![]() ![]() It’s been so long since I released an album, and I’m really proud of the music, so I just wanted to give it the best runway that I could. The complete, honest truth is that I have been ready to release this song for a long time, and it was really a conversation of me surrendering to the powers that be, and being like, Okay, I trust you guys know what you’re doing. I also have to ask you about the timing, because there’s been some chatter online about the song not coming out in June during Pride, although you’ve been teasing it since before that. Sivan has embraced queerness in all its guises. Indeed, his oeuvre reads like a gay coming-of-age story: there are the nods to boyhood and coming out in the trilogy of Blue Neighborhood music videos reflections on the innocence of early sexual experiences in “Seventeen” and “Bloom” he points to the body-image challenges of existing as a gay man in “STUD” to heartbreak in “The Good Side” and the ache for love of “Angel Baby” and now the winds of liberation, sexual freedom, and confidence in “Rush.” There’s also his film work, as the angsty gay teenager in Boy Erased, or the high schooler who finds out he’s been exposed to HIV in Three Months. ![]() Sivan is part of a generation of young artists who have, since the start of their careers, unapologetically told their stories through the lens of their queerness. Ask the queer people around you, ask the straight folks who love being around us, or ask Troye Sivan, whose latest single, “ Rush,” released this morning, encapsulates the joy of queer community in the form of a sweaty, summer-y, gritty party anthem. ![]()
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