Sam Smith's "Unholy"
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Anonymous
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can anyone explain something about the lyrics for me? (I've been obsessed with this song for DAYS now, I'm playing it everywhere I go constantly.)
So basically is it a secret gay romance between someone represented by the singer (a gay man/affair partner) a married, fakely straight man in the closet? And what does "body shop" mean, because that line makes me think of the store. Damn i love this song tho! |
Anonymous
| Body shop is meant to be a strip club, men's sauna, type of place. |
Anonymous
| Very catchy tune. Was high on the billboard charts, too, several months ago, |
Anonymous
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It was the number one Billboard Hot 100 song in October of last year.
From billboard: "Sam Smith featuring Kim Petras’ ‘Unholy’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100" Sam Smith and Kim Petras‘ “Unholy” ascends to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, marking each artist’s first leader on the list. The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 29, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 25). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. “Unholy,” released on EMI/Capitol Records, tallied 25.3 million streams (up 9%), 21.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 40%) and 19,000 downloads sold (up 60%, aided by 69-cent sale-pricing, as well as the release of live and instrumental versions and Disclosure and Acraze remixes) in the Oct. 14-20 tracking week, according to Luminate. The single tops the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts for a fourth week each and jumps 44-25 on Radio Songs. sam smith “Unholy” debuted at No. 3 on the Oct. 8-dated Hot 100 and spent its next two weeks each at No. 2 prior to its coronation, as it becomes the 1,143rd No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 64-year history. It was released Sept. 22, after Smith and Petras began teasing the single on TikTok in August, and its official video premiered Sept. 30. As announced Oct. 17, the song appears on Smith’s forthcoming fourth LP, Gloria. This is both Smith & Petras’ First No. 1. Smith and Petras each reached top of the Hot 100 for the first time, Smith with their 20th entry on the chart and Petras with her first. Smith had previously reached a No. 2 top peak with “Stay With Me”, among seven total top 10s. “I just really don’t want to be the last,” Petras told Billboard. “I’m just happy that Sam gave me the chance to shine here and that fills me with a lot of joy.” |
Anonymous
+1. There's an LA strip club called The Body Shop, but it's also a kind of generic name for a strip club. There's one with that name in PG County as well. |
Anonymous
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Unholy was written by the songwriting "hit making dream team": James Napier, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Henry Walter, Blake Slatkin, and Omer Fedi.
Here is the meaning of the song. Unholy is a song about an adulterous relationship. The singer talks to a man who is cheating on his wife and cannot keep things quiet. The rumors have spread, even though his wife doesn’t know about them yet. In the song, Kim Petras plays the role of the girl the man is cheating with, interpreting her as a woman playing with a sugar daddy. The song’s beginning explains that the wife doesn’t know yet that her husband is a cheater. The first lines describe the act of cheating as “something unholy”: "Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop Doing something unholy" Then Sam Smith talks directly to the cheater, and the words they pronounce are full of disgust: "Lucky, lucky girl, she got married to a boy like you She’d kick you out if she ever, ever knew ‘Bout all the s**t you tell me that you do Dirty, dirty boy, you know everyone is talking on the scene I hear them whisperin’ ’bout the places that you’ve been And how you don’t know how to keep your business clean" They are obviously taking the part of the wife, who doesn’t know he’s a cheater. He should feel lucky to have her. Instead, he acts unrespectfully and cannot even keep his actions secret. The song’s dark mood highlights how the referred actions are wrong. Using the term “unholy” implies a divine perspective on the situation. God’s judgment is invoked on it and rely on His punishment, eventually. The lines sung by Kim Petras show the dirty perspective of the girl the man is cheating with: she’s only looking for money and benefits from this relationship, and she does her part to cover him when needed. "Mmm, daddy, daddy, if you want it, drop the addy Give me love, give me Fendi, my Balenciaga daddy You gon’ need to bag it up, ’cause I’m spending on Rodeo (Woo) You can watch me back it up, I’ll be gone in the AM And he, he get me Prada, get me Miu Miu like Rihanna He always call me ’cause I never cause no drama And when you want it, baby I know I got you covered And when you need it, baby Just jump under the covers" Unholy is an accusation of infidelity, and the meaning behind the lyrics is: your behavior is unacceptable, and you don’t deserve the woman you have as your wife. I’m not asking you to be careful or fix it because you don’t even get to earn my help. You are out of the behavior a good man should have. I condemn your actions as something unholy and hope somebody will do justice. The complete lyrics Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop Doing something unholy Lucky, lucky girl, she got married to a boy like you She’d kick you out if she ever, ever knew ‘Bout all the s**t you tell me that you do Dirty, dirty boy, you know everyone is talking on the scene I hear them whisperin’ ’bout the places that you’ve been And how you don’t know how to keep your business clean Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop Doing something unholy He’s sat back while she’s dropping it, she be popping it, yeah She put it down slowly Oh, he left his kids at home So, he can get that Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop, doing something unholy (Woo) (Kim Petras) Mmm, daddy, daddy, if you want it, drop the addy Give me love, give me Fendi, my Balenciaga daddy You gon’ need to bag it up, ’cause I’m spending on Rodeo (Woo) You can watch me back it up, I’ll be gone in the AM And he, he get me Prada, get me Miu Miu like Rihanna He always call me ’cause I never cause no drama And when you want it, baby I know I got you covered And when you need it, baby Just jump under the covers Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop Doing something unholy He’s sat back while she’s dropping it, she be popping it, yeah She put it down slowly Oh, he left his kids at home So, he can get that Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop, doing something unholy From: https://auralcrave.com/en/2022/09/07/sam-smith-unholy-the-lyrics-and-the-meaning/ |
Anonymous
| He is a scumbag. |
Anonymous
Body Shop is famous a strip club (woman) in Los Angeles. |
Anonymous
Yes. That is the point of the song. |
Anonymous
No it isn't. It is about a man cheating on his wife with a younger woman and also flaunting it all over town without a care in the world. |
Anonymous
And yet still a great song. 
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Anonymous
| That was supposed to be a laugh. |
Anonymous
| Where the hell did you get that it was about a gay romance? Did you even listen to the lyrics? |
Anonymous
I thought that at first too. It seemed more in line with Sam Smith's brand to be calling something like that out. |
Anonymous
Yeah but like I said, did you even listen to the lyrics? Kim Petras is clearly the other woman and is calling her lover daddy and expecting gifts and talking about jumping under the covers with the man. How would you ever get that this is about a gay romance? |