Thursday, June 26, 2025

Nathan Kim | Crème Brulée / 2025 [music video]

driving them crazy

by Douglas Messerli

 

David Archuleta, Robyn Dell’Unto, Ryan Nealon, and Michael Bloom (composers), Nathan Kim (director) Crème Brulée / 2025 [3 minutes]

 

Another smooth, pop-singing gay crooner, David Archuleta was only 18 when he released his first single, “Crush,” which landed his album at the number 2 position of the Billboard 200 chart. And since then, he has continued to produce singles and albums, some of them exploring old time hits such as The Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road,” while several others have been original songs that deal with queer life.

     A former member of the Latter-Day Saints, Archuleta came out as queer (gay and “demisexual”) in 2021 and he made in clear in a 2023 interview that he and his mother were no longer involved with the LDS church.

     “Crème Brulée,” a single for his upcoming album Earthly Delights, is a rather self-congratulatory song about his sexual prowess, or at least his sexual draw, as it celebrates, sometimes in Spanish, the fact that one “bite” of the singer, other men will inevitably want more.

The Spanish phrase, “I drive you crazy, crazy,” is repeated several times throughout.


 

Oh no

Another man down

Another heart left on the dance floor

Took a bite, now he wants more

Words flow

Right out of his mouth

Yeah like he's never had sugar before

Don't care bout a main course

 

One night and they're singing my praises

Two shots then the honeymoon phase, it's

Three word phrases, skipping stages

It's all over your face like


 

Oh no

There goes all of your clothes

Speaking words you don't know

Yo te vuelvo loco, loco

Oh no, you want me in slo-mo

Snap me like a photo

Yo te vuelvo loco, loco

I can't help that you don't wanna wait

Ok

Now you've had a taste of crème brûlée


    Like the major analogy of the poem, the sweetness one must break into of crème brûlée, so does the song sweetly brush away the possibility of a long relationship with the narrative voice of the singer.

    Perhaps the most notable aspect of this 2025 video, however, is the group dancing choreographed by Jordon Johnson and Aidan Carberry, featuring Archuleta, Amy Cheng, Nico Lonetree, and Jongo Zeizel.

 

Los Angeles, June 26, 2025

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (June 2025).

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