The Meaning Behind “She’s The Best” by Troye Sivan and an Awestruck Ode to Women

Troye Sivan celebrates women on “She’s The Best”, the title track to the Australian singer’s upcoming album, out October 9. The electropop portrait here isn’t aimed at a single girl. Instead, Sivan collects a multitude of charming anecdotes into the kind of singular spirit that inspires him. And before the song’s end, one of these women makes a surprise appearance.

Quick Drag

Sivan begins his ode with patchwork tales about a girl. He sees the perfect in the imperfect. She rages all night yet manages to wake up early. And this continued recycling of energy, though depleting, reveals a near superpower in his eyes.

Quick drag, a rouged cheek, a blush lip,
Eyeliner in her waterline and some contour on her t*ts.
Night owl and somehow an early bird,
She kinda just stays perpetually tired.

Spellbound to a point beyond poetry, Sivan sings, in a detached exhale, “wow.”

That girl, that girl.

Meanwhile, she rooms with her best friend, and they occasionally share a boy. A collage displaying her potential gives her hope. And this blueprint of the future reminds her to let go of the past.

Share house, her housemate’s her best friend,
Sometimes they might share her boyfriend, hell yeah.
Mood boards her future, it looks good,
She’s done looking back, she’s only looking ahead.

Then, for fun, she scraps online with a bitter celibate who stays hostile to everyone else out there getting laid.

Pretty, funny, can fight,
She always knew she had something special inside.
She takes down an incel on the internet,
When she needs just a little unwind.

A Surprise Guest

Finally, Charli XCX joins Sivan’s celebration and sings the outro hook.

She’s the heartbeat bumping in my chest,
She’s the best.

Charli’s husband (and drummer for The 1975) George Daniel co-wrote and produced “She’s The Best” with Sivan, Jack Antonoff, Leland, and Styalz Fuego.

Returning to Sivan’s seemingly random use of anecdotes, the cloudy production and his deadpan delivery come across like he’s explaining the events as they’re happening.

Sometimes you just have to be there. And here is Sivan, observing, grateful, awestruck.

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