Focus Features and Back Lot Music announce the release
of “Revelation”, the new original song by Troye Sivan &
Jónsi written for the feature filmBoy Erased.
LISTEN TO IT HERE
FIRST
SONG FROM BOY ERASED SOUNDTRACK
“REVELATION” BY TROYE SIVAN & JÓNSI
RELEASED ON BACK LOT MUSIC
BOY ERASED - "Revelation" by Troye Sivan & Jónsi
- In Select Theaters November 2nd
LOS
ANGELES, CA
Focus Features and Back Lot Music announce the release of “Revelation”,
the new original song by Troye Sivan & Jónsi written for the
feature film Boy Erased. Fans can stream the song on
all DSP’s or get the song instantly with soundtrack pre-order
here.
The soundtrack to the film – featuring an additional original
song by Jónsi and score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans –
will release digitally on 10/26 and physically on 11/2 with
the film’s theatrical release in select theaters nationwide.
A vinyl component will be issued later this year with Music
on Vinyl.
Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared (played
by Lucas Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American
town, who is outed to his parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell
Crowe) at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a
conversion therapy program, or be permanently exiled and shunned
by his family, friends and faith. Boy Erased is the true story
of one young man’s struggle to find himself while being forced
to question every aspect of his identity. Sivan also acts alongside
Hedges as Gary, a fellow conversion therapy student.
Sivan talked about writing the song for the film during a recent
tour stop in New York City, where he performed it live for the
first time. “I got together with Jónsi of Sigur Rós and Leland.
Joel [Edgerton, writer/director] showed us a scene from the
movie, and I don’t want to spoil anything, but it’s this one
moment of relief in the film. It’s this one really sweet, tender
moment where Jared does something that I would consider pure
and beautiful and normal and romantic. He has that experience
and the sky doesn’t fall down on him. The world doesn’t come
crashing down, and it’s a ‘revelation’ to him. That person that
he was with is a revolution to him, and it was just so inspiring.
So, we started with these lyrics of ‘you’re a revelation, you’re
a revolution’.”
Sivan, who was born in South Africa and raised in Australia,
came out to his family at age 14. Unlike the character of Jared,
Sivan says “the only thing that saddened my parents was that
I hadn’t told them sooner; that I was dealing with this alone.”
He has since become one of the world’s most influential online
superstars with the biggest social media footprint in Australia,
and the fastest growing YouTube channel in the Australia/Asian
market to date. He began his career as an actor staring opposite
John Cleese in the South African franchise Spud. Sivan
was recently hailed as “the Perfect Pop Star for 2018” by TIME,
which pronounced his new album, Bloom (Capitol Records),
as “a major artistic achievement.” Bloom was awarded
four stars by Rolling Stone and has already racked up
more than 700 million cumulative streams. Sivan’s numerous awards
include a Billboard Music Award, three MTV EMA’s and two GLAAD
Media Awards. His 2015 debut album, Blue Neighbourhood,
topped the iTunes charts in 66 countries and has sold more than
2.5 million adjusted albums worldwide.
Jón ţor (Jónsi) Birgisson is an Icelandic musician, best known
as singer of Sigur Rós, a band he co-founded as a teenager 24
years ago. With Sigur Rós he has released seven studio albums,
which have taken the band on a journey from willful obscurity
to a position as one of the biggest 'underground' bands on the
planet, building a large and ardent live fanbase all over the
world. Sigur Rós' beautifully atmospheric and often darkly dramatic
work continues to defy categorization, attracting a truly broad
spectrum of admirers, among them the many filmmakers. For film,
Jónsi has previously written end title songs for How To Train
Your Dragon 1 & 2, an award-winning score for Cameron
Crowe's We Bought A Zoo, and TV drama Manhattan.