“My My My!” by Troye Sivan (Updated repost), Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Following Blue Neighbourhood , Troye Sivan released another collection of songs celebrating queer love in 2018. This time, Bloom was less about love in the abstract and more about sex. Songs like the title track dealing with anal sex, the Apple Music edition of the album's opener " Seventeen " recalling how the singer lost his virginity to an older man on Grindr when he was seventeen, to a song about his boyfriend who "Tastes like Lucky Strikes " may take a few listens to understand the euphemisms. SHINE ON, DIAMOND. Bloom holds an 85% on Meta-Critic , meaning that most reviews were favorable. In America, though, Sivan's music mostly is confined to the LGBTQ+ community, and Bloom didn't make a splash in the mainstream pop market. But looking at the promotion, Sivan's team clearly had the young star's sights on conquering the charts. A track with Ariana Grande , a performance, albeit a polarizing performance, on Saturday Night