troye sivan "my my my!" -- 'one of the first great songs of this young year' or overpraised twink mediocrity??

Sivan appeals to the sort of woman like the one I met a decade ago who boasted about how many gay boys were her friends.

Hmm I don't know how true that general archetype is these days, at least in my world of gay-friendly straight people - the kind of women i'm thinking of would not just have more gay male friends than straight male friends but would move in circles where that is totally unremarkable (literally - it would not occur to anyone to remark on it).

The separation really comes down to how people intersect with gay ~culture~ rather than gay guys per se - you can have brunch with a dude every Saturday morning and be pretty close to him while being effectively ignorant of his Saturday night habit of going to parties wearing a jockstrap and harness.

that's my life!

As for your first paragraph: it's a musty archetype for sure; the mid 2000s were the last time when a gay man would even allow himself to be subjected to this tokenism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ay4S61byZo

i like this one more, the synths are gorgeous

Fucking hell, this is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrMAfMbZOmg

Sivan is the weakest part of this song

His voice is too wan.

man do I dig "Bloom."

Yeah, that song really grew on me.

Also in me, etc.

HO

Just for you.

Dance To This is really excellent, would have been right at home on the last xx album

My My My is the weakest of the tracks released so far and it's still pretty good so I've got very high hopes for this album

The video was released today -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhxhNIQBKJI

I find the song to be very slight -- pleasant, but barely there -- but guess it's just not my style

"bloom" almost made me feel bad about the thread title. almost.

"Bloom" is his best single.

the whole album is pretty good, doesn't blow me away but a very solid and enjoyable pop album

"animal" is a good song but it's a little hard to buy it coming from him

He's better singing about plums and quoting Smiths songs

I am an animal with you

a chinchilla

I still don't understand how "Dance to This" got such a tepid reception

I...like this album a lot.

Dance to This is one of my favourite singles this year and I love its "Pass This On"-rip video too

plot twist

this album is good

the singles really don't stand out as singles to me but w/in the context of the album they work much better... the final 3 songs are pretty killer

not a dud-free album but definitely good! i like "seventeen" a lot and "bloom" is reaching that territory for me where it can plunge me right into bliss or melancholy alike (cf "teenage dream" the song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LniYWYmNXiM

new single isn't a big pop banger or anything but i really like it

I like it a lot too, works very well in these times, in a (thankfully) roundabout way.

Also, it’s tempting to hear this as “take your cellphone”.

the outro switchup is great

Yeah, it could go on for much longer. I’m almost hearing an amapiano remix in my head.

this song is weird and great

troye sivan "my my my!take yourself home" -- 'one of the first great songs of this young-ish year' or overpraised twink mediocritywhat??

New EP out yesterday, it's pretty good all the way through but I must highlight the follow-up single to the video posted above

"Easy" is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHqIhiFmEY

That's good.

i love this whole EP

that yelp after "this house is on fire", man

wait this is really good. probably more consistent than his album was, perhaps even better overall

it's a decent step up from the album which was solid enough

this is a really good record... last two songs especially

Yup. "STUD" is marvelous.

it's all delightfully slightly-left-of-centre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn4XQ9WweRY

new remix of "easy" featuring kacey musgraves & mark ronson. it's really good. the EP is still one of my favourite pop releases this year too

^^late entry into my EOY ballot, maybe. I already liked "Easy" but Kacey's voice is just so lovely on this.

Great video, I like the original version of the song more w/o Musgraves/Ronson tho

pretty much my thoughts also

Either I am becoming less resistant to twink mediocrity, or this is really good. I can't claim that it is remarkable in any way, but I find it rather graceful and pretty, and he sounds more invested, as a vocalist, than he's sounded to me on on other songs I've heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Z6w1D6zs0

It doesn't have much pizzazz but it's pleasant enough. I do admit that Twink mediocrity is one of my things, tho, so I am not the best judge

new single “Rush” is out today. video very NSFW.

i admit that i like this twink more and more— there’s enough Zoomer swagger and earnestness mixed in with the referentiality to older pop and cultural movements to make it palatable to me.

it starts off very promising but the chorus vocals are a very odd choice that completely throws it off

video is very suggestive but doesn't actually cross the line and so avoids being marked 18+ on youtube or anything