It was on DWTS and I think that was when I realized how… empty the lyrics are. It sounds like a final boss battle but the lyrics have the depth of mobile game background music.
Has Sam Smith finally been released from their torture? are they no longer being forced to chase Lil Nas X clout at gunpoint and allowed to return to the boring mom music they clearly prefer to make?
I think the only actual sin in that song is the amount of religious remixes a bunch of christian singers did of the song. "I'm good, yeah I'm feeling alright" levels of un-creativity.
I know most people burnt on it fast, but I still quite enjoy it. I tend to like Omer Fedi's pop productions, especially when they're forceful (see also: That's What I Want, Stay, Star Walkin'). While the subject matter is somewhat vanilla, the writing is camp enough to support the production for me
Makes for a nice contrast with I'm Not The Only One, both are ostensibly about the same thing except one is trying way too hard to be risque while the other is extremely vulnerable and personable. Someone could also compare Unholy with Call Me By Your Name, and it'd probably be decent content
Probably woulda been a better song if it wasn't Sam Smith singing it. They're one of the least sexy pop stars out there and I don't think it really works with them. But we also don't have many sexy male pop stars any more so I dunno who'd you get instead.
I just wish artist would write complete songs. Unholy feels like they released the tiktok portion and didn’t want to miss the moment so never finished the song
Mommy don't know daddy's getting hot
In the parking lot
With a bag of bologna
Then he go home and he watching "Stop!
Or My Mom Will Shoot!"
With Sylvester Stalloney
I feel this fall into a situation where both Sam Smith and Kim Petras both regret recording the song. Kinda what happen to Enrique Iglesias on Tonight.
The fact that it’s set at a place called “the body shop” always perplexed me, since that’s not a slang term at all. It sounds like he’s having an affair at a car repair shop
There's a chain here called The Body Shop that sells lotions and soaps and such, nowhere near as exciting and also the smell hits you like a freight train.
The body shop is a euphemism for a strip club. A shop where women or men show their body. It’s also a name used for stop clubs. Kinda like a bar named the office. It has built in deniability. I was at the body shop getting some work done.
It's in mine too, though it does have a lot of songs like it that fit the atmosphere if not the subjects (e.g. Luciana's "Trouble", Rihanna's "Pose" remix by FEM) or vice-versa (e.g. Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife", the 1920s-style version of "Insane").
As a non binary he/they I feel conflicted because I feel like I have to defend Sam Smith from conservative bigots but I also have to do that while acknowledging his music on the rest of the album is super bland.
The worst part about working in stores or service other than dealing with customers is the music they play. I was working at Dunkin when First Class came out and spent a truly depressing amount of time fantasizing about waterboarding Jack Harlow
I'm a cashier and I hate how many times I've heard "Under My Skin" by Sabrina Carpenter. I was legit flabbergasted when she started making anything good.
there's a song on the work radio by some shitty country guy about how GOD MADE YOU BEAUTIFUL and every time I hear it I say into a headset how much I hate it.
Really needed another 30-40 seconds minimum, enough time for one more piece to the music. I like that song but it sticks around for less time than a fart.
Hahaha, shit, I still can't believe all that gothic catholic grandeur and ominous chanting of unspeakable sin was about a shitty dude getting twerked on by Kim Petras
I've found it's a great song to break in new audio equipment. Got a new set of planar magnetic headphones at the end of last year, and Unholy sounds next level through them. While it's not the most complex song, it lends itself to being able to focus easier on the components it does have.
If there's one positive about that song, it's that it is real short.
Weird how some of the biggest songs out there are as short as some of the biggest songs of the early to mid 1960s. Although today's songs are short because they gotta get that Tiktok dough.
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I'unno. I just think it's neat.
So now that you remind me. That was one of the song of its time
(It's alright)
In the parking lot
With a bag of bologna
Then he go home and he watching "Stop!
Or My Mom Will Shoot!"
With Sylvester Stalloney
They were an artist
Weird how some of the biggest songs out there are as short as some of the biggest songs of the early to mid 1960s. Although today's songs are short because they gotta get that Tiktok dough.