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Troye Sivan has discussed the relationship between his sexuality and his commercial success to date as a pop star in a new interview.

Speaking on a podcast, the Youth singer said: ‘Part of me wonders sometimes if I would be more commercially successful if I wasn’t gay or not as “in your face gay”.

The star has scored two top 10 albums in the US – 2015’s Blue Neighbourhood and 2018’s Bloom. His EPs – 2014’s TRXYE and 2015’s Wild – also went top 10.

Troye made the comments on British singer and 2001 Pop Idol winner Will Young’s Homo Sapiens podcast.

‘We don’t have a queer Taylor Swift’
On it, Troye says: ‘I have a great management team and great label, and I haven’t had this conversation with anyone else in fear because I hate it, hate it, hate it when pop stars sound bitter, or blame any sort of lack of success on anything other than for themselves. I don’t want to come across like I’m saying that at all, but this just feels like a safe space where we can have an open conversation.’

He furthermore continued: ‘Part of me wonders sometimes if I would be more commercially successful if I wasn’t gay or not as “in your face gay”. I think we’re in a really interesting time in music right now where we are seeing more and more queer artists pop up, but we don’t have a queer Taylor Swift, we don’t have a queer Rihanna, or a queer Beyoncé.

‘It’s not there yet I don’t think, though it feels very exciting to be where we are, I still feel like there’s a really tall mountain to climb. Sometimes it can be frustrating because I’m giving my all and not having some humongous radio smash all over the world.’

‘Is the world actually ready?’
He also added: ‘100% could just be on the music, maybe the music just isn’t good enough, maybe the world is obsessed with hip hop right now and I’m making the furthest thing from hip hop. It could be a myriad other things, but a part of me wonders sometimes, is the world actually ready right now for what I’m trying to be?’

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/...y/#gs.g5an9t2b

Sam Smith sweetie..

[Liam-]

Yeah, sausage smoking is the reason you’re not hugely successful hun

[Wizard.]

Sweetie it’s cause your songs are crap

[Braden]

Literally know none of his songs, but know he's gay.

[Smithy]

You’re a basic white twink that’s only famous because daddy is rich and bought you studio time and a record deal, if you were straight you’d have even less success because not even the gays would be checking for you

[Mitchell]

King

[Rob!]

I thought he was more successful because Tyler Oakley is gay myself.

[Oliver_W]

I hate when people use the word "queer", it's so grating...

Anyway, I only know him as "that gay singer", I don't even know any of his songs.

[RileyH]

He's so annoying

[Greg!]

Originally Posted by Riley.

Sweetie it’s cause your songs are crap

Tea omg...

His best song is 1999 and that’s only bc Charli wrote it

[Jordan.]

The truth of the matter is you're **** and you know you're **** and THAT is the truth of the matter.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

The truth of the matter is you're **** and you know you're **** and THAT is the truth of the matter.

Rachel Lester <3

[Shaun]

all of these hateful bitches overlooking Bloom smh

it was better than Sweetener and THAT is the truth!

[parmnion]

What I don't get is why gay people demand equality yet always bring up the gay card if anything isn't going their way...this cretin is the worst I've seen today, so far.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Maybe dont do interviews with Gay Star News?

[BBUKAUSFAN]

Dam so much hate, and pettiness. Take a step back from your keyboards and take a long hard look at yourselves.

Troye has released so many great songs and had made huge success with his music so step on back.

[TomC]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I hate when people use the word "queer", it's so grating...
.

Why?

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by BBUKAUSFAN

Dam so much hate, and pettiness. Take a step back from your keyboards and take a long hard look at yourselves.

Troye has released so many great songs and had made huge success with his music so step on back.

And yet he’s the one complaining?

[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by parmnion

What I don't get is why gay people demand equality yet always bring up the gay card if anything isn't going their way...this cretin is the worst I've seen today, so far.

Do we? Always? I must be doing Gay wrong, I'll try harder.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by TomC

Why?

It's only really used by weirdo activists who think they're "reclaiming a slur", when to the majority of people it still is a slur. I don't get why some people add it to the end of LGBT, when it just means gay. There's no need for it!

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by parmnion

What I don't get is why gay people demand equality yet always bring up the gay card if anything isn't going their way...this cretin is the worst I've seen today, so far.

how can they even begin to ask for equality without bringing up the ‘gay card’??? dnhfusocnfj reading this made me dizzy

[armand.kay]

but in regards to Troye, his music is ****.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Lostie!

Do we? Always? I must be doing Gay wrong, I'll try harder.

[Wizard.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

You’re a basic white twink that’s only famous because daddy is rich and bought you studio time and a record deal, if you were straight you’d have even less success because not even the gays would be checking for you

This! Also has he never heard of Elton John or Freddie Mercury? Bitch please! And why do we need a gay Taylor Swift? Oh because he wants to be earning hundreds of millions instead of just a few millions.

[Wizard.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

It's only really used by weirdo activists who think they're "reclaiming a slur", when to the majority of people it still is a slur. I don't get why some people add it to the end of LGBT, when it just means gay. There's no need for it!

Yeah, but, Queer is a cultural term, and that's a fact! There is queer music, queer literature, queer art, even, y'know, queer porn!