Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ song “Unholy” is still making queer music history. The sultry pop track topped the Billboard Hot 100 on Monday, making Smith and Petras the first nonbinary and trans artists, respectively, to reach No. 1 on the singles chart since its 1991 inception.
It also happens to be the first song with a music video featuring a gay porn star (Paddy O’Brian) to cinch the chart’s top spot. “Unholy” had previously spent three weeks in the Billboard Hot 100’s top ten.
This isn’t the first boundary-breaking milestone that Smith and Petras’ duet has reached. Earlier this month, “Unholy” reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excluding U.S. charts.
Comments 3
If this horrible song is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, I thank Gawd I haven’t heard the other 99. Don McClean was half right – the music has died – it just wasn’t in a plane crash in 1959.
“Kim Petras & Sam Smith make queer music history..”
God I HATE that word. Gay (in my case), lesbian, bi, trans or whatever…but NOT queer, OK??!!
‘Queer’ was the derogatory homophobic slur of choice here in the UK throughout my teenage years. All that stuff about ‘reclaiming’ the word is bullshit. Would the LGBT community be happy if the word ‘faggot’ was used instead? No. So let’s fuck off ‘queer’ for good.
Aside from that, how did you like the song?