{"id":181748,"date":"2023-02-08T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=181748"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:17:50","slug":"grammy-winning-unholy-not-shocking-just-cringy-and-tasteless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/grammy-winning-unholy-not-shocking-just-cringy-and-tasteless","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning \u2019Unholy\u2019: Not shocking, just cringy and tasteless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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-ee-oh-ee-oh, he left his kids at
Ho-ee-oh-ee-ome, so he can get that<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis song is definitely on repeat 24\/7. After going incredibly viral, everyone must have \u2019Unholy\u2019 by Sam Smith and Kim Petras lyrics stuck in their minds, right?\u201d (Stylecaster<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though obviously millions of people share this opinion (the official video has 126 million views on YouTube so far), the remaining billions of Earthlings beg to differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By now, almost all media outlets have reported on this year\u2019s Grammy winners, with two cringiest moments stealing the show \u2013 the Satanic performance of \u2019Unholy\u2019 by Sam Smith and Kim (formerly Tim) Patras, and Madonna\u2019s \u201cnew\u201d face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I generally tend to steer clear from electronic noise that has been freed from any grammar, style and cohesion, and is instead rife with elliptic, clipped and hard to understand words \u2013 i.e. what is known as \u201cmodern music.\u201d But when something makes headlines, it\u2019s difficult not to see it (though I wish I had an \u201cunsee\u201d button in my head) or to avoid seeing it. This piece that\u2019s supposed to be a song is apparently popular and the celeb audience at the awards seemed to be delighted when it won the Best Pop Duo award. They cheered at the performance. Clapped and shouted in approval. But that\u2019s Hollywood, so don\u2019t even try to look for common sense there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked up the \u201cartists\u201d and they turned out to be a \u201cthey\u201d (a male who identifies as non-binary) and a \u201cshe\u201d (a male who claims to be a woman), Sam Smith and Kim Patras, essentially two white males \u2013 but since they\u2019re not asserting their whiteness or maleness, then all\u2019s well and it\u2019s not white supremacy, patriarchy or anything like that. Nothing new there.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo: Chris Pizzello, AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The piece is aptly named \u2018Unholy\u2019, because the human actions it talks about are definitely that. And it would be commendable if the non-male pair were raising their voice against infidelity, adultery and the breaking up of the family. However, if that were the case, the piece would actually be a sad and tragic song, stirring up deep emotions in the audience, moving people to tears over neglected children and a woman who ends up with a cheating pervert of a husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet it seems rather like a celebration of that imagery, and reasonable people may wonder why. Doesn\u2019t the left want women to be respected and loved? Doesn\u2019t the left want children growing up in complete families, with a present father? If there\u2019s hue and cry against men today for beating and leaving their wives (\u201call men are violent rapists\u201d, etc.), why would anyone want to glorify and celebrate something along those lines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But of course, we know what this is all about and it goes something like this: \u201cConservatives fight for \u2019family values\u2019 and similar BS, so let\u2019s show them what their \u2019happy families\u2019 really look like. Hypocrites!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, any time of the year is offend-the-Christians time so why not come up with a Satanic ritual for the performance of the piece, in glaring red, with non-male Sam wearing high heels and a horned hat, dancers flicking whips, and everyone on the stage making all kinds of sexually explicit gestures and moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April 2022, in an interview for Billboard<\/a>, the non-male Sam said, \u201cI think joy for me, and for a lot of queer people, is quite a dangerous place. … We\u2019re all masters of pain, and I think it\u2019s actually a very courageous act to step into the queer joy of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo: Lester Cohen\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There, straight from the horse\u2019s mouth: joy is a dangerous place for queer people, they are \u201cmasters of pain\u201d… Yes, we definitely received that message thanks to all the BDSM costumes and props at all pride parades, as well as in this performance, which was broadcast on nation-wide television network at 8 pm, for all ages to see. \u201cQueer artists\u201d have done their best these past years to show us loud and clear that \u201cqueer joy\u201d goes hand in hand with kink, body mutilation, fetishism, pornography, orgies and generally forces on the dark side. (Remember Lil Nas X doing a lap dance for Satan?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eye-stabbing colors, jarring voices and sexualized strip club dancing that we saw and heard in this performance were not \u201cshocking\u201d or \u201cscary\u201d as some headlines suggest in an attempt to get more clicks. Most conservatives didn\u2019t \u201cmelt over \u2018Unholy\u2019 Grammy performance\u201d<\/a>, they didn\u2019t \u201close it.\u201d They were disgusted, yes, and also reaffirmed in their resolve to not watch meaningless award ceremonies such as the Grammys, the Oscars and the lot, and to cancel their subscriptions (if they haven\u2019t done so already) to channels such as Netflix<\/em>, Disney+<\/em>, HBO<\/em> Max<\/em> etc. (because Cuties<\/em><\/a>, Lightyear<\/em><\/a>, Strange World<\/em><\/a>, Unpregnant<\/em><\/a>\u2026) and instead opt for the Great American Family<\/em>, Pure Flix<\/em>, Angel Studios<\/em> and DailyWire+<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all honesty, is there anything in this piece that aspires to be called a song and the way it was performed that we can say came as a surprise or a shock? A shock would be to see women and men dressed decently, singing beautifully using actual words put together into verses that have an actual meaning and tell a story, or convey emotions, or draw attention to a critical social issue, or even criticize the government, mainstream media or culture, conformism, elitism or other social weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And no, people are not afraid that \u201cdemons will jump out of the screen and grab our kids\u201d, and though it\u2019s true that you have the choice of turning the TV off if you don\u2019t want your children to see it, in order to do that, you would need to be warned ahead that a show aired at 8 pm contains scenes inappropriate for younger audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, we can safely say that the performers worship Satan because they obviously worship themselves above all else, and that is the path of the fallen ones. Also, as Evie Magazine writes<\/a>, symbols used in the performance \u201care identical to the imagery that is listed on the Church of Satan website<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The non-male Sam and non-female Kim performing a Satanic ritual is like seeing spoiled children making a mess at home to draw their parents\u2019 attention. But with these grown-up children it\u2019s not shocking, just cringy and tasteless. Makes you feel thankful that you didn\u2019t have to be there and watch all that live, with no option to hit pause or close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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