So, the first burning question on everyone's mind: whose sex tape is this song for? These girls'. Incidentally, this was NOT an AI-generated image, it was drawn and painted by the original poster on Bluesky.
I guess a little backstory is needed, huh? Well, let's take a trip all the way back to 1993 when a game was released for the Super NES, Sega Mega Drive, and Windows 3.1: Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, a game that was absolutely whacked shitless with tiny little esoteric jokes, such as Bubsy (the player character) beginning each new game with 9 lives. He's a bobcat, you see, and cats have 9 lives, right. Anyway, Bubsy proved to be a marketing powerhouse for the relatively small-time 3rd party developer, Accolade*; in that the development team managed to achieve their goal of having "a game as fast as Sonic and as deep as Mario", which they accomplished by using kids as game testers much in the same way as toy companies. After a fairly strong start, someone decided to make Bubsy into a series. So, naturally, Accolade scattered the original development team and absolutely no one who worked on Claws Encounters worked on Bubsy II. What could possibly go wrong? Well, that could. Executives eager for a hit always fuck stuff up. II was released on the same systems, plus the Game Boy, and it managed to attain wildly-mixed reviews. Still, it was good enough for a 3rd game, then a 4th. The 4th game, however— the PS1 exclusive Bubsy 3D— had to compete directly with Super Mario 64 and was released long enough afterwards to be seen as derivative. Also, 3D had to deal with the original "32-bit" style PlayStation controller, which rather limited where players were allowed to go, relative to the full-exploration of Mario 64. So, despite its strong start with Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, Bubsy floundered and then was forgotten by 1997.
* Incidentally, this was the same Accolade that Sega of America sued, the outcome of which legalised the creation and use of game console emulators.
At the same time Bubsy II was reaching its climax, another development house, Crystal Dynamics, arrived on the scene with a potential saviour for the floundering 3DO console: Gex. The player character was a wisecracking movie-addicted gecko who was trapped in the Media Dimension by a tyrannical network executive. Fortunately, Gex was also released on PS1, Sega Saturn, and Windows 95, letting the unpopular and expensive 3DO fall back into oblivion where it belonged. This was followed by a Mario 64-like 3D platformer in Gex: Enter the Gecko and another in Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko. After such a strong start, the series just sort of vanished. As of the time of writing, it still hasn't made a reappearance.
Bubsy re-entered our pop-culture frame in 2017 when The Woolies Strike Back was released on PS4, and again in 2019 with Paws on Fire for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. A 7th game, Bubsy 4D, is (as of October 2025) currently under development.
So, that brings us to our first stop on the Fandom Express. For a grand long while (possibly as many as 25 or as few as 10 years), fan artists have been pairing Bubsy with Gex as their dream OTP. Something about the fact they both give off power bottom vibes, I don't know. Maybe they don't and that's just me. Anyway, '90s niche videogame enthusiasts on social media have just sort of taken it for granted that Gex and Bubsy are in some kind of intimate relationship.
Well, hey. Guess who else is one of those '90s niche videogame enthusiasts on social media? Voice actor, Sean Chiplock. Like, how can he not be one? He's only about a year older than I am. Anyway, in case you managed to miss the caption on the picture I linked to up there, this particular piece of fanart was commissioned by Sean, which, under ordinary circumstances, would not be significant, however it happens that he's playing the voice of Bubsy in 4D.
I'm not much on shipping, myself. But, I do have a handful of OTP's, and one of those is Gexubsy. And, as you probably know if you've heard "Get to You", I can be persuaded to write music if I notice something significant happening in fandom. In that case, it was a comic someone made about Tammy and Tina being in theatre. In this case, well... I mean, the inspiration is right there. We have transfem Gex and transfem Bubsy, wearing emo outfits and kissing deeply in a spotlight. Like I said about that Tinammy stuff, you can't pass this sort of thing before my eyes and not expect me to write music about it.
There are a few major differences between Tinammy and Gexubsy that influenced the direction I took with the music. FIrst, Tina and Tammy are 13. Gex and Bubsy are probably in their 30s or 40s.
Second, the interaction between Tina and Tammy had only implied romantic undertones, nothing concrete, and nothing to suggest that it was 2-sided. Here, there's no implied romantic subtext, it's pretty blatant. Gex and Bubsy are actually kissing, and not just an innocent "first peck on the lips" kind of deal. Right? Those skirts are coming off before long and Bubsy's gonna climax while making an ahegao face. If instrumental music could be rated the same way as films are in the United States, "Get To You" is PG, "Celebrity Sex Tape" is NC-17, and not just because of the titles. Everything about this song was intended to sound like sex; the tempo, the slinky electric guitar, the room-shaking bass drum, the '90s pop clave click, the R&B strum, resolving progressions on the 4th, right. This is NOT an innocent song!
Since this is supposed to be a love song for a couple of '90s game characters, I tried to restrict myself to instruments that composers at the time would have had, with the exception of the stock Image-Line stuff. So, we've got the OMI Universe of Sound library, the Roland Soundcanvas series, and of course the E-MU sonar pong, courtesy of Grant Kirkhope and Eric Serra. Like I told R last night, it's like if softcore porn had a PS1 soundtrack. Also, it's worth noting that the Roland SC-55 played a substantial part in the soundtracks to both Bubsy 1 and Gex. I'm a gear geek, it's no co-incidence that it appears here too.
"Celebrity Sex Tape", written by Tina V. Rosenthal (Badgraph1csghost). No AI was used in composing or producing this song.
Any but personal use of this song is subject to restrictions.
