Troye Sivan has generously offered to work with freelancers for his upcoming song. He said that the money allocated to his music video will be used to pay freelancers who can help design supporting material.
In this time of the pandemic, many are unable to make a living especially the freelancers as various projects have been put on hold. Troy said that he simply wanted to help self employed graphic designers and artists affected by the crisis by working with them on new promotional material.
He posted an image of him on Instagram captioned , ” I would like to release me music. I just decided.Freelance artists HMU I want to work with you and take the money I would be spending on music videos and give it to you. This is a tough and scary time and I feel so lucky to have music and art to get me through emotionally and financially and I want to share that so bad!”
Fans were elated to see Troy making such quick decisions that would help out many of them. Some even enquired into the release of his song which he said would drop ‘very soon’. It’s been about two years since Sivan released his sophomore album Bloom to extensive critical and commercial success.
The artist had recently been posting vague details about his song on Twitter letting the world witness a fun exchange between him and his fans. He tweeted “Guys hey lol , I’m going berserk in quarantine and will be releasing new music ASAP!” Well quarantine is bringing out the creative juices in many artists and we’re glad that everyone is doing a great job in raising their morale with all these new projects and home concerts!
Troye’s song “Take Yourself Home” is all set to release on 1st April.