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Troye Sivan for i-D Magazine
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"I was gay as hell in real life, but I wasn't out in public," Troye says today, in London for the European leg of his Blue Neighbourhood tour. "I would open my Twitter app and almost tweet about Zac Efron and then not. And I would think, 'Why am I doing this? Why do I care so much? I don't feel like my audience is going to...'" Of course, Troye's reasons for caring ran much deeper than his audience would have guessed. As well as his sexuality, Troye had been hiding the news that only two months earlier he'd signed a dream deal with EMI Australia
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"To be honest, I still haven't figured out why girls come to my shows and act the way they do," he says modestly, of a reaction befitting any pretty teen idol. "For me, it feels more like friendship than anything else. Whereas for someone like Justin Bieber, maybe it's more of a sex symbol thing. I feel like they just want to wrap me in a blanket, you know? Take me home."
"When I got signed by EMI I was as skeptical as anyone else," Troye admits. "I was like, 'Why is this record label signing me? What do they want from me? What are they going to try and turn me into?' I'm very, very lucky that there wasn't any of that at all."
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So how have other artists reacted to how he got his break? "I guess it's just different and maybe some people are a bit uncomfortable with that," he says carefully. "I didn't have to sing in bars or ship my demo tape off to record labels. But at the same time, I spent a really really long time making videos, editing videos and trying to build a community online. What's going to happen, going forward, is more and more people are going to come from online and soon you won't even know who has and who hasn't.
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King of Everything. Such an inspiration to the YOUTH 
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