Troye Sivan's Releases New "Bloom" Track

Troye Sivan joins a growing number of young pop artists, like Kehlani and Tove Lo, who are unafraid to be candid about their queer sexuality. Pop music has a long history of encoding queer themes in music coy enough to be palatable to straight audiences, but Sivan has come to poularity in an era when being direct about your sexuality won’t blacklist your music from the Top 40.

Sivan’s latest single, “Bloom,” is all about living in the present. 

He claims the song is “100 percent about flowers,” but many point to the pop songs subliminal message of queer sex not just a good time, but as something natural, pure, and innocent: two boys rolling in the grass inside their own private paradise.