Hear Troye Sivan’s Stunning Cover of Billie Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For?’

After releasing two disco-pop bangers, Troye Sivan is stripping issues down.

The Australian artist, 28, stopped by BBC Radio 1 Dwell Lounge on Tuesday the place he performed his single “Rush,” in addition to a canopy of Billie Eilish’sBarbie soundtrack contribution “What Was I Made For?”

Joined by a keyboard participant and a guitarist, the pop star gave a minimalist efficiency that highlighted the somber high quality of the tune from Eilish, 21, and her brother/collaborator Finneas O’Connell. Singing slowly and gently, the duvet feels resonant of a number of the ballads off Sivan’s 2015 debut album Blue Neighbourhood. 

The “Bloom” singer, who was wearing a sweater with peek-a-boo cutouts, additionally gave a low-key rendition of his hit “Rush.” He turned the dance flooring anthem right into a sultry gradual jam with bossa nova-inspired instrumentation. 

A handful of different artists have coated the “Dangerous Man” singer throughout their Dwell Lounge classes. Other than Sivan, Shawn Mendes and Rina Sawayama each performed “Happier Than Ever,” and Miley Cyrus sang “My Future.”

Sivan’s decide is the newest tune from the pop star and Finneas, 26, and their unique contribution to Greta Gerwig’s blockbusterBarbiefilm. 

The Grammy winner defined to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe upon the tune’s launch the way it got here out of a interval of feeling exhausted creatively. 

“We had been actually in a zone of feeling like we misplaced it and feeling like, ‘Man, I do not know if we are able to do that anymore.’ And we had been like, I used to be 15 years previous, 16, 17, and he is a youngster, you possibly can think about my ideas of doubt. Like, ‘Oh, I am unable to do that anymore,’” Eilish advised Lowe. 

After screening the movie, Eilish defined she was “purely impressed” by it and ended up writing an emotional tune that she deeply related with. “I actually do not imply this to return off a immodest manner in any respect, however I do that factor the place I make stuff that I do not even know is … like I am writing for myself and I do not even realize it,” she shared. “It is without doubt one of the most unbelievable issues I get to expertise in my life. Dude, the subsequent week I used to be enjoying it within the automotive all day and enjoying it for everyone. And I used to be like, ‘That is precisely how I really feel. And I did not even imply to be saying it.'”

On Oct. 13, Sivan will launch his third studio albumOne thing to Give Every Different (through Capitol Data). The file might be his first full-length album since 2018 and was described in a press launch as being “a celebration of intercourse, dance, sweat, group, queerness, love and friendship.”

He dropped “Rush” again in July when he introduced the upcoming launch, and lately shared a remix of the monitor that includes rising pop star PinkPantheress and Hyunjin of Stray Youngsters. 

He additionally dropped “Obtained Me Began,” together with its fashionable dance music video, in September.