An interviewer asked musician, Troye Sivan, a wildly inappropriate question during an interview for the September issue of Express , an LGBTQ based magazine in New Zealand, and Troye is not having it.
In case you have no idea who Troye Sivan is, let me help you out.
He’s been busy blowing up the charts with hits like “My My My!”
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He was also cast as young James Howlett in X-Men Origins: Wolverine .
He became a YouTuber back in 2012.
He came out publicly as gay via YouTube in 2013, three years after coming out to his family.
He’s also currently dating model Jacob Bixenman.
He recently sat down for an interview with Express — a LGBTQ-based magazine in New Zealand.
During the interview, they overstepped, asking Troye a question he definitely wasn’t prepared to answer.
In fact, I don’t think anyone would be ready to answer this question.
First, he was asked if his boyfriend would ever give him a “hall pass” to sleep with Shawn Mendes — who is straight btw.
Which is just bizarre.
“Top or bottom?” reporter Matt Fistonich asked Troye in a round of rapid-fire questions.
“Ooo … definitely passing!,” Troye responded — as he should’ve.
Troye tweeted his anger following the interview, after being asked if he was a “top or bottom”.
As I said, the question was wildly inappropriate by most standards.
While he didn’t initially express that he was offended by the question, he later realized how inappropriate it was and took to Twitter to vent about it.
After the Express article was officially published, Troye shared it along with this message:
“I thought about asking the interviewer about his absolute fave sex position after that last question,” he wrote.
“But then i remembered how wildly invasive, strange and innapropriate that would be.”
“Didn’t stop him though!,” he concluded. “Next time I’ll just do a Twitter q&a,”
Naturally, this caught the attention of his fans who shared in his outrage.
Fans pointed out that the interview didn’t seem to center around Troye’s music whatsoever.
He’s an artist, shouldn’t interviewers be asking him about that instead of what his preferred sexual position is?
But unforunately, it seemed to cast a shadow over his interview with Express.
This person thoughtfully pointed out that a straight musician would probably never be asked this question in an interview — so, it shouldn’t be okay to ask anyone else of any other sexual orientation.
How Troye identifies himself sexually should not be more important than the art he is creating. Period.
All the sex-related questions in this interview did not seem necessary or relevant.
I don’t even underestand why the reporter thought asking that was a compelling enough question to include in this interview.
Sure, it’s invasive. But most of all, unimportant?
How does knowing if Troye Sivan is a top or bottom really affect anyone’s life?
It doesn’t.
Thank you, next!
Fans were extremely sympathetic with Troye — letting him know that he is beyond his sexuality.
Just because someone identifies as gay, it doesn’t mean being gay is their entire identity.
The reporter himself also identifies as homosexual, so you’d think he might know better than to ask something so ridiculous. SMH.
Neither the interviewer or his editor have apologized or commented on this issue yet.
Let us know what you think of Troye Sivan’s interview with Express Magazine.
Did the interviewer overstep? Should questions like that ever be asked in interviews with artists?
