Now here’s an anthem to really get behind, or in this case, in front of. Or maybe it’s best to start on top of it and get comfortable.
Out Australian pop star Troye Sivan has released his new single just in time for Pride season, and in a since-deleted tweet, revealed his inspiration: bottoming.
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We hope this bottoming beat tops the chart. Sivan has proven to be an enduring talent and the new song, “Bloom,” is sincere, catchy and endlessly remixable for dance floors.
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The singer had previously stated “it’s about flowers” in a promo video ahead of the release:
But when the song and lyric video dropped online, he added this comment on twitter:
He either had a change of heart or a frantic call from a publicist (we’re guessing the latter), and the tweet was soon deleted.
But not before the internet could have a field day, of course:
Troye tweeting about bottoming, making it trend and deleting it right after #BopsBoutBottoming pic.twitter.com/RJ1zosnQIJ
— gisse (@BigSalami) May 3, 2018
we love an honest bottom that’s open about bottoming ! #BopsBoutBottoming
— jorja would love some flowers ? (@ilysbaylee) May 3, 2018
#BopsBoutBottoming IM SHAKING MY NON EXISTENT ASS
— bri! ? send flowers!! ? (@bloommellet) May 3, 2018
ITS ABOUR FLOWERS MY ASS #BopsBoutBottoming pic.twitter.com/AyC2qrYwK0
— audrey ; flowers pls ? (@hopeIesscity) May 3, 2018
“its about flowers” #BopsBoutBottoming pic.twitter.com/2WxSRt7BUy
— kaitlyn ? flowers, t ??? (@lovetoIust) May 3, 2018
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Listen to the full track below:
Here are some of the lyrics — interpret them how you will:
Tell me right before it goes down
Promise me you’ll
Hold my hand if I get scared now
Might tell you to
Take a second, baby, slow it down
You should know I, you should know I
I bloom just for you
Nuttypea
Requisite “blossom” joke
crowebobby
He did an impromptu limerick about “having no gag reflex” on one of his YouTube videos, so evidently the boy is versatile. Ain’t nuffin wrong with dat.
Nuttypea
how does giving head make someone vers?
crowebobby
If you’re into oral and anal, I’d say you’re versatile. No?
tnguy
Bobby, in the most modern gay lexicon, a gay male who prefers only being the receptive partner is a bottom, while one who prefers to insert is a top. However, a gay who enjoys both topping and bottoming is referred to as ‘vers.’ These are noun descriptors.
‘Oral’ top or ‘oral’ bottom, for instance, are adjective descriptors which describe ones role in an action within sex, but still modify and pertain to the same role one plays (receptive or insertive, top or bottom). For example, if I am an ‘oral top’, I get boys to fellate me, but I do not fellate them.
Understand?
crowebobby
Okay. I guess I should have said at least he likes both oral and anal activity. I assumed that was “versatile” as opposed to “vers,” which appears to have a very specific meaning. I’ve met queens who would shriek in horror at the idea of oral, while they proudly declare themselves bottoms, and queens who’d suck anything but would never indulge in such filth as anal sex. Since I’m close to a centenarian, I bow to your greater knowledge of the current activities and their nomenclature.
CastleSF
You have to admit that performing oral sex on another man is kind of feminine and that’s probably why a lot of men don’t like to do it.
LABrad
CastleSF I don’t like doing it… and not because I think it’s feminine.
I consider it to be foreplay and a waste of time.
Smith David
…I’m dead! At all these comments. LOL.
queerjubu
In Japan, before the arrival of the West, taking a young man’s virginity was called “plucking the chrysanthemum.” And flower images abound for the rosy ring at the bottom. A nice poetic reference, if hastily denied.
WorldOfRobert
Is it strange that my eyes watered when I read this ?
xxanderxu
The same saying exists in Chinese, at least in Taiwan
johnnymcmxxx
I, for one, def do not want to see his awesome blossom. He is gross.