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Troye Sivan for BULLETT Magazine
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Troye Sivan will be an unavoidable name in 2016. The 20-year-old Aussie has spent the past few years building up a 3 million-person YouTube following (his 2013 coming out video has 6 million views), which is a platform that’s allowed the young talent to realize his dreams of becoming a global pop star. This narrative is a post-Internet phenomenon we’ve all heard before (see Justin Bieber), though Sivan is well-armed with far more than just fleeting digital hype.
For one, he offers a much-needed gay perspective in an otherwise heteronormative pop landscape—something that’s naturally seeped into his songwriting, which largely centers on the plights of teen love and self-discovery. Sivan’s debut full-length album Blue Neighbourhood is the manifestation of these stories, wrapped in a web of emotional synth-pop that fuses the dreamy melancholia of Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die with the self-aware smartness of Lorde’s minimalistic Pure Heroine.
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Let’s talk about your songwriting process. How do you approach this?
“I approach it really personally. I always want to write as real and honest as I can. I don’t approach it thinking, ‘This is is a song I’m going to release to the entire world.’ I approach it like I’m writing in a journal. I’m a little bit of a dork, so I like word games with rhyming and phrasing. That’s always fun for me, trying to come up with a new, fresh way of saying something to keep the listener interested—to keep it smart. It’s essentially a game. You’re like, ‘This is what I want to say and I have one line to say it and I need it to rhyme with X. How can I do this in a really cool way?’ I write songs with my friends, too, as like an afternoon pastime.”
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You co-wrote several songs with Allie X on Blue Neighbourhood. How did that collaboration come about?
“I met Leland, who’s another artist, through a mutual friend. He used to date one of my friends and we ended up writing together. We were setting up a writing session and I was a big fan of Allie’s music. Leland had written with her before, so he was like, ‘What if I bring Allie to a session?’ I was a little nervous and starstruck, but she came and we ended up writing together. It was this little team—Leland, Allie, myself and Bram Inscore—and that was maybe a year and a half, two years ago. Now if you look at the album notes, that writing team wrote like half the album. I’m o obsessed with how fearless [Allie] is, how creative she is, how absolutely ******* crazy she is. She’s such a cool person, she’s hilarious and she has an absolutely killer voice.”
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What was it like developing your sound on Blue Neighbourhood?
“It was stressful. When I was younger, I was so easily excited by music. I’m so easily swayed to be like, ‘This is the coolest thing I’ve ever heard’ and it makes me want to make music like that. Especially when the album was pretty much done, I was in the car and heard The Weeknd on the radio. I had a meltdown and was like, ‘Oh my God, we have to scrap the album. I need to make music like this. The Weeknd is so sick, I need to do music like him.’ I gave it like two days and thought about everything, but I was like, ‘No, my album is one hundred percent me, it’s right.’
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I made Blue Neighbourhood over the period of a year and a half. Had I made it in three weeks or even two months, like some people do, you would’ve heard more of what I was listening at that particular time. But since I made it over such a longer period of time, almost all my influences, big and small, came into play. Everyone from Robyn to Lily Allen, these are people who’ve inspired me at one point. All of those influences peek through in my music and found their way onto the album. It’s the most ‘me’ album I could’ve made.”
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Do you feel the need to represent the entire gay community?
“No, you’re asking for trouble if you want to do that. I can’t represent everyone and I never strive to. I just want to do my part and I understand it’s a huge battle that we’re all fighting that consists of a million stories. One of the most powerful and helpful things I can do is just really, really go for what I want. Because I am gay and if I succeed, I feel like that’s one of the coolest messages I can send to my followers. Don’t let any of this stuff stop you. Go for it, you can do it—you can make it happen
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Kind of relatively old but I don't think anyone posted this.
I love him so much 
More of the interview over here: http://bullettmedia.com/article/troy...to-pop-prince/
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Its ok king I forgive you
