Troye Sivan has announced his fourth studio album She's The Best, the follow-up to 2023's Something To Give Each Other, out Oct. 9. He's shared the title track and gorgeous video (visual poem?) starring drag legend Sasha Colby and AMC icon Nicole Kidman. Kidman and Sivan previously worked together in the 2018 film Boy Erased. Sivan worked on the track with Leland, George Daniel, Jack Antonoff, and Styalz Fuego.
"She's The Best" is unexpected. After a few listens, it becomes a revelation. Understated and poetic, the track finds Sivan reciting spoken-word lyrics about an anonymous femme muse — one who could be our best friend, a celebrity, or the one who resides within all of us. Sparse piano accents the words, which touch on thin cigarettes, cum-stained dresses, and takedowns of incels. At its heart, the song honors women — particularly trans women — who work hard to be themselves, and to be seen and valued for their ambition, passion, and creativity.
In a press release, Sivan shared about the album:
She’s the Best is a painting that captures my life in all of its moods and colours. It explores the high-octane highs of the last few years, and the solitude and longing that sat underneath. It’s chaotic, layered, organic, troubled and alive. It feels like the truest and most creative version of myself I’ve ever shared. 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.
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Troye Sivan reunites with his ‘Boy Erased’ costar Nicole Kidman in the video for ‘She’s The Best.’ It’s the title track to the Australian pop star’s new album, out Oct. 9, and he wrote it with George Daniel, Jack Antonoff, Leland, and Styalz Fuego. [?: Ernesto Distefano/Getty, Phoenix Johnson]
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She's The Best is out 10/9 via Tokky's/Interscope. Pre-order it here.
