In his new album, Something To Give Each Other, Australian pop star Troye Sivan uses a series of intimate encounters he experienced, some with men who considered themselves straight, as musical inspiration. The music video “One of Your Girls” serves up Sivan in full drag with musician Ross Lynch as his love interest (pictured above) in an exploration of what it might be like to be the type of person these men seemed to want. https://youtu.be/ZhGl8McrOHo?si=I5MqUoQAV3HMXDMC From PEOPLE:
After nights spent with men who enjoyed connecting with Sivan but didn’t identify as gay, he felt they shared a special bond in a “safe space” to explore. “And then other times I would feel really empty afterwards, or feel like the secret — or feel ready to throw myself in, and maybe that wasn’t what they were ready to do,” he explains.
Sivan didn’t look to deem the situations good or bad while writing “One of Your Girls,” because many of them were ultimately positive meetings. Instead, he wanted to figure out what was attracting him to queer-curious men, eventually realizing it may stem from his own internalized homophobia.
“A lot of the boys that song is about, I feel like they probably would’ve bullied me in high school, and now here they are paying me attention,” he says. “So, at the sacrifice of my own self-worth, I’m throwing myself at them, and then you’re really just at their beck and call, and that can sometimes not feel so great.”
Sivan told PEOPLE he wanted to create a “fantasy version” of himself – the type of person these ‘straight’ guys seemed to want to spend time with. Ultimately, he says his drag “look” was inspired by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. It’s quite the transformation.
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Troye Sivan in “One of Your Girls” (screen capture)
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