Troye Sivan welcomes after hour contemplation on his fourth album She’s the Best released on October 9, 2026, exploring themes of loneliness once the party’s over, paying homage to all the women and girls in his life that never left his side, and an imaginary lover he wonders even exists.
She’s the Best: Love is Community, Love is Friendship, Love is Romance
Deeming the album “uglier” in comparison to his previous releases, Troye continues to move his audience with sentimental lyrics hidden behind hyperpop and uplifting genres, creating an unsettling melancholy that most young people relate to. Spending time with your friends as they get dolled up, sharing spaces with incredibly meaningful people from all walks of life while heading to parties in high spirits, but only realizing how damning the silence is once the party’s over and eventually everyone goes home. To their own places, their own devices, and their own isolated head spaces they so desperately avoid.
In Every Version, She’s the Best
In a twelve track studio album, Troye takes us along a thematic journey throughout each track, pre-releasing “She’s the Best” on August 14, 2026. Featuring actress and producer Nicole Kidman alongside drag queen and beauty pageant competitor Sasha Colby, Troye dedicates the title track as a love letter to all the women and girls who brought an immense amount of love, adoration, and community into his life, filling in the gaps where “Boys have come and gone, work has come and gone, but I have always, always had my girls.” and claiming that “divine feminine is everywhere” on his Instagram.
Troye Celebrates the Divine that is Women in His Official Music Video Below.
Party in the Castle Like It’s the 14th Century
Released on September 17, 2026, “Party” became the second single pre-released, sampling Madonna’s “Music (2009)” and including the iconic “Music makes the people come together”. Narrated by British actor Sir Ian McKellen, Troye carries himself throughout the music video in medieval grab, riding on a noble steed to reach his destination, a sultry partner to rendezvous with. Other actors and performers get a taste of their own sensual pleasures, that everywhere you go is a party, that the party doesn’t ever stop, the party simply changes rooms.
Troye Embarks on a Medieval Journey to the Next Party in His Official Music Video Below.
Manifesting a Love That’ll Be Fucking Forever (FF)
The music video carries a different energy in comparison to its prior releases, deeply moody, dark, and unapologetically taking up space. Troye takes a moment to address his future lover, a man who doesn’t exist. With lyrics captivating and incredibly sensual to compliment the visuals throughout the music video, Troye and Swiss on-screen partner Felix Mayr navigate emotional highs and lows in intimate displays of love and devotion, “FF” gives us permission to exist in the present moment, realizing that romance is a culmination of experiences along with additive layers of awareness and unavoidable doomerism for queer romance in an slowly recessive society. As a fellow queer artist, this very track brings up a duality in its title. “Fucking Forever” in a deeply immersive romance that although time is fleeting, such lovers will find each other again in another realm of existence. In another light, “Fucking Forever” is definitive, it’s real, it’s allowing queerness to take up space despite historically being shunned and misunderstood, and it’s rooting itself in its essence and power.
Troye’s Passionate Love Story unfolds in His Official Music Video Below.
A Love Letter to All the Art Lovers
With each relisten of She’s the Best from start to finish, the tracks ground themselves in each replay, rooting themselves in their genres, lyrics, and overall themes. Hitting all the marks through hyperpop and dance, finding its way to ballad and somber, Troye’s devotion to all the people he met along the way: his creative team, his collaborators, his industry companions, his communities, and his fans. Solidifying his place in the pop genre, Troye Sivan continues to leave behind a legacy carved specifically for him, creating art with intention of being understood, and in turn, the very communities he was shaped by beckoning his calling and arising to the occasion. There is a special place out there for everyone to gather, exchanging ideas and exchanging hearts, but most importantly, reminding everyone that the party doesn’t end once the DJ shuts down and the doors close. The party remains in our hearts and in our minds, owing it to ourselves to participate in the celebration that is life, that is living, that is art, the simple act of the art of living.
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