Troye Sivan is the most recent star to drop by the BBC Radio 1 Stay Lounge, and whereas he introduced the “Rush” together with his latest hit single, the 28-year-old star additionally heightened feelings with a canopy of Billie Eilish’s introspective music from the Barbie soundtrack, “What Was I Made For.”
Backed by a keyboardist and guitar, Sivan mused the thought-provoking lyrics, “I used to drift, now I simply fall down / I used to know however I’m undecided now / What I used to be made for / What was I made for?”
The singer is presently gearing as much as launch his third studio album, One thing to Give Every Different. The gathering described as a “celebration of intercourse, dance, sweat, neighborhood, queerness, love and friendship” will drop on Oct. 13 by way of Capitol Data.
The album, which follows 2018’s Bloom and Sivan’s 2020 EP In a Dream, options beforehand launched singles “Rush” and “Obtained Me Began.” Sivan wrote the album with Oscar Görres (Taylor Swift, Sam Smith), Ian Kirkpatrick (Dua Lipa, Britney Spears), Leland (Selena Gomez, Ava Max) and Styalz Fuego (Khalid, Think about Dragons). “It’s not misplaced on me that a few of you guys have been following alongside since i used to be the child w the stye in my eye in that first video,” he captioned a collection of movies posted to Instagram in June. “Btw — I didn’t imply to take 5 years to make this album.”
Watch Sivan’s cowl of Eilish’s “What Was I Made For” under.