Fresh off of "Unholy," their wonderfully sordid collaboration with recent first-time — and history-making — GRAMMY winner Kim Petras, five-time GRAMMY winner Sam Smith is back — now with a certain seven-time GRAMMY-winning '80s icon next to them.
That's right: Sam Smith has teamed up with Madonna — who suggestively announces herself as such — on "Vulgar," a seductive, electronic banger, out today.
The newly released collaborative track can be rooted back to the 2023 GRAMMYs when Madonna — delivering a fiery, heartfelt speech — introduced Smith and Petras ahead of their provocative performance of "Unholy" on the GRAMMY stage. (The latter pair won a GRAMMY for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Unholy” that same night, making them the first nonbinary and transgender artists to win that GRAMMY category.) The immediate day after, Smith, with their fifth GRAMMY Award in hand, recorded “Vulgar” with Madonna in a Los Angeles studio.
Smith — who co-produced "Vulgar" themselves, along with ILYA for MXM Productions, Cirkut, Omer Fedi, Ryan Tedder, Jimmy Napes, and Madonna’s vocal producer and engineer, Lauren D’elia — last released Gloria in January 2023.