Troye Sivan gay nfsns. The Guardian terviews the pop rerdg artist about growg up, g out, and his new rerd.
Contents:
- TROYE SIVAN: ‘THERE’S POWER LIVG OPENLY WHILE BEG GAY’
- TROYE SIVAN ON LIVG ‘OPENLY AND TTHFULLY…WHILE BEG GAY’
- TAYLOR SWIFT FEATUR GAY PORN PERFORMER KEV FALK NEW ‘DELITE’ VIO
TROYE SIVAN: ‘THERE’S POWER LIVG OPENLY WHILE BEG GAY’
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“I wanted to make the song sound gay, down to the productn, by payg homage to a certa clap sound an old Madonna song, ” he explas on the phone om LA, to which he’s recently reloted om Perth, Atralia. “Also, the vio there are shirtls guys, but they’re not touchg each other – I didn’t want anybody to be like, ‘This vio mak me unfortable bee ’s gay. “But at the same time ’s sooooo gay.
Historilly, male gay pop stars have eher been outed by the tabloids, tricked to outg themselv, or forced to packagg their sexualy to mopey ballads about longg orr to f a narrative. “From before I knew I was gay, I knew I wanted to be a sger, so I didn’t ever want to let [my sexualy] change that trajectory, ” he stat.
TROYE SIVAN ON LIVG ‘OPENLY AND TTHFULLY…WHILE BEG GAY’
I thk there’s power livg openly and tthfully, while also beg gay. I was gettg close to turng 18 and I wanted to be able to go to gay clubs, so I was sred that people were gog to see me and the label would fd out that way. ”This lack of reprentatn is why all the vios to the songs om Blue Neighbourhood featured scen of male love terts, wh the central Neighbourhood trilogy pictg the negative fall-out om beg “exposed” as gay – somethg he had avoid.
Sivan st gay porn actor Brody Blomqvist the mic vio for “My My My!, ” a bop about the thrill of new love that The Guardian scribed as “horny and hedonistic. Joel Edgerton, the Atralian actor-director who st Sivan a supportg role Boy Erased, his upg film about a young man sent to a gay-nversn facily, was ptivated by Sivan’s dn tape. ” And enuraggly, Capol wasn’t the only label willg to take a risk on a boundary-phg gay artist — the bids to land Sivan, says Jubelirer, were “very petive.
But I felt, greater than all of those worri, a rponsibily to tell that te story — of the cur gay kid who puts himself some kd of shady suatn to fd a nnectn, like all of crave. “Even though was dly embarrassg — I walked the para wh my parents and my [two] brothers and my sister — was ol bee I realized that they weren’t jt tolerant of their gay son, they were stoked and proud.
TAYLOR SWIFT FEATUR GAY PORN PERFORMER KEV FALK NEW ‘DELITE’ VIO
But at the end of the day, those were vios om straight artists featurg gay people. Troye Sivan, the openly gay 22-year-old pop sger born South Ai and raised Atralia, shared his vio for “My My My, ” and Hayley Kiyoko – a 26-year-old actrs-sger om Los Angel who me out as a lbian 2016 – unleashed her “Cur” clip. He prevly picted queer love his breathtakg Blue Neighbourhood vio trilogy, but “My My My” is somethg almost unseen the history of mastream pop: A gay man relishg his sensualy while flirtg wh a dre of siarly sensuo mols.
Troye Sivan gave an terview to The Guardian which lls the young gay artist “pop's greatt hope for the future. Says Sivan to the magaze: “From before I knew I was gay, I knew I wanted to be a sger, so I didn't ever want to let [my sexualy] change that trajectory. I thk there's power livg openly and tthfully, while also beg gay.
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