Guitars, strings, and synths feather beneath Troye Sivan‘s voice on “She’s The Best,” almost patiently, until the track finally breaks open and lets the light in. The global pop force returned today with the title track from his fourth studio album, She’s The Best, due October 9, marking his first release since signing with Interscope Records. Written by Sivan, Leland, George Daniel, Jack Antonoff, and Stylaz Fuego, the song feels organic and alive, cool without trying too hard, but there is something unguardedly tender resting beneath the gloss. It is both a celebration and a love letter to the women, especially trans women, along with the drag queens, feminine-presenting people, and feminine spirit that have shaped his life, creativity, and understanding of himself.

It makes sense that “She’s The Best” begins conversationally, with spoken verses that feel like Sivan is letting listeners in on something before the full production arrives. George Daniel, Jack Antonoff, Stylaz Fuego, and Sivan share production, allowing the song to swell naturally instead of forcing its way toward euphoria too soon. The guitars slowly sharpen, the strings begin stretching across the arrangement, and the synths glide underneath until everything finally gives in to movement. There is cheekiness in the delivery, but it never buries the sincerity; even at its most danceable, the song feels like gratitude placed to music.

The gratitude slips into high fashion in the accompanying visual, where Sivan united with director Gordon von Steiner following their collaborations on “One of Your Girls,” “Got Me Started,” and “Rush.” Inspired by the pulse of 1980s queer New York, the video collides hyper-feminine iconography with glamour, sensuality, and fluid expressions of femininity, all captured through the kind of editorial lens that makes every frame feel ripped from a glossy magazine. And truthfully, Nicole Kidman stepping into Troye Sivan’s world feels almost prewritten into pop culture canon. The cinematic appearance brings two of Australia’s most celebrated icons beneath the same light, adding another layer to a visual already dripping in beauty, theater, and carefully controlled excess.

She’s The Best expands that same world into an immersive album intended to be watched just as much as it is heard. Across the project, Sivan explores desire, identity, joy, loneliness, and queer belonging without pretending those feelings arrive separately or neatly. He exists inside every contradiction at once: masculine and feminine, connected and isolated, towering beneath the spotlight and suddenly small once the room empties. In Sivan’s own words:

“She’s the Best is a painting that captures my life in all of its moods and colours. It explores the high-octane highs of the last few years, and the solitude and longing that sat underneath. It’s chaotic, layered, organic, troubled, and alive. It feels like the truest and most creative version of myself I’ve ever shared. At some point along the way, I realised – the only constant in my life keeping me somewhat sane has not been the work, or the men, but the feminine. Thank god for them.”

For more than a decade, Sivan has moved through pop, fashion, film, and queer culture without treating any of those worlds as separate rooms. His catalog has accumulated more than 15.5 billion global streams, nine Billboard Hot 100 entries, three Grammy nominations, and eight ARIA Awards, while 2023’s Something to Give Each Other delivered defining moments such as “Rush,” “One of Your Girls,” and “Got Me Started” before spilling into the culture-shifting “SWEAT Tour” alongside Charli xcx. If that album captured the sweat, desire, and euphoric abandon of bodies pressed together beneath flashing lights, She’s The Best appears interested in what remains once the night begins to quiet down. The joy is still there, but so are the loneliness, the longing, and the people whose influence becomes clearer with distance. “She’s The Best” does not merely open another album cycle for Troye Sivan; it places the feminine at the center of the frame and thanks it for keeping him alive.