Troye Sivan She’S The Best: The Australian pop virtuoso’s fourth album drops today as a kaleidoscopic love letter to queer joy, celebrity cameos, and unexpected sonic risks.
Troye Sivan is no longer the bedroom pop prodigy whispering confessions to a laptop camera. His fourth album, ‘She’s The Best,’ arriving today, is a maximalist departure that unites Nicole Kidman’s spoken-word interjection, Charli XCX’s hyperkinetic energy, and a sample from Madonna’s vault into a single coherent statement about desire, fame, and the particular electricity of loving someone who matters. It’s ambitious in ways his earlier work, for all its craft, never quite attempted.
The album’s sonic architecture hinges partly on a Madonna sample that’s been years in the clearance, a move that signals Sivan’s intent to build directly from the lineage of pop’s most consequential voices. Rather than hiding behind production flourishes, he’s naming the inheritance. Kidman appears as herself, not an actress playing a part, her presence functioning as both cultural blessing and inside joke. Charli’s appearance places the record squarely within a conversation about avant-garde pop that’s been escalating since “Brat” redefined what a pop album could be this summer. These aren’t gimmick appearances. Each collaborator amplifies a specific emotional frequency Sivan has spent the record developing.
What distinguishes ‘She’s The Best’ from the calculated celebrity-studded albums that litter mainstream pop is the specificity of its emotional core. This isn’t a collage built for chart positioning. Sivan has spent enough time in the industry to know how to make a viral moment, but the album reads as genuinely personal, a document of someone processing love, visibility, and the peculiar vulnerability of making art after you’ve already won. Troye Sivan’s ‘She’s The Best’ feels like an inheritance, a baton passed between generations of queer artists who understand the power of pop as a language.
