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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