we've been living in Troye Sivan's blue neighborhood for some time now
from our movie screens, to our YouTube screens, to our iPods
Troye has touched many parts of our lives with his unique filmmaking, quirky humor, and unique soft synth sounds
here is the evolution of Troye Sivan
Troye Sivan Mellet was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
on June 5th, 1995 but moved to Perth Australia
with his parents Sean and Laurell, and siblings Steele Tyde and Sage when he was two years old
Troy started singing and acting at a very young age
making it to the grand finals of Star Search
in 2007 at the age of 12
and also landing the lead role in Oliver! at the Regal Theater in Australia
while in Oliver! Troy also took part in telethons
actually he initially started his YouTube channel to upload his telethon performances
as well as covers
at the moment I'm 6 sorry if it's not my best
but I'll give it a try here it goes
In my dreams
children sing a song of love for every boy and girl
he put more and more production into the covers as years passed
and well, he killed it
if I said my heart was beating loud
if we could escape through the crowd
if i said i want your body now
would you hold it against me
cause you feel like
paradise and I need a vacation tonight
it only took Troye a year to EASE into the movie business
being cast in a West Australian short film Betrand The Terrible
Boo!
settle princess
don't call me princess!
what have you got for me today
in February 2008 he landed the role of
young James Howlett a.k.a young Wolverine
in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
James
there are things you don't understand
Don't!
I need him to know!
it was around this time that Troye released his first independent EP
Dare to Dream
you sit in silence in the shadows
you don't complain or criticize
in July of 2009
Troye successfully auditioned for the lead role in Spud
a film adaptation of South African author John Van De Ruit's
book of the same name
Troye went on to eventually film two more Spud films
the character even earned him a nomination for Best Lead Actor in a feature film
at the South African Film & Television Awards in 2011
I can't
why not?
I'm just a spud sir
oh, we should probably mention Troye starred in the movie alongside fellow YouTuber
Caspar Lee
I was like obviously doing YouTube he was doing Spud, he also did YouTube
but he wanted, like, to do more of it
can we talk about the time Casper Lee joined Troye's family for Shabbat though?
yeah, Casper came to one of my family's Friday night dinners
that was fun we ate Challa and we drank Jewish wine
did they say anything about me?
yeah they said that you were a lovely guest
No!
they did
what is your mom's name?
Laurell - tell Laurell I love her! I will
Troye started regularly posting to YouTube in 2012
posting covers, rant videos, sketch videos
and eventually venturing into filmmaking
hi my name is Troye - I'm 17 and I live in Perth, Australia
I was born in Johannesburg in South Africa but I moved here when I was like 2 so...
I don't really remember much from that. I like to sing, make music, and act
the same year he dropped his second independent EP June Haverly
in June of 2013 Sivan was signed to EMI Australia a Universal Music Australia label
which he kept a secret until a year later
in August that year Troye took a big step and came out
in the form of a video on his channel
and now on August 7th, 2013
I want you guys to know that I'm gay
it feels kind of weird to have to announce it like this on the internet, but um, I...
feel like a lot of you guys are like
real, genuine friends of mine
a year later Troye followed up with a second part to the now iconic video
that inspired and moved so many of his followers
first let me preface by saying that
coming out is 100%
without a doubt in my mind the best decision that I've ever made in my entire life
shortly after in July 2014 Troye dropped Happy Little Pill
the lead single off his major-label debut EP TRXYE
which held a place in his heart for a variety of reasons
so that's the first single it's called Happy Little Pill
and I wrote it on an airplane and it's pretty dark, but somebody quite close to me had
just sort of started to take anti-depressants and stuff like that and...
then I got the LA and you weren't there
so it was like lonely as shit
you we're away, you we're like in Michigan or something
so, I just had like no friends and it was horrible so um...
it's kind of about like, loneliness and the different ways that
people cope with the things that are going on in their lives
TRXYE landed him the number 1 spot on iTunes and over 55 countries and in a week
debuted at number 5 on the billboard 200
2014 ended up being quite a year for him times even named him one of the most
influential teens of the year
he can't help it the people love him in fact so much that they voted his tongue
in cheek collaboration the boyfriend tag with Tyler Oakley for Teen Choice's
choice web collaboration category
the video currently boasts a modest 9 million views and counting
Troye was pretty modest about their win
in 2015 Sivan made us go WILD with his second official EP...
...Wild
Troy supported the EP with a music video trilogy dubbed Blue Neighbourhood
which told the story of a blossoming relationship with his tunes
Wild, Fools and Talk Me Down
leave this Blue Neighbourhood
never knew lovin could hurt this good oh
and it drives me wild
Troye actually talked to us a bit about casting for the heavy trilogy
we we're going to shoot the videos in LA and there was going to palm trees and shit
in the background and it just didn't feel to me like the story took place in
Australia
plus we ran out of time and I was like can we go shoot the videos in Australia
and so we went to Sydney which is amazing but casting wise made it like a
million times more difficult and so we were casting we were doing like casting
sessions for these boys we had like three days and so these other like
really buff, beefy 20 year old guys were coming in and just looking
ridiculous plus they have to be okay with kissing another guy
yes they had to like have some acting experience and like it actually became
really really difficult that I ended up reaching out to a friend on facebook that
I remembered that I had and so that's my friend on Facebook
the EP served as an introduction to his debut album Blue Neighbourhood which
dropped December of 2015
why Blue Neighbourhood you ask? Troye explains it best
Blue Neighbourhood is a lyric from the song called Wild that i wrote and it's "leave this blue neighborhood"
and I think originally it started off with like, so I'm from Perth which is like
a really really really lovely place and I'm sure that you know you're from, well
San Francisco's beautiful but you know it's like sometimes where you're from
can be because it's so nice and because it's so caring and warm and loving it
can be sometimes a little bit kind of suffocating and you want to get out a
little bit you know, and so it started off as that leave this blue
neighbourhood and then I realized that like in my head all of the stories all
of the songs that I'd written take place in in this blue neighborhood place that
I had kind of like built up in my mind we're all of the houses look the same
and everything and I'm yeah i just kind of like built up this picture in my head
of what it was and and it just made sense to call to call the album that
the album sent him around the world for the first time on a trio of Tours
pretty good for a YOUTH who started on the interwebz
and when the lights start flashin like a photobooth
and the stars exploded we'll be fireproof
the third most popular YouTuber from australia
with over 4.2 million subscribers
it's no surprise everyone is a FOOL for Troye Sivan
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