You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
I think it's really, really difficult to write a song that's both funny and emotional.
It's a hard needle to thread.
But I think that's what Troye Sivan did with the song that's in this episode.
Troye Sivan is a singer and songwriter from Australia.
He's been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Grammys, and he's won four of Australia's ARIA Awards.
His song My My My was a number one hit on the Billboard dance chart, and his third album,
Something to Give Each Other, was one of Billboard's picks for the best albums of 2023.
Troy's also an actor.
He was in the HBO series The Idol, which figures into the story that he tells about this song.
He came over to the studio and we talked about how he made one of his big hits,
the song One of Your Girls.
For that song, he worked with two of his longtime collaborators,
his frequent songwriting partner Leland and producer Oscar Górez.
I'm Troye Sivan.
The story of One of Your Girls begins with guys who I was talking to that were maybe flirting with me that had not been with guys prior.
There are these boys, I know plenty of them, that are just like too cool to be straight.