Does it still count as queerbait if they’re hot? Who’s to say!
Charlie Puth’s new music video for his single “Left and Right” with BTS member Jungkook left some fans speculating whether the two were meant to look as entangled as they were, and it seems like Charlie is confirming that all the rumors are true.
Over the weekend, the “Light Switch” singer re-posted a comment on the video to his Insta story that said the pair was being portrayed as “occupying each other’s mind.”
charlie reposted someone’s youtube comment where they assumed that the ‘left and right’ mv was about two guys occupying each other’s minds,, pretty obvious but still !! pic.twitter.com/NiPTVP4gn9
— jungkook admirer (@dreamjeons) July 3, 2022
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Charlie has been a big fan of BTS for years, even performing with them at the MGA Awards back in 2018, and his bromance with his new collaborator is well-documented.
In a radio interview just before the video was released, he made sure to emphasize that he thinks “Jungkook is a very attractive human.”
he said what pic.twitter.com/2NNsDFeZwl
— lau (@jksjugs) June 24, 2022
Mr. Puth has been called a queerbaiter on social media more than a few times (most often just for his huge propensity for thirst trapping), but this latest turn feels like just another fun bit of fan service.
Naturally,, there’s a distinct difference between queerbaiting and just being a little thotty on the ‘Gram:
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The video features only Jungkook and Charlie (and his Freud-esque analyst) as they sing to one another “You take up every corner of my mind/Your love stays with me day and night.”
Even the titular sound of one “I can feel you over here” in the left ear followed by another in the right comes to be traded off by the pair in the final chorus, as if it were a call-and-response between two distant lovers.
With Charlie re-posting the comment commending their connection and calling for “normalizing” it, it seems the closeness between the two male stars was purposeful.
Check out the gay subtext-filled “Left and Right” video…
bachy
Not one of Charlie’s best… but why is a seminude photo of a straight guy considered “queer-baiting”? I don’t care for all of this flagrant, straight male-bashing. Are they not allowed to show a little flesh, or appear in a video with a close, same-sex friend without gays complaining about it? Is a seminude photo of a straight woman considered lesbian-baiting? I don’t get this nonsense. I would think they were trying to attract the attention of people they are themselves attracted to. Gays certainly engage in enough thirst-trapping, so why are we complaining when straights do it?
Oh, and ps: I love you, Charlie. You continue to do you, I love that for you!
mikhailmaui
Bachy, you nailed it. Was just talking to a friend yesterday about this crap. We both love Shawn Mendes, and we could care less about his sexuality. Same with Charlie. Straight men should be allowed to pose in their underwear or for that matter nude if they want without a bunch of queens running around putting in their two cents worth on a subject that is quite honestly NONE of their business.
scotty
Korean guys have some of the best looking faces that i’ve ever seen. bodies as well. the human male form is seductive in many ways.
Jack
Just proof that younger people find it completely normal admitting their attractions, interest and curiosities without any shame. The new fluid sexuality is what’s up. No queer baiting seen in that video.