A lead single that sounds like a manifesto
Troye Sivan’s new single ‘She’s the Best’ is a lead track and title song that introduces his fourth album as a personal, female-centered portrait of love, friendship, and emotional contradiction in contemporary pop music.
Troye Sivan new single ‘She’s the Best’ is not just another glossy rollout; it is a line in the sand. Released as the first taste of the She’s the Best album, set for 9 October, it arrives packaged as both title track and thesis statement. Instead of doubling down on club-ready hedonism, Sivan opens this era with a song about a different kind of devotion: his intimacy with the women who hold his life together, and the complicated, sometimes chaotic feelings that orbit them. In a pop field crowded with love songs aimed squarely at romantic partners, choosing a platonic, queer-coded bond as the opening chapter is a bold move. It signals that this new album is less about one story arc and more about a layered self-portrait, full of contradictions he refuses to tidy up.
Nicole Kidman turns a music video into an event
The Nicole Kidman music video for ‘She’s the Best’ works as Sivan’s loudest declaration that this era is about women as both muses and co-authors. Kidman does not appear as a stunt cameo; she anchors a visual crowded with essential divas, from Sasha Colby to internet and art-world figures who extend Sivan’s growing, feminine universe.
Putting Kidman front and center deliberately collapses cinema and pop music 2024’s internet-driven camp into one frame. Her reunion with Sivan after their earlier screen work turns the video into a meta conversation about his evolution as both actor and musician. Opposite Kidman, Sasha Colby brings drag royalty into the story, making the clip feel less like a heteronormative fantasy and more like a queer salon. According to one review, the music video “features such essential divas as Oscar winner Nicole Kidman,” turning visual hyperbole into the point. The message is clear: if past eras were about clubs and boys, this one is also about the women who raised, inspired, and mythologised him.
A different kind of love story for a fourth album
Where many lead singles aim for universal romance, ‘She’s the Best’ chooses specificity: a gay boy’s adoration for his girlfriend, equal parts stan behavior and genuine friendship. The lyrics blur the line between worship and camaraderie, capturing how queer communities often describe their closest women friends with the same intensity reserved for pop idols.
This is where the She’s the Best album begins to look like a reset. Sivan has described the record as a portrait shaped by emotional highs, loneliness, desire and the search for connection. That framing pushes the new era away from tidy coming-of-age arcs toward something messier and more adult. The emphasis on women as a lifelong constant deepens that shift: they are not background characters but the gravitational force keeping him balanced. In pop terms, this is evolution, not rehash; instead of repeating past formulas, Sivan is expanding what a Troye Sivan love song can be, making platonic, queer-coded devotion as central as romance.
Inside the sonic pivot and its pop context
The credits for Troye Sivan new single read like a statement about where he sits in pop music 2024. Co-writing with Leland, George Daniel of The 1975, Jack Antonoff and Styalz Fuego, Sivan pulls together several strands of contemporary pop sensibility into one track. That collaboration web, strengthened by his Sweat Tour co-headline with Charli xcx, points to a deliberate ambition: to stand at the center of the genre’s evolution rather than at its fringes.
He calls the forthcoming album chaotic, layered, organic and alive, embracing contradictions instead of sanding them down. That description aligns with what ‘She’s the Best’ already hints at: a record that refuses a single mood, instead swinging between euphoric highs and private, unresolved feelings. In a streaming climate that rewards formula, Sivan’s pivot toward a looser, more emotionally complex sound reads as a risk, but also as the logical next step for an artist who has already helped redraw contemporary pop’s codes. If this is the opening chapter, the rest of She’s the Best promises a more candid, less polished version of Troye than any we have heard so far.
