(this is the script to troye sivan's "becoming you", which you can watch here: clickie here) "this is a video about platform shoes. among other things as well, but mostly about platform shoes. for as long as ive been creative, ive been fearful. fearful of rejection, fearful of failure, fearful of 'who does this kid think he is?'. but a year ago, i signed my record deal, and i thought i was going to wake up one morning and all of a sudden be the dopest person on the planet with sick style and incredible music. i realized soon after that it was not going to be that easy. i realized that the art that i appreciate and the people i appreciate are not just your average person walking down the street. you could take away their money, and take away their fame, and they would cut up a garbage bag and be wearing it like just came off the runway in paris. theyd still be doing that thing that is just left of center that you either love or you hate but to be frank, they dont give a f-ck what you think. art is risk. upon realizing this, its been an interesting journey. im on the path to being a person that im equally terrified by and obsessed with; my true self. i realized that if i wanted to make cool sh-t, i had to make cool sh-t. if that cool sh-t was letting myself scream into a microphone in a room full of people, looking like a complete idiot because i know that its gonna sound amazing on the final track, its about doing that. but this doesnt only apply to me. it means taking rad photos that your friends are going to condescendingly call 'so tumblr', then its about doing that. if its about singing at the top of your lungs when youre tone deaf, its about doing that. if its about showing off your as- because you know its cute, even though you might get called a slut, its doing that. if its wearing something that your probably cant pull off, like womens platform converse shoes when youre a ninteen year old man, its about doing that. what ever it is, i urge you to do it. dont let people stifle you because youre doing the sh-t that they have always been too scared to do. love your body, let your mind wander, and let yourself be the person youve secretly always wanted to be. life isnt about finding yourself, its about creating yourself."
