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Troye Sivan has cracked out his best 90s boyband balladeering for new single 'Angel Baby'
"I thought we needed a few more of those."
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'Cool' traces the hollow centre of aspiration. Sivan sketches a world of island weekends, mansion debuts, and designer coats, the trappings of a life that photographs well. But the song's real subject is the gap between having and feeling. He wants to be like someone else, to match their ease, and discovers that accumulation does not close that distance. The lyric "I'm a spark and you're a boom" captures the asymmetry perfectly: effort versus effortlessness, the trying versus the being. What makes the song work is its refusal to resolve. He has the cigarette smoke and the Saint Laurent coat, but nothing feels right. He drinks but chokes; he loves but does not. The song does not condemn the pursuit of cool so much as it documents the particular loneliness of chasing it, the way desire can outlast satisfaction. It is a song about performance and its costs, about the distance between the life you curate and the life you actually live.
"COOL" is a track by Troye Sivan, from the album Blue Neighbourhood, released 4th December 2015. The track is 3:22 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Troye Sivan.
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