Album Review: Troye Sivan – She’s the Best
Troye Sivan might be a familiar name to pop fans, but he’s one I’m coming to relatively fresh. The Australian singer first found fame through YouTube before evolving into a pop artist blending dancefloor euphoria with more introspective songwriting. His fourth album, She’s the Best, released via Interscope Records, follows 2023’s Something to Give Each Other, balancing the glamour of nightlife with loneliness, longing and the search for a connection that lasts beyond the party. So will Troye be a new favourite artist, or just another one to skip by on my Spotify release radar? Let’s find out!!
Kicking off with title track (and IMO the strongest on the album) She’s the Best has provocative lyrics and a feel of some of the releases from early 2000s UK dance/chill scene. Canada Dry next –which feels a bit… generic, but is followed by Party which is a complete mashup of 1990’s house beat with Madonna’s Music, all given a little 2026 spit and polish with Troye’s lyrics adding to the track. I Do This for You is surely influenced by a mix of 1990’s US boyband tracks and Detroit house, while Cowboy shows great musical atmosphere and lyrical echo in a track that can only be described as ‘bright’.
Embarrassingly begins with acoustic guitars in a very boyband-ish track about attraction, and this boyband type pop track weaves through (in various derivatives of) through Le Boy, and the slower, more sultry Sex Star. We return to the pop dance with a very commercial friendly DnB beat in Troye Meets World, and this leads us to the slower FF which is the slow-move love song of the album. Penultimate track Love So Big It Hurts reminded me of something take that would have released in the early 00’s, and we conclude the offering with Lost Time, featuring the French of Lily-Rose Depp, we have auto-tune on the vocals and atmospheric long synths chords throughout.
She’s the Best started full of energy and club land vibes, the quality of the tracks started to drop after the first couple of songs. We then totally changed tack, cutting the club chord and moved into what I can only describe as ‘boyband tracks’, and that’s when it lost me. There were a few tracks on that I liked on She’s the Best, but unfortunately they were reeled off pretty early on in the album, and I did find it a bit of a chore to listen to after the boyband switch… needless to say I preferred the club land section of the album.
