I don’t think this album would be what it is without, like, meeting someone at the pool and going on a date, or like, the real life that is so detached from everything else that’s going on in my life.” It’s easy to feel like you’re growing just because you’re busy, but I think sometimes you really grow in the moments in between.” In Melbourne, he says, “I had this time, for the first time in like eight years, to meet people and figure out what else I like to do besides work. “Melbourne is all over this album and all over these experiences. Troye Sivan: Something to Give Each Other review – one of the year’s most distinctive pop albums Sivan – by then a global star who had collaborated with Ariana Grande and Charli XCX, and featured in 2018 conversion therapy drama Boy Erased – put down roots in Melbourne, Australia and embraced the thrill of totally new experiences, like those chronicled in One of Your Girls. Led by two singles, Rush and Got Me Started – whose rowdy, racy video clips immediately went semi-viral – it’s a party album inspired by a 2020 breakup and the years that followed. It’s a bit self-deprecating.” ‘I was so inspired by how unafraid Lil Nas X was to take up space.’ Photograph: Stuart Winecoffįun, sad, romantic, conflicted: those feelings seep through Something to Give Each Other like sugar slowly melting at the bottom of a mojito. “It probably comes from childhood of not feeling like enough, and then seeing these guys that I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I want to be you or be with you, but I’m completely ‘hearteyes’ for you’ … I found that a lot of the time after these experiences, I’d be kind of selling myself short or allowing myself to be the secret. “Sometimes those experiences had left me feeling great, sometimes they had left me feeling really sad,” he says of One of Your Girls. On a video call from London, Sivan pre-emptively apologises for the garish red light bathing the room he’s in – although it’s a familiar setting for the singer, whose most recent acting project, the maligned Weeknd-Sam Levinson HBO show The Idol, seemed to be lit exclusively in such a hue.
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