She was like, ‘Hey babe, what are the lyrics to the bridge of “COOL”?’ And I was like, ‘My song “COOL”? Why? What did I do? Why do you want this information from me?’ I just got so excited.” One day my phone lit up and she was just so casual and chill. At the time, it was such a fresh feeling of being swept up and really being in awe and so wide-eyed, like, this is not Australia. Similar themes about feeling a bit out of place in LA are still there. “Looking back, it's still completely relevant to me. Sometimes someone will write a melody where I'm like, ‘Are you sure that this isn't something else? This could be mine? We can call it a Troye Sivan song and have that melody on it?’ I fell so in love with that one specific melody.”
“It’s about that one person who can come just when you need them and can talk you down from a tough moment. I feel cool just by my association with her.” I still get so excited when the drums come in. I remember falling in love with the production. “The track is about protecting yourself, but also how that’s harmful when you shut off any potential love or relationship. I wasn't really thinking much about trying to make it poetic.” So it was very train-of-thought, flowing and conversational. There wasn't a fight, just this space between us that hadn't been there before and I couldn't understand why. I was going through a falling-out with a friend, which never really happens in my life, so it was weird. I had been in LA for a bit at that point, and we all bonded over the fact that we felt like we were missing something back home in Australia, New Zealand, our part of the world.” Just hearing her voice on the song literally made me want to cry. So Georgia put down some background vocals and I sang on top of them. I had a really hard time singing the vocals I think I was sick or something.
“This is probably my favorite song on the album and one of my favorite songs that I've ever been a part of. If it's not, whatever, we'll go home.’ I said to him, ‘Play the saddest chords you can think of.’ He played the opening chords of ‘FOOLS’ and we just ran with it.” At the end of the day, Pip was like, ‘Let's just write something in the last 20 minutes. I was still very unsure if I could do it, if I’d even made the right decision signing a record deal. At the time I’d put my entire self-worth on what I wrote that day. I remember writing a really bad song that day. “‘FOOLS’ was from a session with me and Alex and Pip Norman. It’s euphoric and scary at the same time.” I think it's such a special moment for any queer person, the first time they step into a queer space. It was about that hesitation and trepidation and fear, and the excitement and curiosity and wide-eyed joy to be around people who felt like me, and to be in a space where I didn't have to worry that I was going to get bashed for wanting to kiss a boy. It was the moment where my mind just expanded and exploded. I have a very vivid memory of walking in and having to peel my feet off the floor because the floor was so sticky. “It was my first time going to a gay club. That exploration and curiosity is something I feel so fond of now, and I actively try to push myself now to get there.” We tried everything we wrote so many bad songs. I just had to throw shit at the wall and see what would stick.
‘WILD’ was Alex's first time fully producing a song. We really got along as friends it felt like two kids hanging out with no adults around.
“I worked with Alex Hope, who is an incredible Australian writer-producer. I think it's the goal really, it's why we do what we do.” Below, Sivan talks through the stories behind each track on Blue Neighbourhood. “You don’t realize it until you have those moments where you meet someone and realize that a particular song or album or tour meant something completely different to them than it did to you. “One of my favorite things about music in general is the way that people apply it to their own lives,” he says. With its personal stories about his first experiences with love and with embracing his identity, the album cemented Sivan as a new queer voice in pop music. Only now in hindsight can I look back and really appreciate what a special time it was.”
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I was so new to everything, from the process of writing the album to doing my first TV performance, filming music videos, and doing promo. “I’d never been in a relationship before, so I didn't know what it was supposed to feel like. “As a whole, it was about my first relationship and its breakdown,” he says. Blue Neighbourhood followed two years later. He’d already found fame as a YouTuber, and publicly came out as gay on the platform in 2013. The Johannesburg-born, Perth-raised singer-songwriter was 20 when it came out. “I look back on it with such joy and pride,” Troye Sivan tells Apple Music of his debut album.
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