Something to Give Each Other

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Something to Give Each Other
Sivan, shirtless and smiling with his eyes closed, with his head between a naked man's thighs
Studio album by
Troye Sivan
Released13 October 2023
Recorded
  • House Mouse Studios (Stockholm)
  • MXM Studios (Los Angeles)
  • The Pool Recording Studio (London)
Genre
Length33:40
Label
Producer
Troye Sivan chronology
In a Dream
(2020) 		Something to Give Each Other
(2023)
Singles from Something to Give Each Other
  1. "Rush"
    Released: 13 July 2023
  2. "Got Me Started"
    Released: 20 September 2023
  3. "One of Your Girls"
    Released: 13 October 2023

Something to Give Each Other is the third studio album by Australian singer and songwriter Troye Sivan. It was released by EMI Music Australia and Capitol Records on 13 October 2023. It is Sivan's first album release in five years, following Bloom (2018). It features a collaboration with Spanish singer and guitarist Guitarricadelafuente.

The album received universal acclaim from critics. It was preceded by the lead single "Rush" which topped the charts in Israel and entered the top ten in Ireland, Croatia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia. The second single "Got Me Started", entered the charts in nine regions including Australia and the UK. A third single, "One of Your Girls", was released concurrently with the album. It is Sivan's most commercially successful album, becoming his first album and second project to top the ARIA chart in his native Australia, and reaching the top ten in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It also reached number one on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

At the 2023 J Awards, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year,[1] while "Rush" was nominated for Best Pop Dance Recording and Best Music Video at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards as Sivan’s first nominations.

The album was nominated for the 2023 Australian Music Prize.[2] The album was nominated for Best Record at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards.[3]

Background[edit]

Sivan teased the release of the album on 9 June 2023 on Instagram alongside a clip showcasing him throughout different years on a television starting from his first ever upload to YouTube and ending with a teaser for the music video of the album's then upcoming lead single "Rush". Sivan stated in the post caption that he had been making the album for over five years in between various commitments, such as his Bloom tour and the television series The Idol, in which he had a starring role.[4]

Sivan announced the album name and release date and unveiled the cover art on 13 July 2023 on social media.[5]

This album is my something to give you - a kiss on a dancefloor, a date turned into a weekend, a crush, a winter, a summer. Party after party, after party after after party. Heartbreak, freedom. Community, sisterhood, friendship. All that.

— Sivan describing the album[5]

Artwork[edit]

The album cover features Sivan smiling with his head between a friend's legs. Sivan stated that he wanted to smile for the album cover but did not smile throughout the day of the photoshoot because he felt awkward smiling and did not want his smile to look fake. The shot for the album cover captured when Sivan's friend kneeled down and tickled Sivan's ribs, which provoked a genuine smile.[6]

Due to the cover's suggestive nature, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, as well as countries in Eastern Europe, replaced it with the single artwork for "Rush" instead, which features a close-up of Sivan.[7][better source needed]

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic84/100[8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[9]
Clash9/10[10]
The Guardian[11]
NME[12]
Pitchfork8.0/10[13]
Rolling Stone[14]
Slant Magazine[15]

Something to Give Each Other received acclaim from critics, who praised its "unapologetic queer" lyricism, production, and vocals.[16] Metacritic, a review aggregation website that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream publications, assigned the album a score of 84 out of 100 based on 13 critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[8]

Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian called it "one of the year's most distinctive pop albums" and stated that while "there are more high tempos, but where 'Rush' was claustrophobic and orgiastic, other tracks give Sivan more space to move".[11] Writing for Variety, Stephen J. Horowitz opined that the album represents Sivan at his "most realized and forthcoming" and praised the confessional nature of the songwriting.[17]

Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine wrote that the album "finds Sivan older, bolder, and, for a large part of its running time, unrepentantly horny" and what it "lacks in poignancy, though, is made up for by the joy with which it embraces queer pleasure".[15] For Rolling Stone, Tim Chan called the album "an ode to queerness and reinvention" as well as "a pristine slice of pop heaven."[18]

Reviewing the album for Clash, Lauren Dehollogne felt that "a wave of bubbling emotion and challenging energy is palpable throughout Something to Give Each Other, but somehow each transition goes over smoothly and not a single track feels out of place" and "each track [...] can evoke a chuckle, a smile, a tear, or a gasp".[10] Nick Levine of NME opined that aside from "Rush", "the album is mostly midtempo, though with a slightly warmer, gauzier sonic palette than Sivan's previous albums". He concluded that it is "a strikingly vital pop album charged with love, lust, sweat and regret".[12] Harry Tafoya of Pitchfork found the album to be "a showcase for some dazzling eclecticism" as "ideas that couldn't possibly work on paper are executed skillfully and to often gorgeous effect", commenting that it "scans as less of a reinvention than a gradual honing of Sivan's craft".[13]

Year-end lists[edit]

Select year-end rankings of Something to Give Each Other
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Billboard The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Staff List 3
[19]
The Guardian The 50 Best Albums of 2023 13
[20]
The Evening Standard The Albums of the Year 2023 3
[21]
NME The Best Albums of 2023 4
[22]
PopMatters The 20 Best Pop Albums of 2023 11
[23]
The Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best Albums of 2023 7
[24]
Nylon Nylon's Top Albums of 2023 4
[25]

Commercial performance[edit]

Something to Give Each Other debuted at number one in Australia, making it Sivan's highest-charting studio album in his home country.[26] It opened at number 20 on the US Billboard 200 with 31,000 album-equivalent units, including 16,000 pure album sales.[27] In addition to the album's singles charting internationally, three album tracks ("What's the Time Where You Are?", "In My Room", and "Still Got It") all charted on the Official New Zealand Music Chart, and additional songs ("Silly", and "Honey"), alongside "What's the Time Where You Are?" placed on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart.[28]

Something to Give Each Other Tour[edit]

Dates[edit]

List of concerts showing date, city, country, and venue[29]
Date (2024) City Country Venue
Leg 1 – Europe
May 29 Lisbon Portugal Coliseu dos Recreios
May 31[a] Barcelona Spain Parc del Fòrum
June 2[b] Paris France Bois de Vincennes
June 05 Stockholm Sweden Hovet
June 7[c] Aarhus Denmark Eskelunden
June 09 Prague Czechia Sportovní hala Fortuna
June 11 Berlin Germany Velodrom
June 12 Hamburg Sporthalle
June 14 Munich Zenith
June 15 Zürich Switzerland The Hall
June 17 Frankfurt Germany Jahrhunderthalle
June 18 Düsseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Halle
June 20 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome
June 22 Manchester England AO Arena
June 23 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro
June 25 Dublin Ireland 3Arena
June 27 London England Wembley Arena
June 28 Birmingham Utilita Arena

Track listing[edit]

Something to Give Each Other track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Rush"
2:36
2."What's the Time Where You Are?"
Görres3:23
3."One of Your Girls"
  • Mellet
  • McLaughlin
  • Görres
Görres3:01
4."In My Room" (featuring Guitarricadelafuente)
Görres3:13
5."Still Got It"
  • Mellet
  • Görres
Görres3:28
6."Can't Go Back, Baby"
Görres3:21
7."Got Me Started"
  • Kirkpatrick
  • Styalz Fuego[v]
3:18
8."Silly"
  • Mellet
  • McLaughlin
  • Kirkpatrick
  • Kirkpatrick
  • Styalz Fuego[v]
3:38
9."Honey"
  • Mellet
  • McLaughlin
  • Görres
  • Behr
  • Görres
  • Fuego
3:26
10."How to Stay with You"
  • Görres
  • Cook
3:16
Total length:32:40

Notes

Personnel[edit]

Musicians

  • Troye Sivan – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10), vibraphone (6)
  • Zhone – vocals, background vocals (1, 9)
  • Adam Novodor – background vocals (1, 9)
  • Alex Chapman – background vocals (1, 9)
  • Oscar Görres – bass, drums, percussion, programming (2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10); guitar (2, 3, 5, 6, 9), keyboards (2, 3, 6, 9, 10), background vocals (2, 3, 6), timpani (3), string arrangement (4); organ, piano (5)
  • Jason Minnaar – spoken word (2)
  • Santa Ouhamou Portillo – spoken word (2)
  • Sofia Gallini – spoken word (2)
  • David Bukovinszky – cello (4)
  • Mattias Bylund – string arrangement, synthesizer (4)
  • Karl Guner – synthesizer (4)
  • Hanna Helgegren – violin (4)
  • Mattias Johansson – violin (4)
  • Guitarricadelafuente – vocals (4)
  • Styalz Fuego – keyboards, programming (9)
  • A. G. Cook – keyboards (10)
  • Henki Skidu – saxophone (10)

Technical

Charts[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Weekly chart performance for Something to Give Each Other
Chart (2023-2024) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[31] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[32] 30
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[33] 7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[34] 17
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[35] 29
Croatian International Albums (HDU)[36] 5
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[37] 13
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[38] 3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[39] 13
French Albums (SNEP)[40] 60
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[41] 9
Greek Albums (IFPI)[42] 39
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[43] 33
Icelandic Albums (Plötutíðindi)[44] 11
Irish Albums (OCC)[45] 13
Italian Albums (FIMI)[46] 55
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[47] 4
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[48] 2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[49] 9
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[50] 11
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[51] 30
Scottish Albums (OCC)[52] 5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[53] 13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[54] 16
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[55] 14
UK Albums (OCC)[56] 4
US Billboard 200[57] 20
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[58] 1

Year-end charts[edit]

2023 year-end chart performance for Something to Give Each Other
Chart (2023) Position
Australian Artist Albums (ARIA)[59] 11

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The May 31, 2024 concert in Barcelona, Spain at the Parc del Fòrum is part of Primavera Sound.
  2. ^ The June 2, 2024 concert in Paris, France at the Bois de Vincennes is part of We Love Green.
  3. ^ The June 7, 2024 concert in Aarhus, Denmark is part of NorthSide Festival.

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