00:00Hey it's Troye Sivan and this is how it went down for my song One of Your Girls.
00:12So weirdly One of Your Girls actually started in kind of a sad way. Oscar Górez was in LA,
00:17he's a producer from Sweden and he was going through some like personal stuff at the time
00:23and he was feeling kind of down and so he went into the studio and started building this track
00:28and he recorded like the little vocal thing that you hear in the very beginning of the song.
00:35I was freaking out, I was like totally, totally obsessed with it and weirdly that weekend there
00:41was this one particular guy who had been flirting with me for a really long time. I had never been
00:46with a guy before and I said to him, I texted him, let me know if you're feeling gay on Saturday
00:50night because he said sometimes he feels to be gay when he like drinks and so then I come in
00:54on Monday full of this like inspiration. We wrote the verses first about this like this guy that
01:00everybody wants and that you know like girls want him, guys want him, tall and has good style and
01:05like has good taste. It just really started with this like pining and this yearning and then we
01:10got stuck on the chorus. We wrote the pre-chorus that day, we had the like bass card and I thought
01:15that was so sick and I was really obsessed with it and I was like this chorus has to be amazing.
01:19I was filming The Idol at the time. Abel the weekend actually showed me this YouTube video.
01:24It was this like sad robot. I just felt really like empathetic for this robot and I was like
01:29wow he feels so disconnected and I don't know something resonated in me. I felt like the sad
01:34robot for a little bit about this guy and so I was like okay so the chorus should have
01:38vocoder, it should like kind of sound like it's got this disconnect you know where it's me but
01:43it's not me and I was making myself laugh in the shower. I was like trying to imagine saying to the
01:47guy like bro it'll be chill, I'll just be like one of your girls or your homies like I can just
01:51be a friend. I stepped out of the shower, recorded it, came back into the studio and the chorus
01:56kind of was there and the last kind of moment where it really all came together, the chorus flips
02:01and it changes to give me a call if you ever get desperate, I'll be like one of your girls. There
02:06was a lot of times where I really felt like I was kind of laying on the tracks for these people
02:10that I wanted so bad that maybe didn't want me back in the way that I wanted them to or you know
02:15wanted me in some ways but not in others and yeah just kind of like my complicated
02:19and mixed feelings about where I sat in the situation as well.
02:27Once we had the concept one of your girls and we had the chorus it was like immediate,
02:31I was like okay I need to be a girl in the video, we've got to cast the hottest man in the universe
02:35to sit in like a chair and I'm going to be dancing around him whatever it's like black
02:39and white and beautiful whatever so it kind of just like all came all at once. The most
02:44challenging part was probably just getting into drag, it took me like you know three hours. I
02:48learned some choreo, I learned how to walk in heels, I started to feel really cute, I was like
02:52okay this might actually work and then I flew to New York and the guy that we cast pulled out
02:57pulled out that day. I was racking my brain trying to think about who is the hottest man in the
03:03universe then it kind of clicked that it was Ross, it was Ross Lynch all along and so I reached out
03:09to Ross, he said yes, he flew overnight and he came and he just was so chill so so nice. I was
03:15doing this weird thing where I was trying to make him feel comfortable so like I'm pretty sure the
03:18first time I saw him I like kind of dabbed him up but I'm in like full drag, it was a crazy moment.
03:24I appreciate him so much and we had a really really fun special day. Once we had the video down I
03:31was pretty much like leaking it like I was sending it to all of my friends, my parents were pulling
03:36pranks on their friends, playing them the music video, being like what do you think of this girl
03:40in Troy's video, people were like oh yeah she's really pretty and then they would be like it's
03:44Troy. We were all I think having a lot of fun with it, it was nice.
03:54I mean the reaction to One of Your Girls was so huge and I think the thing that was super
04:00gratifying to me was that people were really connecting with the story of the song and I
04:03think the story of the video and I think that you know it was important to me that like of course
04:07I wanted to be this like glamazon corseted and wind in her hair and all that but at the same
04:12time I think that like underneath it all there had to be these like cracks that showed through
04:16and the kind of like vulnerability had to be there and it had to communicate what the song
04:20communicated. I was so proud when when I started to feel like people were responding to it in
04:25a way that I hoped that they would. A year down the line it's like I've had all of the moments
04:28that I could have ever wanted with this song. It was always my favorite song on the album, I always
04:32was like I think this is going to be the biggest song on the album now that it basically is it's like
04:37just feels feels good.
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