Gordon von Steiner | Got Me Started / 2023

sexual frenzy

by Douglas Messerli

 

Sergio Reis and Mauro van de Kerkhof (choreographers), Kaelyn Behr. Jack Glass, Christopher John Stracey, Troye Sivan, Brett Leland Mclaughlin, Ian Eric Kirkpatrick, and Tayla Parx (songwriters), Troye Sivan (performer), Gordon von Steiner (director) Got Me Started / 2023 [3.16 minutes] [music video]

 

One of gay boy singer Troye Sivan’s most noted songs—perhaps, in part, because of Saturday Night Live’s Season 49, Episode 6, “Troye Sivan Sleep Demon” sketch performed by Timothée Chalamet of the same year.

    While singing truly raunchy lyrics about his love of a boy/man, Sivan dances with various groups of other young men, women and men, and alone, placing his hand often over his cock, and most notably, at one point, pulling down his bright pants to reveal his but in red underwear.

       

He's got the personality

Not even gravity could ever hold him down

He's got the sexuality of a man

Who can take a room and drown it out, yeah

 

Inching closer to sunrise

Now we're standing eye to eye

I wanna tell you what's on my, on my mind (let's go)

You just got me started

And I don't think I can stop it

And I don't wanna go home alone, alright?

Oh, baby, baby

Boy, can I be honest?

Kinda miss using my body

Fuck it - just like this party did tonight

Oh, baby, baby

Yeah, yeah

I want it, grip you tight

I've seen enough of your body

Come back and feel the vibe 

 

It’s clear the singer/dancer is possessed in a kind of sexual trance, unable to control his desires as he even straps himself to a huge lift which takes him up the side of a skyscraper to join the dance of the roof.

    Although the song itself is sung in Sivan’s usual quieted, husky tones, the choreography in this case transports it into a new dimension as he literally can hardly control the sexual excitement of his desires to grab hold of his imaginary lover and enjoy the sexual pleasures provided.

    Sivan uses his thin, willowy body to move in sexual patterns with others while sliding forward with sexual grace.

 

Los Angeles, July 11, 2026

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (July 2026).