{"id":73037,"date":"2026-09-17T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/gandalf-narrates-troye-sivans-new-party-video\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:23:36","slug":"gandalf-narrates-troye-sivans-new-party-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/gandalf-narrates-troye-sivans-new-party-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandalf Narrates Troye Sivan\u2019s New \u201cParty\u201d Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/troye-sivan\/\">Troye Sivan<\/a> has dropped his new <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/troye-sivan-announces-new-album-shes-the-best\/\"><em>She\u2019s the Best<\/em><\/a> single, \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/troyesivan.lnk.to\/Party\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/troyesivan.lnk.to\/Party&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/troyesivan.lnk.to\/Party\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Party<\/a>.\u201d Built around a prominent sample of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2637-madonna\/\">Madonna\u2019s<\/a> Y2K single \u201cMusic,\u201d the track comes with a risqu\u00e9, baroque video directed by Gordon von Steiner. Sivan plays a Medieval knight in the clip, which also features a voiceover courtesy of Sir Ian McKellen. That\u2019s right: Gandalf himself narrates the new Troye Sivan video. See for yourself below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDance music sounds very different on a dance floor than it does coming out of your laptop speaker,\u201d Sivan said of \u201cParty\u201d in press materials. \u201cThe repetition becomes almost hypnotic, and I wanted to play with structure in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sivan\u2019s follow-up to 2023\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/troye-sivan-something-to-give-each-other\/\"><em>Something to Give Each Other<\/em><\/a>, <em>She\u2019s the Best,<\/em> lands October 9. He announced the album last month alongside its <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/troye-sivan-announces-new-album-shes-the-best\/\">title track<\/a>. That song also boasted an A-lister in its music video: fellow Aussie and <em>Boy Erased<\/em> co-star Nicole Kidman.<\/p>\n<p>Read Walden Green\u2019s (hey, that\u2019s me!) track review of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/troye-sivan-shes-the-best\/\">She\u2019s the Best<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/gandalf-narrates-troye-sivans-new-party-video\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troye Sivan has dropped his new She\u2019s the Best single, \u201cParty.\u201d Built around a prominent sample of Madonna\u2019s Y2K single \u201cMusic,\u201d the track comes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}