Here’s something that might make you feel better: Not even Troye Sivan is immune to the occasional date from hell.
In a candid new interview with PopCrush, 22-year-old Troye, who is currently nominated for favorite musician in the 2018 Queerties, recalls a particularly awkward date he went on a few years back.
He and the guy were hanging out when all of a sudden the dude whipped out his cellphone then started browsing guys on Grindr.
“It was a while ago,” Troye remembers. “I was like, ‘OK. I think I’m just gonna go home.’”
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Dating, Troye says, was a lot “scarier” back then. Now that he’s a budding superstar, however, the game has gotten a little easier.
But don’t get to excited, fellas, because he’s currently dating model Jacob Bixenman, and they’re totally in love.
“I am definitely a serial monogamist,” Troye says. “I don’t really know. I’ve only ever had a couple of relationships, but they’ve been one after the other.”
Here are some other highlights from the interview…
On how his sexuality impacts his artistry:
I’m gonna definitely continue to be honest in my music and keep writing from my perspective, which happens to be a queer one. And, of course, I wanna keep up any sort of activism work that I do, but I don’t know if I’m necessarily responsible for the conversation around my music being centered around my sexuality. I’ve never had a problem with it. I know some people do, because some people don’t wanna be ever boxed in as anything. I don’t really see the big deal because I am a gay artist, and I’m totally fine to be called a gay artist.
On what fans might be surprised to know about him:
I’m really low-key. I don’t party a lot. I really just like spending time with family and being at home and watching Friends. I feel like it’s the most soothing show in the world because it always just reminds me of my mom. We used to watch it together when I was growing up, so I feel it’s like a hug every time I watch it.
On how he wants to be remembered:
What I want people to remember me as is someone who loves pop music and someone who loves songwriting. And someone who was unapologetically honest about who I am, but also about what I want to say in my music. Through good or bad, through being boxed into something or not boxed into something or whatever, I write really personal pop music.
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Danny595
Yes! Monogamy and moderation from a talented guy. I’ve liked him ever since Happy Little Pill. After this interview, I forgive him for wearing nail polish.
CastleSF
Danny, anyone can say they are monogamous but do their actions back up their claims? He said he is a “serial monogamist”. What does that mean? Unless one deletes all online hookup apps from one’s smartphone, one is never to be considered monogamous.
Heywood Jablowme
22 year old “serial monogamist” = “dates” for at least two weeks before moving on to the next trick?
22 year old “serial monogamist = doesn’t do three-ways?
lol
Danny595
@CastleSF — When you are 22 and unmarried, it is expected that your monogamy will be of the serial variety. We can’t expect people, gay or straight, to make a life-long commitment in their very first non-marital relationship. You would like the very first relationship to be the perfect one that becomes marriage, but you can’t guaranty that. So the monogamy has to be “serial” almost by definition. When you get older and either get engaged or get married, the “serial” part goes away because you have arrived at the end of the series. Based on what I see with my friends, that probably happens at around age 28 or 29.
Now, of course, it’s possible to abuse the concept and have “serial monogamous relationships” that last a weekend. But this dude is 22, has been out for 5 or 6 years and has only had 2 relationships. He is the real deal, not a promiscuous loser trying to hide behind a monogamous label.
Also, as I read the above story, he is not on Grindr. It was the other fellow on the date who started looking at Grindr during their date.
CastleSF
@Danny. Our first relationship is almost always the most memorable one but one that’s probably least suitable for a long term commitment. I am not sure I can take seriously anything a 22 year old says about monogamy. There is no track record to back him up with but I think we both agree that he is on the right path.
Danny595
@CastleSF – Well, I agree with you that he is on the right track but that of course he could go awry in the future.
But I think he sort of has a track record because, even though he is only 22, he came out about 5 years ago and he is a huge celeb. He has been in movies, has had hit records and was just on Saturday Night Live. He has also been on Ellen and on The Tonight Show. In that situation, if he wanted to, he could have slept with hundreds of people since coming out. Instead, he has been with just 2. So that counts for something. It suggests that he isn’t just blowing hot air but that he really walks the walk.
He BGB
Someone who just met their Grindr date and then whips out the cell phone looking through Grindr, has an addiction to Grindr.
AnnMargretFan
I would not have even said “OK. I think I’m just gonna go home”… I would have just got up and left his loser ass sitting there.
frankcar1965
I get tired of all the “monogamists” who are monogamous until they’re not. You may be monogamous but is he? Probably not. I just may have screwed him and you don’t know it.
CastleSF
@frankcar. What an unkind person you are. It appears that you take pleasure in knowingly ruining other people’s relationship by sleeping with the cheater. Have you no shame?
ChrisK
@CastleSF. Please shithead. The guy that likes every single bigot that gets featured on queerty is crowing about shame. Pot meet your kettle.
batesmotel
“A budding superstar”?? LOL ahaha. Is that a joke? I’ve never heard of this guy until this article. That’s not a superstar. A superstar is someone known worldwide like a Michael Jackson or Madonna. And what the hell is a “Queerties” award? Never heard of it. Anyway, sorry this happened to him. That wasn’t cool of the guy. Sounds like he met the guy too fast before seeing if he’s legitimate enough and worth enough to meet. Then again, he met the guy on Grindr, he must be really new to this. Grindr is not the app to connect with quality men. He got what you get when you meet someone on Grindr. It’s like the bottom of the barrel so to speak. Not the brightest bulbs on that app. No offense.
alandraper
Actually, the article never says how Troye met his date. It may well have been on Grindr, or it might have been on Christian Mingle.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Why is “Favorite musician of 2018” is cluelessly lacking Tyler the Creator? Whether or not he explicitly spells out his sexuality (and he has but wasn’t believed) the theme is explored explicitly and beautifully in his GRAMMY nominated work — making him the BIGGEST non-straight name in hip hop: THE MOST POPULAR GENRE IN THE WORLD. He and the likes of Kevin Abstract (Brockhampton), Steve Lacy, Will Toledo (Car Seat Headrest), artists actually moving the dial artistically but …tumbleweed
Prax07
Huge Celeb? Where? I’d never even heard of this kid before this “article”. And a serial monogomist at 22? What, has he been dating since childhood? At 22 a person generally knows a whole lot of nothing, especially when it comes to being a serial monogomist, unless he’s been in several committed monogomus relationships, and if he has, by just 22, then he’s no monogomist.
jenniferbrownz
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