The ceremony of 2023 Grammy Awards held in the early hours of Sunday, February 5, continues to line up. To the list of winners and a few speeches of thanks, we must add one of the performances of the evening. Especially the one that features Sam Smith and Kim Petras. The two artists, who won the golden gramophone for best pop duo/group song for Impious, They performed this song live for spectators and other gala guests. And it seems that they raised blisters and did not leave anyone indifferent.
After seeing the show they put on from the big auditorium in Los Angeles, conspiracy theorists and the more conservative sector of the United States have accused them of carrying out “a satanic ritual” on the scene. Even a politician, Senator Ted Cruz, went so far as to share several tweets on his Twitter profile that collected opinions denouncing Impious to incite minors to worship Satan and that it was emetic; He even went so far as to publish that he found it “bad”.
well this time there was no need to mention Bloody Mary’s name three times in front of the mirror so that the highest institution that represents Satan on Earth has ruled, by allusion, on the actions of Kim Petras and Sam Smith and that performance satanic.
The Church of Satanthrough fellow member David Harris told TMZ that what Petras and Smith did at the 2023 Grammys was “fine” and “not particularly special or noteworthy.”
In the end though Impious lowers those present into the very underworld thanks to a set of red lights and costumes reminiscent of the classic iconography of the devil, there performance it was “satanic, but not really”; that is to say, not enough for them, on the one hand, to make such serious accusations or, on the other, to be proud of what has been seen on television.
But what was a source of pride was knowing that the German singer co-author of the aforementioned theme became the first trans woman to win a Grammy Awardbreaking barriers and dedicating its awards to other “transgender legends” of the music scene, such as Sophie —a Scottish artist who died in 2021 at the age of 34—, “who assured me that this would happen and always trusted Thank you for the inspiration, Sophie, I adore you and your inspiration will always be in my music.”