TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 9月1日 07時30分

@トロアイ・シヴァン is different from many of the stars who have come before. But for him, that’s an asset, not an impediment. His music—delicate dance-pop that has notched hundreds of millions of streams, a @Saturday Night Live appearance and one big Top 40 hit (“Youth”)—has already won him fans like collaborator @アリアナ・グランデ and @テイラー・スウィフト, who brought him onstage during a recent stadium tour date. Maybe it’s because Sivan is more than just your average pop star. He built a platform as a digital influencer on YouTube first, building connections with fans who related to his unapologetically queer identity, then used his Internet following to buoy him to stardom as a bona fide artist. And it’s working: Bloom, Sivan's new album out today, marks a major artistic achievement, evoking influences from the Velvet Underground to Simon & Garfunkel, all wrapped up in a sleek pop package. It’s important to Sivan to be honest about his own experiences. “I just want to provide for a young audience what I felt was lacking when I was a kid,” Sivan tells TIME, “which was representation of someone living their life.” When Sivan talks about representation, he’s talking about representation for someone like him: queer, sensitive, thoughtful. On Bloom, he flips from documenting explicitly queer narratives to using gender-neutral pronouns. He says he grew up feeling accepted in his queer identity, and it was important to him to make music that felt equally non-judgmental. He wants fans to feel connected with the causes that matter to him too, teaming up with LGBTQ organizations including the @allycoalition and the @trevorproject to promote local activism while he’s on his upcoming tour. He also appears alongside Lucas Hedges and @ニコール・キッドマン in the upcoming film Boy Erased, out this November, about a young man who lands in conversion therapy. He’s cautious when he talks about his need to be a role model in the LGBTQ community: “This is a responsibility that I take really seriously.” Read more on TIME.com. Photograph by @ryanjamescaruthers for TIME

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