Troye Sivan Wants His New Album to Make a Cultural Impact, Not Just a Commercial One: ‘This One Is Going to Age Well’
"The heartbreaking thing would be if [the album] went by without any sort of cultural impact," the Australian pop singer said.
Troye Sivan's upcoming fourth studio album, She’s the Best, is not driven by first-week sales, according to the Australian pop star. During an appearance on Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, Sivan admitted he isn't concerned with the numbers, stating, "I honest to God could not tell you what my first-week sales [are]."
Instead, he explained that the most important metric to him is whether the album makes a cultural impact. "The heartbreaking thing, like rather than it only [selling] however many thousand or whatever, would be if it went by without any sort of cultural impact," he said, emphasizing that his previous album Something to Give Each Other became a significant queer-pop moment.
Sivan's new album, which he describes as the most potent distillation of the musical references that shaped him, is set to be more expressive and chaotic, a departure from his previous "perfect pop" approach. The album will be released on October 9 and follows the title track, "She’s the Best," which was released on August 14.
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