Not every person was feeling the rush following Troye Sivan dropped his queer summer months anthem. On July 14, Sivan kickstarted his new period with his raunchiest pop banger still, accompanied by a sexy, sweat-soaked new music video. Whilst a lot of admirers celebrated the videos unapologetically queer vibe, it also sparked a bit of controversy on-line as detractors known as “Rush” out for only casting a particular body style in its extensive array of dancers and actors. Well, Sivan has viewed all the memes earning enjoyable of his “Rush” video clip, and he responded to the backlash.

It didn’t choose prolonged for “Rush” to stir the pot. Shortly after the hedonistic club thumper dropped, the social media discourse zeroed in on the songs video’s deficiency of physique diversity. The online video characteristics a ton of dancers, who grind up on one another and Sivan himself in an vacant warehouse, at the aspect of a pool, and in a dirty bathroom. Despite the video’s huge solid, none of the showcased actors deviate much from Sivan’s have system sort. Critics lamented how the video featured only “white twinks and chiseled bodies,” prompting thinkpieces about the hurt the video clip may possibly do to LGBTQ+ people that really don’t in shape into that certain mould.

Soon enough, social media was comprehensive of jokes mocking the tunes video’s lack of system range, with many memes heading viral.

Sivan confirmed he was conscious of the backlash in a July 18 Billboard profile, admitting that he did not put considerably imagined into casting the video. “I absolutely hear the critique,” Sivan claimed. “To be genuine, it just wasn’t a assumed we experienced — we naturally weren’t saying, ‘We want to have 1 unique variety of person in the movie.’ We just designed the movie, and there wasn’t a ton of considered put at the rear of that.”

The pop star went on to say that some of the backlash has been hurtful. In unique, he introduced up a snide remark produced in Vulture’s critique of “Rush.” “They have been chatting about [the lack of body diversity], and in the identical sentence, this individual stated ‘Eat anything, you silly twinks,’” Sivan stated. “That actually bummed me out to go through that — because I’ve experienced my have insecurities with my human body graphic. I consider that everyone’s entire body is as lovely as it is, like my individual, and it just sucks to see people today conversing about other people’s bodies.”