Timothée Chalamet is winning — and not just at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where he took the best actor prize on Sunday night.
The 29-year-old SAG victor for “A Complete Unknown” — in which he transforms into Bob Dylan — is also winning over indie artists who are calling out Chalamet’s name in song.
Singer-songwriter Kate Eberstadt is the latest to give titular tribute to the star of “Call Me By Your Name,” “Dune” and “Wonka” on her new single “Timmy Chalamet.”
On the breezy, bittersweet breakup song, she sings, “I wanna drink champagne with Timmy Chalamet/Alone in the church in the middle of the day/Go to confession, tell him what I wanna say/I wanna drink champagne with Timmy Chalamet/Chillin’ in the chapel watchin’ ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’”
The song was inspired by the Brooklyn-based artist’s real-life split. “The person that I had been dating and living with and I thought that I was going to marry broke up with me over the phone,” Eberstadt, 33, told The Post. “I was spiraling and just felt lost.
“And I had recently re-watched ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ and was just so moved by Timothée’s performance in that movie… especially the fireplace scene where he’s crying by the fire. It just felt like pure heartbreak happening right onscreen, and I felt like he would understand what I was going through.”
But Eberstadt says that she isn’t necessarily pining over Kylie Jenner’s man in the song.
“It’s definitely up for interpretation,” she said. “I think there are some kind of discreet romantic undertones in the song. But I think, even more than that, to me it’s [about] just connection and, like, feeling lonely … And wouldn’t that be fun to just escape all your problems and go hang out with your favorite celebrity or some artist that you really admire?”
It’s a bond that Chalamet has made with young artists of his generation who both idolize him — for his talent, style and heartthrob looks — and relate to him.
“I first of all just admire him a lot as an artist. He’s really an artist’s artist,” said Eberstadt. “There’s also something about parasocial relationships. We kind of just feel close to people that we see on those big screens all the time, and with social media, that’s even more true and more real.”
But with Chalamet, there’s a familiarity despite his fame. “For my generation, we all had that kid in our theater class,” she said. “We know that kid.”
Eberstadt was among the thousands who attended last October’s Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest at Washington Square Park in NYC’s Greenwich Village. “I saw so many people feeling the same way that I felt in the flesh,” she said.
But she actually had a closer connection to Chalamet than most.
“We were almost in, like, similar circles, because he was in the NYC theater world, and so was I,” said Eberstadt. “And also he was at Columbia University at the same time that I was there. Some of my friends were either friends with him or, like, interacting with him somehow. So we were, like, one degree away from each other for a little bit.”
Now, the “Call Me By Your Name”-inspired video for “Timmy Chalamet” is out this week — just as he vies for best actor at the Oscars on Sunday.
“It really is serendipitous timing,” said Eberstadt, whose solo album “Heaven on Earth” will be out in June.
But she’s not alone in showing musical love for Chalamet. Here are some other artists who have also been keeping in tune with Timothée.
The Foxies, “Timothée Chalamet”
This Nashville-based power trio is in a Chalamet chokehold on this blissful bop from 2021.
Sample lyrics: “I get lost in the look on your face/When you talk to me like Timothée Chalamet/When I’m dreamin’, when I’m awake/I need somebody like you or Timothée Chalamet”
Sofy, “Timothée Chalamet”
This British indie popster coos about Chalamet on this guitar-charged come-on from 2023.
Sample lyrics: “Touch me while you call your ex then/You call me by your name/What would the neighbors say?/While we’re French kissin’ in the car/Timothée Chalamet”
Gah Ming, “Timothée Chalamet”
This Canadian artist mixes hip-hop and Beck-esque alt-rock as he vibes out about Chalamet on this sexy, moody groove from 2021.
Sample lyrics: “Ain’t no other on your brain/Than Timothée Chalamet/At the Chalamet cabaret/With some Timothée supper, Chalamet gourmet/Timothée Chalamet, as charming as a summer day/Timothée Chalamet, I mean what else is there to say?”
Phxlxp featuring BoyHiram, “Chalamet”
This 2023 Chalamet shout-out low-key flexes like the two-time Oscar nominee to a trap-pop beat.
Sample lyrics: “Skinny boy swag rockin’ Timbs, call that Chalamet/Chalamet paparazzi when I walk in … Camera flash ‘cause I’m walking with the swag now/You about to lose all your fans, you should tap out”
Riley Aaron, “Chalamet”
While Chalamet was at the center of a love triangle in 2019’s “Little Women,” the same year he was also the subject of this hip-hop homage.
Sample lyrics: “My life is a movie/Cameras wanna shoot me/’Cause I look like I’m Timmy/And she f—king wit’ me/But you just wanna date ’cause I look like Chalamet/Girl get out my way, you just tryna ride my wave”
Ravin McKelvy, “Timothée Chalamet”
On this bouncy pop ditty from 2022, McKelvy has dreams of finding a Timothée Chalamet to call her own.
Sample lyrics: “I saw you stare from across the room/Got out my chair and made my way to you/You pulled me close just so you could say/Call me by your name, I’ll be your Timothée Chalamet”
Hippies and Assassins, “Timothy [sic] Chalamet”
Chalamet was once a rapper by the name of Lil Timmy Tim while attending NYC’s La Guardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, so he might pimp-stroll along to the gangsta groove of this 2024 hip-hop track.
Sample lyrics: “They should put me in the movies like Timothée Chalamet/Facebook moms call me Timothée Chalamet/Bitch with me look like Zendaya/Like Chalamet”
Julia Kate, “Timothée Chalamet”
This California songbird longs to escape away with Chalamet on this diary-entry fantasy from 2022.
Sample lyrics: “Timothée Chalamet, take me away … Call me by your name and I’ll let you in/Let’s ditch this crowd, they’re way too loud/They’re bumming me out”
Nefarious Vigilante, “Chalamet”
This Brooklyn underground rapper puffs his chest out as he makes like Chalamet on this 2022 track.
Sample lyrics: “Inflate my ego/My insecurities washed away/I feel like I’m Chalamet/About time I caught a break”
Maisie Peters, “Timothée Chalamazing”
This British singer-songwriter made up this Timmy tune on the “Not Another Love Song” podcast in 2021.
Sample lyrics: “Timothée, I like your hair/And I’d cling to you like the clothes you wear/And I don’t know if you’re awarе/What you mean to me/Oh Timothée, I’m always therе”