Petras's verse features braggadocio and sees her asking her lover to buy her luxury clothing. In its hook, Smith sings, "Mummy don't know Daddy's getting hot/At the Body Shop/Doing something unholy"-referencing the Body Shop, the first all-nude strip club on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood-accompanied by an "oh-wee-oh-wee-oh" chant popularized by the winged monkeys from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Smith described it as being about "liberating oneself from the clutches of others' secrets". Its lyrics are about an adulterous heterosexual family man who goes to a strip club behind his wife's back to have sex. It uses the Phrygian dominant scale often associated with Indian and Arabic music and features choir-like vocals, a "grinding" bassline, a string section, and metallic hyperpop-style synths and percussion popularized by Scottish musician Sophie and the record label PC Music. Composition Ī sexually charged and campy synth-pop, dance-pop, alt-pop, industrial pop, and R&B song, "Unholy" marked a return to EDM and a shift from sentimental ballads to dance music for Smith. It was included on their fourth studio album, Gloria, which was released on 27 January 2023. It was released as a single on 22 September 2022, making it Smith's first single in two years. On 25 August, Smith announced the track's title and a pre-save link. Disclosure also teased the song, playing their remix of it in live sets. It was first teased in mid-August through a clip on TikTok, which shows Smith and Petras dancing in a recording studio to a snippet of it that went viral and spurred a trend of sexually charged, thirst trap-style videos on the platform. "Unholy" was recorded in Jamaica and produced by Ilya and Omer Fedi. Kim Petras, a German singer-songwriter, had previously made pop and dance music before "Unholy", such as their 2017 single " I Don't Want It at All". Smith came out as non-binary in 2019 after announcing their preference for they/them pronouns. Prior to the release of "Unholy", British singer Sam Smith earned global recognition for ballads released throughout the 2010s as well as occasional features on songs by EDM producers, including on Naughty Boy's 2013 song " La La La" and on Disclosure's 2012 song " Latch". Outside the United Kingdom, it topped the charts in Australia and the United States. "Unholy" entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart. It was released on 22 September 2022 as the second single from Smith's fourth studio album Gloria (2023). " Unholy" is a song by British singer Sam Smith featuring vocals from German singer Kim Petras.
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