{"id":1648,"date":"2025-11-20T22:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:14:03","slug":"one-of-your-girls-by-troye-sivan-banger-and-its-implications-in-this-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/11\/20\/one-of-your-girls-by-troye-sivan-banger-and-its-implications-in-this-class\/","title":{"rendered":"“One Of Your Girls” by Troye Sivan (banger) and Its Implications in This Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne of Your Girls\u201d by Troye Sivan is a song about how a gay man (Troye Sivan) makes himself likeable to men who\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0attracted to.\u00a0The line\u00a0\u201cGive me a call if you ever get lonely, I\u2019ll be like one of your girls or your homies\u201d enforces heterosexism\u00a0and highlights the expectation of men (especially gay men) to fit a particular mold of either hyper feminine or hypermasculine.\u00a0In the case of this song, Troye Sivan has chosen to feminize himself in order to gain favor of his suitor.\u00a0These limitations, however,\u00a0serve as an excuse for society to behave aggressively and controllingly towards marginalized people.\u00a0This theme of society not accepting\u00a0gay men\u00a0for\u00a0their sexual identity and\/or\u00a0how they present themselves\u00a0(as well as anyone who deviates from the determined \u201cnormal\u201d)\u00a0is common in\u00a0the literature analyzed in this class such as\u00a0\u201cBoy in a Whalebone Corset\u201d by\u00a0Saeed Jones\u00a0in his collection\u00a0<\/span>Prelude to Bruise<\/span><\/i>. In this\u00a0selection, the speaker\u2019s father\u00a0beats him and burns\u00a0the clothes which he\u00a0deems\u00a0\u201csissy clothes.\u201d The speaker\u2019s method of self-expression in this poem is his feminine\u00a0clothing,\u00a0and his father\u00a0shows his disapproval for his son\u2019s\u00a0representation of himself by destroying them as soon as he finds them. This\u00a0passage reflects society\u2019s\u00a0desire\u00a0to\u00a0control individuals who are different\u00a0and not accept queer people for who they are and how they chose to present themselves.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the music video for this song, Troye Sivan is seen in drag dancing on\u00a0a vision of masculinity (Ross Lynch) who is\u00a0muscular, blonde, dressed in a wife-beater tank top, and sat manspreading in a chair in an empty, white room. This connects to the story in \u201cGrowing Up Gay, Growing Up Lesbian\u201d wherein\u00a0gay men in Little Havana, Florida felt more comfortable transitioning or presenting more feminine regardless of their authentic feelings surrounding their own gender.\u00a0Because of the pressure from a heterosexist American society, people would prefer to have an inauthentic lifestyle\u00a0if that meant feeling\u00a0relatively safe\u00a0or comfortable\u00a0to love who they love.\u00a0In the music video, Troye Sivan is just in drag, but it reminded me of the men who Jesse G. Monteagudo described as \u201cunhappy and confused\u201d who\u00a0felt forced to live inauthentically in order to survive at all.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne of Your Girls\u201d by Troye Sivan is a song about how a gay man (Troye Sivan) makes himself likeable to men who\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0attracted to.\u00a0The line\u00a0\u201cGive me a call if you ever get lonely, I\u2019ll be like one of your girls or your homies\u201d enforces heterosexism\u00a0and highlights the expectation of men (especially gay men) to fit … Continue reading “One Of Your Girls” by Troye Sivan (banger) and Its Implications in This Class<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}