Troye Sivan joins Zane Lowe in-studio on Apple Music 1 to discus new song 'Got Me Started' from his forthcoming album 'Something To Give Each Other’ due out next month. He tells Apple Music about the origin of the track, sampling Australian duo Bag Raiders, the music video and meaning of the song, and creating his new album coming out of a breakup.
Troye Sivan on 'Got Me Started' and Sampling Australian Duo Bag Raiders...
It was one of the first songs that we wrote for the album and it just stuck around. They [Bag Raiders] were like, "By the way, we've had hundreds of requests and we've never said, ‘Yeah' so don't f*** this up." And I was like, "I promise you, I'm going to make a video. It's going to be sick.” Like, I really believe in this. And I also, I think it's tacky when people sample something like out of term, you know what I mean? And I really, really, really didn't want to do that. I wouldn't be doing this if I felt like that's what I was doing. You know, it was something that came in the studio naturally. I started seeing the sample laughing because I was like, there's no way that they're ever going to let me do this. So while we were in the studio, I texted my A&R from Australia. And obviously because we're all Australians, it was like within 20 minutes he had reached them and I get this text with the stem in my phone. I'll never forget the moment I like played it and it just came out so clean completely like solo. And I was like, oh my God. And we put it in and it worked.
Troye Sivan on The Music Video For 'Got Me Started’ and the Meaning of the Song…
There’s this sort of reprise when the synth comes back at the end in the video when I'm like, you know being pulled up the building and there's this new like drum pattern and to me it it was perfect. It was the like the euphoric moment of that total like freedom of realising that you're completely like fine on your own and that also this is not a moment of like sadness, but a moment of endless possibilities.
Troye Sivan on Making His New Album ’Something To Give Each Other’ Coming Out of a Breakup…
I had a lot of friends have that conversation with me when I was going through my breakup. "Oh, but you know, you're gonna be okay, and there's so many people out there…” it's hard to hear it at the time, and you know, you kind of doubt it. And then I lived it, and it was this journey that took way longer than I thought it was going to, way longer than it probably should have. But I lived it, and it just felt so mind-blowing to me that they were right. So in a way, I almost want the album to serve as like me having that conversation with everyone else as a friend being like, “girl, I promise you.”
