Troye Sivan Gets To “Talk talk” About Charli XCX Remix | Billboard News

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With the announcement of Charli XCX’s ‘BRAT’ Remix album, Troye Sivan leads the way with his remix with her on “Talk talk.” Watch what he had to say about making the remixed single, out now!

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00:00We've come out with something that I really, really love, like slaps, I think, yeah.
00:11Why was Talk Talk the song that you guys felt like was right for your remix?
00:14She did the whole remix album, so there's like a remix for every song and she chose me for Talk Talk.
00:20When she was first working on Brat, she sent me Talk Talk and I loved it, obviously, and
00:24it was really cool, though, because what she's done with this remix album is like,
00:28it can be, some of the remixes are kind of a more maybe traditional feature where the person
00:34has come on and just, you know, is on the second verse, kind of like doing the same melody, but
00:39maybe changing some lyrics, but, you know, kind of like that vibe. What she said as well, though,
00:44was that she wanted some of the songs to, she's like, I don't care if you use one word from the
00:48original, it can be a completely new song, but use Talk Talk as like, you know, a seed for a song.
00:55Essentially, we sampled Talk Talk and created an entirely new pop song out of it, because I said to
01:01her, I was like, okay, so if it's a remix, is this like a six-minute long club song or is this like
01:08a pop song? And she was like, no, no, it's a pop song. I'm like, okay, cool. I had so much fun kind
01:12of like taking the scissors to the song that I really, really love and getting to kind of like
01:18chop and change and whatever, and we brought in kind of like the Rush team and worked on it and
01:23then sent it back to Charli and Charli sent, did her thing, sent it back to me. It was just kind of
01:27like this really fun collaborative process and we've come out with something that I really,
01:33really love. It like slaps, I think, yeah.
01:41I feel like you guys were such students of just like pop, you know what I mean? Because those old
01:45school remixes were that way. Yeah. They were completely changing and now I feel like it's
01:49gotten away from that, but I'm glad that you guys are returning to it. Totally, yeah. I think the
01:52way that Charli thinks about music is so, so, so inspiring to me and I think it's about pop and,
01:58you know, we both, I think, feel like we, it's almost like, yeah, we went to the same school of
02:04like pop songwriting or something like that where it's like we both have our obsession, this like
02:09deep, weird obsession with Sweden and I know that we both like tried to learn Swedish at different
02:15times. How's that going? Terribly for me, maybe Charli better, I don't know. Thinking about pop
02:20in the same way just makes us like kind of like natural collaborators where we just keep coming
02:26back to do the same thing again and again and again. More with Troye Sivan coming soon. The
02:30Talk Talk remix is out now.

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