New music: Troye Sivan teams up with Ian McKellen for Party
The mood-board was medieval faggotry.
With Troye Sivan's new album scheduled for release on 9 October, he's now given us the music video for the second single to be released.
Following on from She's the Best with Nicole Kidman and Sasha Colby, the music video for Party is also directed by Gordon Von Steiner and features the voice of Ian McKellen.
This is medieval faggotry at its finest.
She's the Best
Featuring spoken-word vocals and a trip-hop beat, Sivan co-wrote She's the Best with Jack Antonoff, Leland, Kaeyln Behr, and George Daniel.
Sivan has said that the song is an intentional tribute to the women and femme-identifying people who have shaped his life.
"At some point along the way I realised – the only constant in my life keeping me somewhat sane has not been the work, or the men, but the feminine. Thank god for them."
Directed by Gordon Von Steiner, the music video is set in a femme-filled club and features Nicole Kidman and Sasha Colby.
Who is Troye Sivan
Troye Sivan has been working hard in the entertainment industry since about the age of 11, when he started appearing in television shows in Australia where he grew up. He talked publicly about being gay in a YouTube video, when he was about 18 – he’d told his family a few years before that.
“I just got to this place where I was so gay in my personal life, and really proud of it…” Sivan explained in an interview with Vogue. “And I was like, I want to share this with the whole world.”
What’s particularly appealing about Sivan, is that he’s not trying to project some sort of hyper-masculine image - the sexual awakening that he's explored through his music has always had an undeniably queer aesthetic. He's now firmly in his horny era, and we're all totally here for it.
“Sometimes I really forget that there are straight people in LA,” Sivan said, in an interview with The Guardian. “I have almost exclusively LGBT people around me. That instilled a sense of confidence in me – that I have every reason to be proud of who I am.”
It’s hard to articulate how powerful it is to have queer role models such as Troye Sivan. For young LGBTQ people to be able to support and idolise a successful musician who not only shares a lot of their experiences, but also sings about them - it’s a total game-changer from when pop-stars had to remain in the closet for fear of damaging their career.
Sweat: Troye Sivan's sexed-up tour
Simulated blowjobs, smoking hot dancers, and undeniable horniness.
This was faggotry at its finest. Get into it!
Got Me Started
Gordon von Steiner - who also directed the video for Rush - shot this one in Bangkok. There's a bit of a Lost In Translation aesthetic, but also the affectionate observation that you see in the films of Hong Khaou. Everything is beautiful.
Got Me Started also gives us Sivan's first dance video. There's choreo from Sergio Reis and Mauro van de Kerkhof - the team who also worked on the video for Rush. This time around, Sivan is delivering the moves - he's clearly been spending some time in a dance studio. It's impressive.
Rush
The first single from the album was Rush - a total banger with a sexed-up music video that got everyone's attention.
The Insta thirst-traps
Dropping a thirst trap onto his Insta seems to be Troy Sivan's marketing strategy for his latest releases.
He teased the release of Rush with this one:
Then this scorcher - with the caption of "got me started" - is what he used to tease the second single.
It's a theme that he's taken all the way through into the art-work for the album.
