio burstg wh gay smut. So we cid to get one gay who remembers the release of Kylie Mogue’s “Lootn” and another gay who is too young to remember the release of “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” to bate whether this track is actually a Bop or Flop.

Y, has a Village People qualy to , but I also thk ’s tertg to see what happens when you streamle the mp of our gay tracks of yore and rce them down to one sgular emotn (horny).

It’s a return to body fascism and emaciatn — two gay tast that actually never went out of style. It feels like part of the reason Troye miss out on the spotlight is bee he’s gay and unwillg to create the kd of watered-down mp that his queer peers are g to ga attentn (hi, Sam Smh).

TROYE SIVAN DON’T WANT YOU TO CALL HIM A GAY IN: ‘I’M ONE VOICE OF SO MANY THAT ARE MISSG’

If he’s never gog to be an arena artist, he might as well make thgs gayer, sexier, and weirr than they would. It was a gayer time even though all of you are gay now.

Is Troye Sivan’s ‘Rh’ Sexy Fun or Gay Detr?

A Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio dropped alongsi the song, settg the ter ablaze for s heady pictn of a sticky, sexy, very gay summer. His srlet templ suggt he’s eher taken a big ol’ huff of the poppers his song oh-so-cleverly referenc, or he’s the thro of homosexual exultatn (anal).

NGAKU GAY, INTIP 7 POTRET TROYE SIVAN PAMER KEKATAN NGAN KEKASIH PRIA

The image remds of the work of Peter Hujar, specifilly Orgasmic Man, 1969, a photo that was recently repurposed for the ver of another gay cultural artefact, the Hanya Yanagihara novel A Ltle Life.

The mic vio for “Rh” is a gay men’s mag e to life, as if Andy om Toy Story kept a stack of XY the rner over Woody and Buzz. A reference to the XY chromosome found blogil mal (a tad sentialist, but we move) XY magaze was a youth-foced gay magaze found Wt Hollywood 1996, and featured chiselled lads edorials full of brash, primary lours.

It’s homoerotic and ’s goofball-d, like sports fans who get dnk at the Euros and ci to moon and slap their iends’ bums until the blood vsels burst at the surface. It’s got all the trappgs of a Caravagg patg – the drama, the dynamism, light and sha, pretty gay boys.

‘THREE MONTHS’ REVIEW: TROYE SIVAN SETS A POSIVE EXAMPLE GAY TEEN ROMANCE

Caravagg was, of urse, a gay man himself, so ’s not too far-fetched to suggt they’d slip the reference . ”He was also adamant that “Rh” not be released durg LGBTQ+ Pri Month June, notg: “Sure, I’m gay and I’m sgg about sex, but ’s not like I’m tryg to make a Pri anthem. Troye Sivan has spoken about his early difficulti g to terms wh beg gay a new terview.

’ sger said: “Comg out as gay is one thg. Growg up a society where I didn’t want to be gay for the first 15 years of my life, I was terrified of .

Sivan had revealed to the world that he was gay on his YouTube channel 2013, and admted he’s often found difficult lkg his sexualy as part of his artistic inty. “I never set out to be this gay pop idol, ” he stated the terview. “I remember all the young girls g to my shows and thkg, ‘I know they know I’m gay, so why are they g?