Troye Sivan says his new album, She's the Best, was born out of a crack that opened after his last run of success. The Australian singer says he came off a Grammy-nominated album, a long international tour, arena shows with Charli XCX and acting work on HBO’s The Idol feeling publicly fulfilled but privately alone.
That shift is why people are looking at him now. She’s the Best is due out Oct. 9, and Sivan is presenting it as the next chapter after Something to Give Each Other, his 2023 release that earned three Grammy nominations. He says the new record moves between club-ready songs and quieter, more intimate tracks, a split that matches the way he describes the period that produced it.
Sivan said his last album was a hypersexual, highly connected record written when he felt like a citizen of the world. Then the travel kept going. He said he wrapped a headlining tour that took him from Portugal to Sydney, filled large venues alongside Charli XCX and sharpened his screen presence through The Idol. The success did not end the loneliness. He said there was a disconnect when he kept going back to the hotel by himself and felt deeply lonely much of the time.
He has turned that experience into the frame for She's the Best. Sivan said the album mixes bombastic tracks with songs that feel like the interior of his mind, and he said the first single's video stars Nicole Kidman. He said he and Gordon von Steiner chose her because everyone in the world could understand what they were trying to show, and he said he asked her to appear after they worked together on Boy Erased in 2018. His point is clear: the new album is not a victory lap, but a reckoning with how achievement can coexist with isolation.
The song itself reaches back further than the tour and the nominations. Sivan said it honors the feminine spirit, which he said he grew up fighting, and he linked that to the shame he once carried around his own femininity. He said his parents were not homophobic, that he knew he was gay and always had known, and that doing drag for the first time unlocked something for him. That makes the album’s title track feel less like a single and more like a statement of where he is now.
What remains unanswered is which lines in She's the Best came from the people in his life and which came from the solitude he says followed him home. But the shape of the project is already visible: a fourth studio album built from the gap between public momentum and private loneliness, with Kidman fronting the first visual and Oct. 9 set as the date that chapter reaches listeners.
