Troye Sivan is a singer and songwriter from Australia. He’s been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Grammys, and he’s won four of Australia’s ARIA awards. His song “My My My!” was a #1 hit on the Billboard Dance Chart, and his third album, Something to Give Each Other, was one of Billboard’s picks for the best albums of 2023. Troye’s also an actor; he was in the HBO series The Idol, which figures into the story that he tells about this song. Troye came to the studio and we talked about how he made one of his big hits, the song “One of Your Girls.” For that song, he worked with two of his longtime collaborators: his frequent songwriting partner, Leland, and producer Oscar Görres.

You can buy or stream “One Of Your Girls” here.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

For a transcript of this episode, click here.

footnotes:

Max Martin – synth
Adele
Lady Gaga
Marabou
Daft Punk
“One Of The Girls”
The Weeknd
Backstreet Boys
“Baby One More Time”
1989
“Bloom”

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Beabadoobee is an award-winning singer and songwriter from England who’s been releasing music since 2017. Her third album is called This Is How Tomorrow Moves. It came out in August 2024 and went to #1 on the UK charts. She made the album with her bandmate Jacob Bugden and with producer Rick Rubin at his studio, Shangri-La, in Malibu. And for this episode, I talked to Bea about a song from that album called “Coming Home.”

You can buy or stream “Coming Home” here.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

For a transcript of this episode, click here.

footnotes:

Luca Caruso – piano
CJ Camerieri – trumpet
Thompson Hollywood
Taylor Swift
“The Wedding Singer”
The Beatles Anthology

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Remi Wolf is a singer and songwriter originally from Palo Alto, California. She’s been releasing music since 2019. She performed at Coachella in 2023, and has toured with Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, and Paramore. Her second album, Big Ideas, came out in July 2024. I talked to Remi about how she and her collaborators wrote and produced the song “Soup.” How they used 80s gear to make 80s sounds, and how a fun anthem quickly turned into something pretty vulnerable.

You can buy or stream “Soup” here.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

For a transcript of this episode, click here.

footnotes:
solomonophonic – co-writer, bass
Knox Fortune – co-writer, synth
Carter Lang – producer
“Walking on a Dream”
Electric Lady Studios
DrumTraks
Korg M1
OB-8

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