Troye Sivan's heartbeat isn't racing anymore.
The gay singer and actor — known for his hit song "Rush," an ode to the popular party drug poppers — has reacted to the FDA's apparent poppers crackdown. He posted on his Instagram Stories Sunday that "I felt the rush" with a broken heart emoji.
Sivan posted two pictures, one showing him with a sad look on his face (the opposite of his poppers-influenced look on the cover art for "Rush") with the caption: "mfw the poppers party is over."
The song "Rush," off the album Something to Give Each Other, is one of Sivan's most popular tracks, reaching number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot Dance/Electronic chart.
In the song, he sings, "You got my heartbeat racing / My body blazing / I feel the rush / Addicted to your touch," comparing the rush one gets from poppers to the rush of flirting with a lover.
Troye's post appeared responsive a recent piece in TheNew York Times, which posed the question, "Is the Poppers Party over," along with an image of several popular brands. When the news outlet posted the story on its Instagram page, people chimed in with their own responses.
"Won't do anything for a measles outbreak or public health funding, but god forbid there's poppers. Such a joke," wrote @grantgold_.
"America banned poppers faster than guns," added @lowercaseletter.
"Trump doesn't feel the rush," @carrecupero said.
In March, Double Scorpio, a company that sells clothing, accessories, lube, and Double Scorpio Cleaner, a popular brand of poppers, shut down all operations following an FDA search and seizure at its offices.
The company wiped its website and social media and replaced both with a statement noting the search and seizure on March 13, 2025.
"Thank you to everyone who has supported us these last eight years. We’ve always cared about making an authentic product and being engaged with and supporting our community," the statement read. "We are very proud that we managed to build a brand that people can trust, and we don’t want to see that trust exploited. The links listed here will be the only channels where we will communicate from going forward. Thanks for everything… and remember, keep supporting queer businesses, creators, and your local queens."
The company said it also believed the FDA had "performed similar actions" towards other manufacturers and sellers of poppers, and other companies including Pac-West Distributing, which produces the Rush brand of poppers, also wiped its website.
The FDA is currently under the lead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was named secretary of Health and Human Services by President Trump. In the past, Kennedy has said that he believes poppers caused AIDS.
"The virus is a passenger virus, and these people are dying mainly because of poppers," he said
in a video. "A hundred percent of the people who died in the first thousand [with] AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers, which are known to cause Kaposi sarcoma in rats. And they were people who were part of a gay lifestyle where they were burning the candle at both ends."
