by Douglas Messerli
Nolan Bernardino (director) Bubble / 2013 [4.20 minutes] [music
video]
US singer and actor Benjamin Brian Castro, known to his YouTube
audiences as Sebastian Castro, is best known for his music video Bubble,
which made him an overnight internet celebrity with a following mostly in
Southeast Asia and particularly in the Philippines and Indonesia.
At age 17, Castro’s Jehovah’s
Witnesses believing parents disowned him for being gay, forcing him to seek out
his own way of financing his education Savannah College of Art and Design. On
February 14, 2013, Bubble appeared on YouTube, garnering over 3 million
views, according to Wikipedia. The video itself served as an international “coming
out,” since before the video he had not publicly spoken about his sexuality.
Castro officially came out
on a Philippine podcast, Beki Nights shortly after the release of Bubble,
declaring “I know there are lots of people out there that are scared to be
themselves.”
In 2014, he and former
ABS-CBN reporter Ryan Chua announced their relationship over social media
during a trip Castro made to London where his companion was involved in a
Masters program at the City University of London. The couple separated in 2017.
Bubble begins, as
its lyrics, proclaim in the locker room, but alternates throughout with a kind
circus-like state on which Castro and dancers also perform.
The lyrics of the song
pretty much define the images, which consist mostly of Castro and other young
men dancing in black shorts and at one point showering.
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"There's a fine, fine line, in the horny mind
I crossed mine, in the locker room, mmmhhmm
Next thing I knew, something just grew
In the line of view of: "You'll never ever guess WHO!"
The very best friend I always knew
(Is starin')
At the jockstrap with the bursting bulge
(I'm not wearin')
And maybe that's why, he's walking over, whispering those words
(I can't get Over)"
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Chorus:
"I like your bubble, even the stubble
Happy trailing down
the crack of those two muscles
Tighter the better,
and yours has never
Felt the pain, that
gives...
(Me so, so, so, so!)
(Me so, so, so, so!)
(Me so, so, so, so...)
...Much pleasure!
Pop that pop (POP!), stick your stick into it
Can you bu-bble pop (POP!), grab both cheeks and do it
This is it boy, Christian Grey my boy toy
Pop that Pop (POP), this is how we do it
See pop shows near Los Angeles
Get tickets as low as $14"
………….
[a whole chorus of “pops’ follow.]
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"(Deep Breath)
What did you do, up my choo-choo
I can't even walk straight as I used to"
His new friend, however, declares he didn’t
do much, “just a touch, innocent enough,” and declares that the two of them are
still straight.
Castro answers:
"Mhmmm m-okay, l'll let it go. I'm still a bro
It didn't mean anything, so who has to know?
I am straight; Straight!
I just pulled a muscle lifting weights
It's straight. Man am I straight!
As always I got a hot date"
Castro visits the doctor:
"Doc! Its hurts so bad I can't even sit down
I don't want to tell you how it all went down
How do I know you won't tell anyone around
We both know it's a small ass town"
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"Breathe boy no need to be cynical
All you need now is my physical
Drop the undies and show me the pencil/pop-sicle
Everything here on out is confidential"
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"I like your bubble, even the stubble
Happy trailing down the crack of those two muscles
Tighter the better, and yours has never
Felt the pain, that gives...
(Me so, so, so, so!)
(Me so, so, so, so!)
(Me so, so, so, so...)
...Much pleasure!"
The boy protests, the
doctor basically ignoring him:
"-No please don't
-Hell if I won't
-Why are you kneeling?
-To give you Uh-Oh feelings
-Why do you and everyone I know want my Santa Claus?
-Because…"
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The obviously is another chorus
of “I like your bubble,” end in the words, now slurred out as in sexual ecstasy
itself: “Soooooo much pleasure.”
I have to say this music
video is truly sexy.
Los Angeles, May 19, 2024
Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (May 2024).
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