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

Sivan's career consists of a bit of crack or crown.

i would rather never have sex again than listen to Sufjan Stevens’ sappy pablum from CMBYN. Awful music.

recut the last scene with 'visions of Gideon/is it a video'? replaced by 'oh, my genitals/i'm a janitor' imo

my intergluteal cleft is bleeding

Sivan's career consists of a bit of crack or crown.

there's an official extended mix streamable now but i feel like at 3:36 it's still like half as long as it should be?

“Got Me Started” is the new single. I think it’s okay on first listen tho the melodic line that comes in during the chorus is wild familiar, can’t place it though.

you mean the "shooting stars" sample? it's very funny here, just a completely different vibe to the rest of the song

song is pretty nice though

Yeah the sample feels a bit on the nose in an Australian context, though I guess deliberately and unashamedly so, and as such it sort of fits with the general 'twink in a Balenciaga t-shirt' vibe Troye is generally going for right now

it's quite strange because it's a very four-to-the-floor filter house sample but the song is breezy 2-step

lol see this is how little i know about this sort of thing— i know that shooting stars song and have heard it many many times but had no idea what it was or what it was called cuz it has generic bar song all over it

it was a minor hit here before really blowing up years later as a meme internationally

it got a lot of play in whatever hipstro clubs I was going to when it came out stateside like alongside classixx and treasure fingers and these sorts of things

yeah i mean i worked for XLR8R at the time it came out so i definitely heard it but probably lumped it in with a lot of other stuff that i didn’t like— that filter house sound got really tedious real quick.

Ew. This song is excruciating.

Say more?

The title of this song reminds me of that Molly Shannon bit, “don’t get me started, don’t even get me started”

i like "got me started" a lot... my interactions w/ this sample have been very minimal. the production is a cool melding of like 2 step and organ house. also dig the way the chorus vocals are treated.

i feel like one of the few gay guys alive who finds him non compelling to the point of boredom as a visual artist but musically speaking is quietly one of the more compelling pop stars going from a taste & execution standpoint. curious if he can string it together for a whole full length

"i feel like one of the few gay guys alive who finds him non compelling to the point of boredom as a visual artist"

this is a lot of words to say that you're not into twinks

to each their own in that regard— fwiw he does have mild Marfan syndrome, which does tend to yield…twinkier results whether or not one wants them. in his case, he’s embraced it.

as far as aesthetics beyond just the bodies in the videos, i think that one of the elements that feels interesting to me is that there is a mainstreaming of certain queer signifiers via his videos and etc. while i can ramble about assimilation til my face turns blue, the unapologetic queerness of the videos is refreshing, particularly because we know it’s not just some pandering shit.

i like the new song too, cautiously anticipating the album

great album

also, this video!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGl8McrOHo

that video is amazing but also… cue the discourse lol

have had the album on repeat for the past couple of days, so good

I've warmed up to "Got Me Started" and this thing has a handful of strong tuneful mumbly jams.

lol only just noticed the Star of David he wears in the video which is always but esp in the context of this past week... a choice

my my my

Lol @ the Rush - "Power Windows" tee.

I like this song the least of the singles so far, but the video the best

was a bit iffy on it at first, but now am obsessed with the song, I guess the video helps

My fav on this was actually the closer, "How To Stay With You." Pretty solid record. Much better than the last one.

Is there something missing about this video? Makes me feel more comfortable to show off my own chicken legs but aside from that I'm... not gonna watch it a second time

Really digging this thing after walking, exercising, and driving to it for a week.

I am taking a break from grading papers -- one of my students wrote about the rejection of hedonism in "Got Me Started" (he was describing hedonism and I was like...there's a word for that :)