Troye Sivan’s Oh-So-Gentle Rebellion
<em>Bloom</em>, the second album from the aspiring pop star, puts a modest, queer twist on familiar formulas.
The jailbait song is one of pop music’s longest-running, if grossest, traditions. “She was just 17, if you know what I mean,” sang Paul McCartney; “So clean, Christine, 16,” wailed KISS; “It’s no hanging matter / It’s no capital crime / I can see that you’re 15 years old,” hissed Mick Jagger. The jailbait herself rarely gets heard from, though early in rock history, Brian Wilson did build altars to teenage innocence: “Wouldn’t it be
