Party (Troye Sivan song)

Sivan began teasing new music on 6 August 2026 in a series of cryptic social media posts, a headshot photo of him wearing theatrical makeup, updates to his official website, a video of posters with the initials "STB", and a series of pictures of Sivan and Addison Rae in elaborate wigs with a caption of the same initials, leading to speculation that a new album was on the way.^[1]

The album, She's the Best, was officially announced on 13 August alongside a teaser for the title track that lasted 14 seconds, with the end of the teaser revealing the song's release date.^[2] Additionally, the song was premiered live a day before release in promotion with TikTok.^[3] The title track was released the following day on 14 August 2026.^[4]

Lyrically, "Party" is a "hypnotic, euphoric ode to losing yourself in a night out, inspired by the cyclical rhythm of a weekend spent moving from place to place," and Sivan drew inspiration from the doofs that he attended growing up in Melbourne and from experiencing dance music. Of this, he explained, "dance music sounds very different on a dance floor than it does coming out of your laptop speaker. The repetition becomes almost hypnotic, and I wanted to play with structure in that way". It is the first official collaboration between Sivan and his brother Tyde, who both felt this was a natural progression of their musical relationship, having always made and shared music together while living in the same house.^[5]

Sonically, "Party" is a "hypnotic" house-pop song.^[6] It interpolates "Music" by Madonna.^[7][8]

The video for "Party" was filmed at a castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire and was directed by Gordon von Steiner, who directed the video for "She's the Best" as well as the three videos from Sivan's Something to Give Each Other era. In the medieval-set video, Sivan stars as a knight who returns from battle to celebrate, hooking up with one of the dancers, and engaging in elaborate choreography with the inhabitants of the castle as they party. Of the concept, Sivan explained that he and von Steiner both take partying "quite seriously" and noted that, "it can be this very transcendent and almost spiritual experience … especially as queer people, I think that nightlife is often the first time that you find yourself in a space where you’re not the minority. So we were talking about it and … we were like, ‘Surely people have always partied in some capacity, and surely queer people have always partied in some capacity.’ And so it got us thinking: What would this party have looked like 100 years ago, 200 years ago? It just unlocked this whole feeling and world that was just so much fun to dig into." Ian McKellen, whom Sivan previously worked with in a production of Waiting for Godot in Perth when he was fourteen, provided an introductory voiceover, which Sivan felt was "important" because "it’s this idea of queer lineage and each generation setting the stage and showing the younger generation or the new generation: ‘This is where we gather and this is what we do, and this is one way to really connect with your community.’ I was so excited to ask him and so excited that he said yes".^[9] Sivan's siblings Tyde Levi and Sage Mellet also appear in the video.^[10]