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Bloom is the second studio album by Australian singer and songwriter Troye Sivan,released on 31 August 2018 through EMI Music Australia and Capitol Records. The album follows up his 2015 debut studio album, Blue Neighbourhood ,and features guest appearances from Gordi and Ariana Grande. It was preceded by the release of the singles "My My My!","The Good Side","Bloom","Dance to This" and "Animal".
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018,the album was nominated for three awards;Album of the Year,Best Male Artist and Best Pop Release. [4]
Bloom has been called Sivan's "sex album", [5] as well as "darker","more guitar-driven" and "more danceable" than his previous material. [6] [7] It has also been described as containing material about defiant gay expression; [6] the first song,"Seventeen",is about a sexual experience Sivan had with a man he met on Grindr. [6] Sivan wrote most of the album with American musician Leland and Canadian musician Allie X. [5] The album's production was primarily handled by Bram Inscore,Oscar Görres,Oscar Holter and Ariel Rechtshaid.
"My My My!" was released as the lead single from the album on 10 January 2018, and was accompanied by a music video directed by Grant Singer. [8] The second single "The Good Side", was released nine days later. It is an acoustic track about a breakup, with Sivan explaining that the song is an open letter to an ex-boyfriend. [9] The title track "Bloom", a song about anal sex, which was promoted by the hashtag "#BopsBoutBottoming" that was trending on Twitter, [10] was released on 2 May as the third single. [11] "Dance to This", featuring American singer Ariana Grande, was released on 13 June as the album's fourth single. [12] The fifth single, "Animal", was released on 9 August. [13] On 14 June, Sivan announced a Target special edition would be released featuring two new songs, "This This" and "Running Shoes". [14] The album was released on 31 August 2018 by EMI Music Australia and Capitol Records. [15]
Sivan promoted the album via the Bloom Tour, which began on 21 September in Irving, Texas, [16] and ended on 30 November 2019 in Chengdu, China.
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 8.2/10 [17] |
Metacritic | 85/100 [18] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [19] |
The A.V. Club | B [20] |
The Guardian | [21] |
The Independent | [22] |
The Irish Times | [23] |
NME | [24] |
The Observer | [25] |
Pitchfork | 7.5/10 [26] |
Q | [27] |
Rolling Stone | [28] |
Bloom received widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album has an average score of 85, based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [18]
Giving the album a perfect score, The Independent 's Douglas Greenwood wrote, "Making perfect pop isn't easy, but Troye Sivan is a star who's done his homework. With one foot in pop's past and another in its present, Bloom is a record that could turn its considerate maker into one of mainstream music's most revered and fascinating talents." [22] AllMusic critic Neil Z. Yeung stated that "Bloom is an unambiguous statement from Sivan, clear in its intent to celebrate the highs and lows of queer love through the eyes of a proud pop star in the making." [19] Annie Zaleski from The A.V. Club opined that "Bloom's beauty and gifts reveal themselves gradually over time." [20]
Writing for The Guardian , Alexis Petridis stated that "the results are characterful", elaborating: "Bloom is done and dusted in 35 crisp minutes – a time at which some pop albums are reaching their mid-point – and feels like a coherent, artist-led album rather than a bet-spreading collection of songs designed to hit every popular musical base." [21] Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone said, "Well beyond the already stellar dismissal of heteronormative storylines in pop love stories, Sivan finds a wealth of ways to bring about fresh reflections on age-old themes with undeniable charisma." [28] The Line of Best Fit writer Claire Biddles stated, "Bloom is an exceptional pop album, but maybe more importantly it's a beacon for queer people who struggle to reconcile our neuroses – societal and personal – with our potential for joy and love." [29]
Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
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Clash | The 40 Best Albums of 2018 | 29 | [30] |
The Guardian | The 50 Best Albums of 2018 | 37 | [31] |
The Independent | The 40 Best Albums of 2018 | 12 | [32] |
NME | Albums of the Year 2018 | 29 | |
Paper | Top 20 Albums of 2018 | 14 | |
Rolling Stone | The 20 Best Pop Albums of 2018 | 7 | |
Slant Magazine | The 25 Best Albums of 2018 | 4 | |
Time | The 10 Best Albums of 2018 | 7 | [37] |
USA Today | The Best Albums of 2018 | — | |
PopMatters | The 10 Best Pop Albums of 2018 | 2 | [39] |
Bloom debuted at number three in Australia, making it Sivan's second highest-charting studio album in his home country. [40] It opened at number four on the US Billboard 200 with 72,000 album-equivalent units, including 59,000 pure album sales. [41] It is his highest-charting release and best sales week to date on the Billboard 200. [41]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Seventeen" |
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| 3:38 |
2. | "My My My!" |
| Görres | 3:24 |
3. | "The Good Side" |
| 4:28 | |
4. | "Bloom" |
| Holter | 3:42 |
5. | "Postcard" (featuring Gordi) |
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| 3:36 |
6. | "Dance to This" (featuring Ariana Grande) |
| Holter | 3:51 |
7. | "Plum" |
| Görres | 3:06 |
8. | "What a Heavenly Way to Die" |
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| 3:07 |
9. | "Lucky Strike" |
| Hope | 3:28 |
10. | "Animal" |
| 4:25 | |
Total length: | 36:49 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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11. | "This This" |
| Inscore | 3:33 |
12. | "Running Shoes" |
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| 3:46 |
Total length: | 44:07 |
No. | Title | Length |
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6. | "Seventeen (Reprise)" | 1:11 |
Total length: | 37:58 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "My My My!" |
| Görres | 3:25 |
2. | "Bloom" |
| Holter | 3:42 |
3. | "Lucky Strike" |
| Hope | 3:28 |
4. | "Seventeen" |
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| 3:38 |
5. | "The Good Side" |
| 4:29 | |
6. | "Dance to This" (featuring Ariana Grande) |
| Holter | 3:51 |
7. | "Plum" |
| Görres | 3:06 |
8. | "Postcard" (featuring Gordi) |
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| 3:36 |
9. | "What a Heavenly Way to Die" |
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| 3:07 |
10. | "Animal" |
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| 4:25 |
Total length: | 36:47 |
Notes
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [75] | Gold | 35,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Edition | Format | Label | Ref. |
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Various | 31 August 2018 | Standard | EMI Australia | ||
United States | Urban Outfitters limited | LP | Capitol | ||
Target exclusive | CD | ||||
Japan | Japan deluxe | Universal Japan |
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