Troye Sivan ProfileThe Music chooses one song every week as its Power Pick, shining a light on ONE Aussie song that we think has the potential to be the next big Australian chart hit.
Our Power Pick committee consists of Richard Kingsmill (consultant and former triple j Group Music Director), Maddy Rowe (Nova nights announcer), Nic Kelly (Hit Network nights announcer), Ash McGregor (host of Listen Up with Ash McGregor), Triana Butler (host on Joy 94.9), Matty Morris (Super Radio Network nights announcer), and Matt O’Gorman (Triple M Homegrown host).
It probably goes without saying that one of the year’s biggest albums is going to belong to Troye Sivan, who is gearing up to release his fourth full-length record – She’s The Best – next month.
Having already teamed up with the likes of Nicole Kidman for the video accompanying the record’s title track, Sivan has now upped the game even more, dropping the euphoric club anthem Party, and pairing that too with an ambitious video clip.
Weaving in a sample of Madonna’s iconic Music, the track is designed by the cyclical feeling of a weekend spent moving between the clubs, keeping the titular party going as the endless vibe continues on. In a truly Australian manner, it’s heavily inspired by bush doofs and the feeling of belonging on the dance floor.
“Dance music sounds very different on a dance floor than it does coming out of your laptop speaker,” Sivan says. “The repetition becomes almost hypnotic, and I wanted to play with structure in that way.”
The track’s accompanying music video sees Sivan working with longtime collaborator Gordon von Steiner to craft a grand period piece filmed in England, offering up a world of opulence and revelry as it pays tribute to the role of partying in queer culture.
“When Gordon von Steiner and I were talking about the video and the song, we kept coming back to the idea that partying is actually quite sacred, especially for queer people,” Sivan explains. “Nightlife is often the first place a queer person finds themselves in a room where they're not the minority, so it becomes a really formative and liberating space for so many of us.
“And it letting loose is innate to humanity, which I believe it is, then surely people have always partied. We wanted to know what that looked like.. So we went back in time and threw one.”
“We are well and truly entering a Troye Sivan summer!” Ash McGregor says of Sivan’s new heater. “Party, the second taste of his forthcoming album She’s The Best, is a hypnotic, euphoric ode to losing yourself; and another step into his avant-garde dance era.
“It’s almost the Lady Gaga ‘no sleep, bus, another club, another club’ quote in song form. With a cheeky nod to bush doofs, a sample of Madonna’s Y2K classic Music, and his brother Tyde Levi having a hand in production, the track feels like a mosaic of Troye’s world: nostalgic, playful, and unmistakably Australian.
“But beneath all the maximalism, there’s something innately human about Party. It captures that very specific feeling of disappearing into a crowd, losing track of time, and whirlwind nights out. It’s Troye at his most liberated and it sounds like the beginning of an endless summer.”
CHART UPDATE
It’s another week of Australian celebration on the Radio Monitor Hot 100, with G Flip holding steady at the pointy end with Bed On Fire for the second week in a row.
It looks like it may have some competition for next week, however, with Temper City's Self Aware jumping over Olivia Rodrigo's stupid song to round out the podium for the current chart. On the Australian front, Sonny Fodera and Becky Hill's Say Something jumps three sots to a new peak of No. 16, while Josh Fawaz's Like A Prayer rework falls seven spots to No. 14.
CYRIL's Breathless drops a spot to No. 26, while Tame Impala's Loser rallies by one place to sit at No. 28, and Dracula lifts by two to occupy No. 31. Fodera's Let Me Be In Your Arms drops five places to No. 35, while last week's Power Pick – Yes Boone's Nosebleeds – debuts at an impressive No. 36.
Lottie McLeod's Wednesdays At The Waterloo jumps 27 places to No. 40, but Genesis Owusu and Ladyhawke hold the most impressive rise for the week, with Falling Both Ways rising 53 places in just one way to reside at No. 42. The Tullamarines' Flight Path also jumps 31 spots to No. 43, while Sivan's She's The Best drops down to No. 47 to round out the top 50.
On the ARIA Singles chart, there's very little Aussie representation once more, with only Tame Impala holding it down for the locals, sitting at No. 9 with Loser and No. 21 with Dracula.
