-Our next guests are each two-time
Grammy-nominated musicians and pop icons.
They're about to embark on their joint tour,
"Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Present: Sweat."
Tickets are on sale now. Please welcome back to the show
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan, everybody.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
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So happy to have you both here. -Thank you.
-You are back on the show,
but this is the first time we've chatted.
Charli, you were here 10 years ago.
-Ah. -There you are.
Troye, you were here eight years ago.
And now we're so happy to have you here together.
How are you both? -Good.
Our looks have changed quite a lot -- fashion.
-Yeah, yeah. -That's the thing
with pop stars -- the looks change.
-Yeah. -So, I have to ask.
You guys are going on this tour together.
-[ Laughs ] -How did you first meet?
-The first time -- So, actually, I saw you
before I met you, at, um, a festival in the UK.
I went and watched Charli perform.
I was, like, front row.
Charli looked at me. I got starstruck.
-[ Chuckles ] -Charli, do you remember
looking at Troye in the front row?
-No. -Okay.
[ Laughter ] -Fair enough. Um, no.
-There were probably like 25 people there, though,
so I know it definitely wasn't a sold-out show.
-I was, like, singing everywhere.
I loved it. -Was it sold out, though?
-Like, no. -No.
-Like, not at all. [ Laughter ]
-No. Yeah. But, um, no. And then the first time
we actually met was at Charli's house.
Charli had a house party, and somehow I ended up there.
-Okay, this is it. It was in LA?
-It was in LA. -Okay.
And, Charli, did you throw good house parties?
-Yeah I did. They were -- They were kind of like --
I mean, I don't want to -- They were kind of famous.
-They were iconic. They were iconic.
I had heard a lot about them.
That's why I was really excited to, like...
-Tell me some of the iconic details of a Charli XCX party.
What was the location? What was the house like?
-It was like a castle. -Okay.
-Yeah, it's like an old kind of Tudor house.
I don't live there anymore. -Okay.
-It was, like, an old Tudor house.
A little bit scary. -Spooky vibes, for sure.
-Yeah. -Okay, this is --
Let me just say, this is sounding very iconic.
-Yeah. -Spooky old castle. Great.
-Occasionally, the police would get called.
-Okay. -My neighbors hated me.
-Did you ever mend it? By the time --
Do you think that when you left, they were like, "Good riddance,"
or they were like, "You know, we were wrong about her"?
-No. [ Laughter ]
They were like, "Bye!" Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-And so you go to this -- You sort of get invited to --
Did you know, before you went there,
that these parties already had this reputation?
-Yeah, I'd heard about the parties.
And then I think I went, I don't know,
with my boyfriend at the time and, um...
Yeah, I don't remember, like, much of the party.
I remember meeting you in the kitchen.
-Yeah. I didn't know you were coming.
I was quite starstruck when I met you.
-Really? -Yeah!
I was like, "Oh, my God, Charli Sivan's in the house!"
-Was this a normal thing at your parties?
Are they so iconic that a lot of times
people would just come into the kitchen
and you'd be surprised and excited?
-Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I definitely had, like, a few parties
where, like, someone would come up to me and be like,
"Do you know about the person whose house this is?"
And I'd be like, "Huh?"
And they'd be like, "Oh, have you not heard about him?"
And I was like, "Tell me more." And they'd be like, "Oh,"
and then they'd, like, say this really crazy story.
And I'd just be like, "Totally."
[ Laughter ] You know?
-Did you -- your parties, were you sort of managing the party?
Were you, like, in charge of -- -Barely.
But I was just -- It was always quite messy.
-Okay. -It wasn't very chic.
It was, like, messy, like -- -Just, like, messy castle party?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
You know the vibe? -Sure.
I was invited to a lot of those. -Yeah.
Next time. There's always the future.
-There's always the future. -Yeah.
-Now, this is -- I've heard you guys describe, uh,
you want this tour to feel like a rave,
and you guys both had a lot of, uh, raves in your past.
And this is the part that I find very endearing.
You both brought your parents to raves
when you were younger. -Yeah. My parents --
I started playing at raves when I was younger.
Um, I had a Myspace.
And this guy on the Internet was --
It sounds really shady, but he --
he would, like, hit me up and be like, "Hey,
do you want to come and play these raves?"
I was like 14 at the time. Super weird, actually,
now I'm saying out loud. -The more you're talking
about it, the worse it gets. -Yeah, yeah.
So, my parents, very, you know, like, intelligent of them,
they were like, "We will take you to the raves,"
which I was kind of, you know, frustrated by
because I wanted my rebellion. -Sure.
-But we would basically go to these raves together,
and I would perform and they would kind of stand in the back
being very, very supportive. -I would assume,
when you're going on, in a rave, it's fairly late in the evening.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first time we went,
we didn't know that. -Okay.
-Because we -- I grew up in the countryside.
I wasn't really, like, immersed in, you know,
like, club culture, growing up. It was, like, the countryside.
Um, and so we went at, like, 9 p.m.,
and no one was there, and we kind of helped them set up.
[ Laughter ] And then it wasn't until,
like, 3 a.m. that I went on, and that's when I learnt, like,
"Oh, like, we were really early."
-Yeah, rave promoters are historically bad
at preparing you for what you're about.
-Yeah, yeah. -Did you -- What about you?
-I've never taken my parents to a rave.
My parents have, um, shown up against my will before.
And also, no, I'll, like, be traveling,
and I'll get a video in the family group chat
of, like, my mum, like, barefoot in some place,
just, like, going absolutely insane to music.
-You'll find out after the fact that your mom was at the rave?
-Yeah, yeah. -Wow!
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. No, she loves it.
She like, um -- Like, honestly, the harder the music,
the more she -- the more she likes it.
-Yeah. -Good for her?
-What do you call -- Isn't that, like, a --
-A bush doof? -A bush doof.
-Oh, is this -- Oh, bush doof. This is a great question.
This is about an Australian term.
-Yeah, yeah, so like, a doof is like a party.
Like a, "Doof, doof, doof." -Yeah.
-And then a bush doof is a doof in the bush.
Like, in the -- Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Duh. -Self-explanatory.
And that's in "Mad Max" -- that movie "Mad Max."
There's the Doof Warrior. Did you know that?
-Oh, I didn't know that. -Yeah, that's what he's called.
And I once called him the "Dufe" Warrior.
And everybody in Australia were like, "Dude,
have you never heard of a Doof Boof?"
And I was like, "No." -Right.
-Doof bush, doof bush. Bush doof?
-Bush doof, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so close.
-So close. -There's also --
I don't know if this is a slur in America.
It's fine. -Go for it.
-I could say -- No, no, no, a poof doof is a gay party.
-Okay. -'Cause -- Okay, never mind.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Um... [ Laughter ]
Now, uh, I have a -- I have another question for you guys,
which is you, how do you guys feel
when you're out in public and you hear your music?
-I love it, personally. [ Laughter ]
-I personally, I'll, like, run-to-the-bathroom vibes.
I don't love it.
-You don't love when you hear your music?
But, Charli, is it true that you've actually seen Troye --
-Yeah, I was going to say this isn't true.
-Okay. Because we've been
out together recently. We were at a Grammys afterparty.
And your song came on and it was very much like Troye,
middle of the dance floor... [ Laughter ]
...Dua Lipa being, like, number-one cheerleader,
kind of being like, ♪ I feel the rush ♪ vibes.
And you were in the cute little beret in the middle.
-Yeah. -It was a moment,
and you loved it. -No. Okay.
So, yeah, I was -- I was going to be like humble vibes
and say that I hate it. I really do.
[ Laughter ] But then that night, like,
not to brag, but I got nominated for a Grammy this year.
Congratulations. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Whoo!
-Um, and so that night, I was like, "Okay, you know what?
Like, don't, like, try hide, don't go to the bathroom.
Like, this is, like, really sick."
And also it was like, Dua is in my face,
like, singing the lyrics and stuff like that.
So I was like, "Okay, yeah, I should probably just, like,
pretend to be chill about what's going on right now."
-Yeah. I think you were right to celebrate that moment, I think.
-Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.
-That was a very, very smart choice.
You also were in -- You were portrayed, I should say,
in an episode of "SNL" recently.
Timothée Chalamet played you. -Yeah.
-It was about a woman who had a medical condition
where I guess she just, like, saw you dancing.
And you did not know this was coming.
-I did not know it was coming.
They had, like, e-mailed to get the song cleared...
-Sure. -...for "SNL."
So I knew that there was a chance that it was going to --
that the song was going to be on "SNL."
But I had no idea -- Like, I had no idea any details.
I did a Google search and saw that Timothée was hosting,
and so I was like, "There's no way."
Like, "There's no way." [ Laughter ]
But then, even so, I thought maybe it would be,
like, sort of the butt of a joke
for like one second or something.
I had no idea that it was going to be, like,
a whole... -A full sketch.
-...skit like that. Um, and then, yeah,
I made it my Instagram pictures. -Yeah.
So you changed your profile picture to be that.
[ Laughter ]
"By the way, like..." [ Cheers and applause ]
-The thing is, though,
now some people don't know that that's not me.
And, like, you know, with work and stuff like that,
I'll get sent, like, some creative deck or whatever,
and the brand will, like, include a picture --
like, all these beautiful pictures of me.
And then there's, like, Timothée in the wig.
[ Laughter ] So, yeah, it's awesome.
-You also -- We're talking, you did raves early in career.
You performed at raves. You were a busker, 10 years old?
-Yeah, I used to sing, like, in the city.
Um, just, like, on the street in Perth.
I hated it so much.
-But you say that about hearing your own music, and now --
-No, no, no, this, I genuinely -- I really --
No, I really, really detested it.
-So, why did you do it? I mean, I'm so impressed
to, like, work there. Did you hate, like,
the performance anxiety, or just which part of it?
-I just did it for money, honestly.
Like, um, no, no, I really, uh --
It was, I guess, good experience and stuff.
And I think it was, like, fun to try and get people,
because when you start, it's so brutal.
People just, like, walk past you,
don't pay any attention.
And then if you can start to, like, build a crowd,
it's kind of fun, I guess.
But I did it like maybe five times and, um, it --
like, I made more money than I did at my bar mitzvah,
and that was, like, sick to me, so...
-It was very impressive. -That was cool.
-Um, so you guys must be so excited you're going to spend
the fall together, doing the show.
It seems like you really, genuinely get along.
-We do.
We were just saying, before we were coming out here,
we, like, don't know any of the info about the tour.
We were like, "When does it start?"
Who knows? [ Laughter ]
We're, like, supposed to be promoting it,
but you've got the info. -I've got the info,
and I'm going to venture there's a website
and everything. -I reckon there is.
Yeah, yeah. No, it's gonna be great.
It's gonna be so fun. -It was so nice
to have you guys on, almost 10 years ago,
but it has been even more lovely
getting to talk to you in person.
Thank you guys so much for being here.
It's just been the best. -Very nice.
-Charli XCX and Troye Sivan, everybody!
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