“So it was fine to tweet inflammatory things about sex when there’s an album to promote, but now it’s inappropriate,” Out‘s editors wrote. They were specifically referencing Sivan’s 2018 album Bloom, whose title track was promoted on Twitter with the hashtag “#BopsBoutBottoming” and features lyrics that have been widely interpreted as references to bottoming.
“ Fistonich could have phrased his questions better - he also asked Sivan if boyfriend Jacob Bixenman would give him a ‘hall pass’ for celebrity crush Shawn Mendes - but it’s a bit hypocritical for Sivan to act as if talking about his sex life is taboo when he wrote a whole ass album about bottoming,” Out‘s editors wrote. The South African-Australian artist then turned his attention to Out Magazine, after the LGBTQ publication’s editors called it “hypocritical” of Sivan to complain about the line of questioning. I thought about asking the interviewer about his absolute fave sex position after that last question, but then i remembered how wildly invasive, strange and innapropriate that would be.
He added: “Next time I’ll just do a Twitter q&a.”
“I thought about asking the interviewer about his absolute fave sex position after that last question,” Sivan tweeted, “but then I remembered how wildly invasive, strange and innapropriate that would be.