- This is Troye Sivan, and I'm in isolation
in my parent's house in Melbourne, in their spare bedroom,
and I'm about to play Truth or Wine.
I have a nice nondescript wine.
I actually don't know what this is,
I stole it from my parents,
and we'll see how much I have to drink of it.
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What was the most recent text exchange you've had
with Ariana Grande?
Let me see how salacious this is.
Oh, that's not that bad. (bell dings)
It was that guess the gibberish game
that everyone is doing on Instagram.
One of the ones is her name.
Aria Macarande.
Aria Macarande, that's me trying to say her name,
and so I sent that to her and we were laughing about it.
What is the last photo saved to your camera roll?
Interesting question.
Oh, honestly okay,
it's a screenshot. (bell dings)
I'm not gonna show you what the,
just gonna flash it for like one second,
of a DM with a company
that I really, really like their product,
and I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna try it,
and then I messaged them saying,
like I didn't ask for anything,
but I was like, "I love your product."
Just to see what would happen,
and I think they're gonna send me some (beep).
Last year, you revealed your celebrity crush
was Shawn Mendes, is the crush still alive?
I've gotta be real, (bell dings)
the crush sort of faded
because he and Camila started going out,
and Camila's a very good friend of mine,
and I don't know, it just started feeling a little strange
to like publicly thirst for a friend's boyfriend.
I was just like, it's not a thing.
Do you have a FinStar, or an alt social media account?
- I do, I don't use it though.
I use the close friends feature a lot of Instagram now.
I used to have a FinStar, and I actually had it,
I had it for like two weeks maybe I used it,
and then I just got really over it,
and it wasn't fun, so yeah.
But I do use close friends a lot.
Who is the biggest name celebrity
you have written a song about?
I'm gonna drink for that one. (bell dings)
Definitely gonna drink on that one.
Is there a video from your early YouTuber days
you wish you could scrub from the internet?
Almost all of them. (bell dings)
Like, I wish I had them on private
so that I could watch them, and like show my kids one day.
God, there is some really awful stuff up there.
Which song of yours do you think deserved more love
from the general public?
I'm just gonna sip my wine
just 'cause I want to. (bell dings)
It's really good.
I wish "My My My!" got a little more love.
I think that would have been fun for me.
But I mean, I'm like so stoked at how everything went.
If you were gonna party with Charli XCX,
what would you bring to the pre-game?
Poppers. (bell dings)
Have you ever slid in to a fan's DMs?
- 100%. (bell dings)
But that sounds bad, it wasn't like that.
Like, I DM with people all the time,
so no, not like that, in all honesty, no.
Why did you delete the Tweet,
the hashtag #bopsaboutbottoming
after your single "Bloom" was released?
My mum has Twitter. (bell dings)
I mean, it didn't work if she saw it.
Both of my parents have Twitter actually.
And I'm pretty sure they have me on Tweet notifications.
If I ever delete stuff, half the time
it's because I'm worried about those two people,
rather than the other however many people.
Do you have any unreleased songs with other artists?
If so, with who?
Duets, like not really. (bell dings)
I have written a lot with other artists.
Rufus Wainwright, we did a song that never came out,
Mark Ronson and I have worked a couple times,
Julia Michaels and I have worked a bunch.
I don't know, there's like plenty of people.
I've also a pitched a lot of songs to artists
to like very little success.
A lot of artists have my demos like on their phones
or whatever, and some of them cut the songs
and some of them didn't, but yeah.
If you could guess star on any TV show,
which show would you pick?
What TV shows have I been enjoying recently?
(beep) I don't know.
Can I go back in time.
I was gonna say "Friends," (bell dings)
just 'cause it's like such a cultural moment.
Like I remember when people used to guest star on "Friends."
Like the Brad Pitt episode of "Friends"
is literally singed in to my brain,
like I can picture him now.
So I guess that, 'cause it's like such a moment.
What was the inspiration
behind your single, "Take Yourself Home?"
I think I was just like kind of in a bad place
at the time of writing it.
I was just feeling really like unsettled, and lonely,
and like yeah, I just kind of had this moment
where I had to have a really honest conversation
with myself where I was like reevaluating almost everything
in my life, and so I wrote it in to the song.
And then the crazy thing is that like now
with everything that's going on in the world,
I feel like a lot of people are having to do that right now,
and have those conversations, and be like, wait, whoa,
like everything has been pulled out from under me right now,
what is actually important to me, what makes me happy,
who makes me happy, you know, what are the things
that I'm gonna stop taking for granted,
like you know, all of those kind of questions
and conversations that you're having with yourself.
I think it's all kind of like in the song.
Is "Take Yourself Home" a stand-alone single,
or part of an upcoming album to be released?
I wouldn't say it's part (bell dings)
of an album, it's part of a like project.
I know that sounds so wanky,
but it's like longer than an EP, shorter than an album,
so I don't know what you wanna call it.
What's one pop song you can't turn off right now??
The honest answer, (bell dings)
and this is so lame, but it is one of my demos.
I got a new version yesterday,
so I've been listening to it
like to kind of suss out how I've been feeling
about all of the production changes,
and I'm really, really, really excited about it.
If you could only listen to one pop queen's discography
for the rest of your life, whose would you choose?
Robyn. (bell dings)
Right, I mean like, feel like that's the correct answer.
Like what else could you say, you know?
I feel like she would just keep me on my toes,
she would keep me interested, Robyn for sure.
Can I brag about one quick thing, speaking of close friends?
The other day, Robyn put me on her close friends list
on Instagram, and it was like literally,
I would say the number one highlight
of my entire life so far, so I did just wanna brag
for a second about that.
Thank you for having me.
I hope you learned a little bit about me.
I will by choice finish this glass right now,
but stay safe, stay home.
I have a new song out, it's called "Take Yourself Home,"
and I'm also selling t-shirts actually,
and all of the proceeds are going towards covid relief,
so go to my website troyesivan.com.
I love you guys, thanks for watching.
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