California Rocket Fuel

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"California Rocket Fuel" was the first music video to be released from Siren and Sir and was one of the songs that could be heard on the "1" album. It was released on YouTube on December 21, 2019 and made private on August 8, 2020. It is three minutes and forty-four seconds long.
(Trigger Warning: Medication, onscreen drug overdose, emetophobia, suggestive material, blood, gore)
== Events ==
The video opens on clouds, which part to reveal Sir's house. The camera then cuts forward to Sir's bedroom window, which opens by itself, the curtains moving with the wind. The camera goes through to then show Sir asleep in bed with morning wood. Inside of Sir's room, his alarm clock shows that it is 06:59 in the morning, and the calendar shows that it is on February, with the twentieth circled in red ink. When the clock turns to 07:00, Sir sits up in bed, and turns the alarm off. As he removes the covers so that he can prepare to get up, he shakes his head, his ears down. He stretches, and there's a fade to black to transition to Sir in front of the sink in the bathroom. He is holding a medication tablet in the palm of his hand, and a water cup in the other. He takes the medication orally, then drinks water. He then looks into the mirror, and takes a few deep breaths, which fog up the mirror. 
In a flash of light, there's a cut to Sir walking through the arch into the kitchen from the living room. He is smiling, and swipes a hand over his tuft of hair. The camera zooms out to show Kristen and Daniel already seated at the dining table, and eating their respective breakfast of mixed fruit oatmeal. Matt can be seen behind Sir in the living room window watching them. Daniel is talking to Kristen when they both look over, noticing Sir. Cut to Kristen, Sir walks over to her and kisses her on the cheek, taking a strawberry from her breakfast to eat. Kristen is visibly amused by this, then frowns when he runs away from her. She looks over at Daniel, then shrugs, smiling again.
Cut back to Sir's room, he takes his backpack off of his desk. As he does this, the clock turns from 06:59 to 7:00. Sir, seemingly noticing this, looks over at the clock for a split second, but then walks away anyways. The camera then flips around to pan up from a back shot of the alarm clock, to Sir's closed door. Sir walks up to the door and puts his hands on the knob, attempting to open the door. He struggles for a bit, and then finally the door swings open while he falls on his rear end. The blinding white light from doing this causes Sir to shield his eyes, and he then has a dizzying kaleidoscope vision.
Sir looks at his hands, which have changed from the smooth, digital art style to a hand-drawn animation style. Cut to Sir on his bike, smiling, as he pedals forward on the sidewalk of Heath Street, past Silver Spur. When he passes Silver Spur, his bike takes flight, and he's taken up into the air. He does a double spin as he pedals forward. As Sir rides his bike over the town, a shop called Neris can be seen, as well as Victor in his Halloween pencil costume actually writing on the sidewalk with the pencil part of it. There is someone standing against the wall near him. Sir looks down at the town for a moment, before continuing. He rides far away from the surface of the planet into space, where most of the North American continent can be seen. There's a red star in the area around northern Florida and southern Georgia. There is also a yellow kite that gets struck by lightning in space. 
Sir steers away from the planet in the direction of the moon, where drugs such as TZ-3 (mirtazapine) and W-75 (effexor) can be seen surrounding him like an asteroid belt as he rides toward the moon. As he pedals, he's eventually hit by an effexor tablet, which sends him falling back to the planet's surface. While he's falling, he suddenly gains a white parachute, and is smiling as he falls into the chimney of his house. 
Sir lands on his feet in the entrance of his bedroom, looking around dumbfounded. The art style has returned to normal. Just as he looks over at his alarm clock, it turns from 06:59 to 07:00. Sir's ears are down, and he looks at his hands again, this time changing to resemble the classic rubber-hose animation art style. Sir looks up from his hands, smiling and walking confidently. The environment has suddenly changed to the outside of Oakdale Wells High School. 
As Sir walks through the hallway of the school, Incidental 1 and Amber notice him, also having changed to fit the art style. Sir high-fives Jock 2, and Jock 1 is also smiling at him. Sir comes to a stop beside Cora's locker, which she closes before seeing him standing there confidently propped up on the locker next to hers. He smooths out his hair, and flashes a finger gun at her. He winks at her, and she walks away smiling. As this all happens, there are side effects listed on the screen: nausea, nervousness or sweating, erectile dysfunction, and blurred vision. 
Suddenly, Sir is frowning, and it cuts to the original art style, with Sir on the floor of the hallway, his eyes rapidly dilating and his body convulsing, with vomit staining his mouth and on the floor around him. His head is in Ponytail's lap as she desperately tries to comfort him, speaking to him, her hand smoothing out his hair. Jock 1 and Amber are looking down at him, shocked, and then begin to vomit. Incidental 1 also vomits at the sight of Sir. 
The kaleidoscope vision happens again, this time with Sir's spirit leaving his body. Cut to space once again, Sir is flying to the moon, with school desks and chair around him, as well as pictures of his family, including Daniel, Matt, and Kristen. As Sir swims through space, he stops, looking over at a portrait of him and Cora on their wedding day hand in hand, smiling at each other. As he holds the portrait in his hands, they kiss, then look at him, shrugging. They kiss again as Sir looks at the portrait. Gravity then reactivates as Sir falls back down to the planet's surface, this time falling into a deep body of water. 
The family portraits and desks still surrounding him, Sir looks over at something off screen with a worried expression. Cut to Victor swimming at him, leading Jock 1 and Jock 2 to Sir with a mischievous expression. Sir swims away, and eventually makes it out of the water, running onto a beach, then stopping to open his pockets. As he looks down at the shoreline, Victor's head pops out of the water, though he's now extremely small, as well as having the body of a spider. Sir is completely flabbergasted. As Victor laughs, then looks up, Sir's foot squishes him, leaving behind a yellow-black mess on the sand. 
Sir runs away into the forest, whose trees include pill bottles hanging from the branches, as well as Kristen's dildo. As Sir puts his feet into the ground to come to a sudden stop, he is soon approached by Kristen (tiger), Mr. Tim (moose), Daniel (brown bear), and Cora (giraffe) all in animal form. Sir is horrified and quickly leaps away into the cockpit of a cartoon-ish rocket ship. He presses the big red button on the control panel and then pulls the lever that causes the rocket ship to take off. On the control panel, there is an acronym that spells out T.H.I.C.C, and a flashing screen that says "sex immediately". The rocket ship soars into the air, flying for a while, before exploding, filling the screen with bright white light. 
There's a repeat of the beginning scene. The clouds part on Sir's house, and the camera comes in through Sir's self-opening window. In his room, the camera zooms in on Sir's alarm clock and his phone. When his alarm clock changes from 06:59 to 07:00, Sir gets a text message, and the sender has Victor's face as their profile picture. It says, "Hey Sir do you want to come over?" 
== Captions ==
=== YouTube ===
Sir started sharing his daily life at Oakdale Wells High back in July. Over the months, the good, the bad, and everything else in between has led him to this moment. Is Sir hallucinating? Did he overdose? Is he in a coma? Look for the clues and follow Sir’s story now, social links below. Get the album and other merch on sirenandsir.com
[Links to the official website, Instagram, and Facebook.]
=== Instagram TV and Facebook ===
Sir started sharing his daily life at Oakdale Wells high school back in July 2019. Over the months, the good, the bad, and everything else in between has led him to this moment. Is sir hallucinating? Did he overdosed? Is he in a coma? Look for the clues and follow his story.
== Trivia ==
# According to Sir, this is a dream of his he had on the night of December 18, 2019.
# Neris is Siren spelled backwards.
# Sir's ride on his bike through the sky and space is likely a nod to Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which included a famous scene where the alien character of the movie caused the main character's bike to take flight in the woods, flying them through the sky and in front of the moon. It's a very whimsical and often referenced scene. 
# While Sir is flying through space as a spirit, initially all the portraits in the scene are of Daniel. In the next shot, it includes Matt and Kristen along with him. 
# On Dream Island, Kristen is the only character not in a completely black shadow, and can be seen before everyone else comes into view. 
# Both the T.H.I.C.C acronym and sex immediately are references to the fandom's sexualization of Sir's mom, Kristen, as well as the meme itself. 
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