
7 Sam Smith collaborations to try beyond the ballads
From early electronic breakthroughs to queer club-pop, these seven tracks put Sam Smith’s voice in very different company.
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A sexually charged electropop collaboration with Kim Petras, 'Unholy' premiered on BBC Radio 1 in September 2022 and became the lead single from Sam Smith's fourth studio album 'Gloria'. The track topped charts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and several other territories, marking Smith's first American number one and earning the pair a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 65th Annual ceremony.
Smith adopts the voice of a knowing observer, narrating a scene of marital infidelity with campy relish. The husband abandons his family for a strip club rendezvous, whilst Petras voices the dancer herself, detailing designer demands and transactional affection. The chorus refrain, Smith sings, hinges on the wife's obliviousness to her partner's nocturnal routine at the body shop, the lyric framing betrayal as spectacle rather than tragedy.
The production leans into synth-pop and dance-pop textures, the arrangement built for maximum pop impact. Smith performed the track on Saturday Night Live in an oversized hot pink ruffled gown, opening the garment mid-song to reveal Petras for her verse, the staging as theatrical as the lyric itself.
"Unholy" is a single by Sam Smith, from the album Gloria, released 27th January 2023. The track is 2:37 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Sam Smith.
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