Sam Smith And Kim Petras Perform Their Smash ‘Unholy’ At The 2023 Grammys

Sam Smith and Kim Petras adopted up their history-making Grammys victory on Sunday with an epic efficiency of their smash single, “Unholy.”

Smith started the quantity in crimson leather-based, flanked by a troupe of dancers that resembled Samara, the ghostly antagonist of “The Ring.” As for Petras, she danced in a S&M-style cage as fireplace rose from the stage behind her.

At one level, Smith leaned into the hellish vibe of the efficiency by donning a high hat accentuated with satan horns.

Smith and Petras have been fittingly launched by Madonna, whose look had been saved principally beneath wraps till then. No stranger to stirring controversy by melding sacred and sexually specific imagery, the Queen of Pop described the pair as “two incredibly talented artists” who have been “forging a new path and taking the heat for all of it.”

“You guys need to know ― all you troublemakers out there ― you need to know that your fearlessness does not go unnoticed,” Madonna said. “You are seen, you are heard and, most of all, you appreciated.”

Earlier within the night time, Petras thanked Madonna in her acceptance speech after she and Smith received the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Smith, a four-time Grammy winner, turned the primary nonbinary artist to win the award, whereas Petras, a first-time Grammy nominee, turned the primary brazenly transgender lady to take action.

“Unholy” seems on “Gloria,” Smith’s newest album and the beginning of their self-proclaimed “villain era.” The single hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which ranks the 100 hottest songs within the U.S., in October of final yr.

Both the tune and the album have made Smith, who got here out as nonbinary in 2019, the goal of heavy criticism and body-shaming.

Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Smith revealed that they needed to push again in opposition to document executives who have been against their new sound and trend selections previous to the discharge of “Gloria” final month.

“I also had people telling me that what I was doing, the way I was living my life, was affecting my record sales and that I was trash,” they defined. “It’s homophobia and transphobia that’s structural and it’s in people. Even the people that are very loving and liberal and love me, they say things they don’t realize [are] hurtful.”