Troye Sivan discusses feeling lonely and isolated despite his success as an artist, particularly after attending several high-profile weddings of fellow pop stars like Charli XCX. In a conversation with a journalist, Sivan reflects on societal pressures to get married and settle down, noting that seeing friends in the music industry marry has made him question his own timeline. The article focuses on how Sivan's new album "She’s the Best" addresses these feelings of alienation and longing for connection, contrasting it with his previous image as a party-loving pop star.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
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Across much of his fantastically strange new album She’s the Best the Aussie pop star is in a funk, alienated in hotel rooms and yearning (often quite desperately) for The One.
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I have a theory on all this, I tell Sivan.
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I’m trying to explain it to him while a record label publicist sternly messages me to “keep the discussion focused on music”, as though it isn’t all the same thing.
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It’s the weddings, I say.
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“Yes,” says Sivan.
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“No …” he replies.
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(My bad, I should’ve known that, considering Charli and Swift’s icy detente.
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Pop stars have to pick sides, too.)
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“I was,” he replies.
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That’s what I’m saying: it’s a lot of weddings to go to within a year.
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All those weddings can get to a singleton’s head; leave you wondering what you’re doing wrong.
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Especially at the tender age of 31, which Sivan turned in June
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“I think that’s definitely part of it,” says Sivan.
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“I grew up in suburban Perth and then lived in a very tight-knit Jewish community in Melbourne.
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Everyone turns 26-ish and gets married.
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That’s just what we do!
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But I felt no pressure from that because I had other-ised myself so much by moving overseas and being gay and whatever, so I was like, OK, I don’t need to follow the same timeline as everyone else.
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“And then, all of a sudden, my music industry friends who are busier than me are getting married and it’s like, OK, that’s not an excuse any more.
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They have crazier work schedules than I do and they managed to get married, so I’m like, f---! What do I do?
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Maybe I do need to get on it.
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I definitely started to feel the normal kind of societal pressure, where I’m like, oh, it’s time, for sure.
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Sivan, ever the jet-setter, is speaking from a hotel bed in Austin, Texas.
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Later that evening he’ll take the stage at the Austin City Limits festival, where headline act Charli XCX has gifted him several minutes of her stage time to debut songs from his new album.
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Much of She’s the Best looks to reset the public perception that attached itself to Sivan following the wild success of his chart-topping 2023 album Something to Give Each Other.
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That album, with its clubby hedonism and post-lockdown celebration of Melbourne’s queer nightlife, established Sivan as pop’s ultimate party boy.
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His subsequent Sweat tour – a co-headlining gig with Charli XCX at her “Brat summer” peak – found Sivan deftly at pop culture’s apex, where slime-green celebrity cameos and Apple cam-dances went viral every night.
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From an outside perspective it seemed crazy: non-stop parties, glitz and decadent glamour.
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Each time we’d see Sivan he’d be at a Met Gala or walking at Paris Fashion Week or, yes, at a wedding, with another beautiful celebrity from my fantasy list of famous friends.
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” says Sivan.
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“Like who?”
I mean, Charli, obviously.
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Rachel Sennott and Lily-Rose Depp (his co-stars in the much-maligned The Idol; the latter also sings in French on She’s the Best’s closing track).
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“Yep,” he says.
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“She’s part of it, too, yeah.
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Love Ayo,” says Sivan.
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See what I mean?
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What’s it feel like being in those spaces?
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When Sivan’s doing the Sweat tour, for example, does he realise he’s sitting in on a generation’s coolest party?
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“Definitely,” he says.
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“That was a special time, and I think we were all very aware of how special it was while it was happening.
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It was this kind of ‘stars aligning’ moment.
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