11 Gloriously, Infernal HELL Songs

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11 Gloriously, Infernal HELL Songs features songs courtesy of Dua Lipa, Kanye West, Lizzo, Rina Sawayama & Sub Urban.

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ell yeah, it’s getting damned up in here… well, down here, technically. Okay, so much for ‘knocking it out of the park’ ⚾ with the intro! Man, oh, man do we have some sweet condemnation for you 😈. You, my loyal Musical Hype-ians, are going to HELL 😈! I’m not sure what you should do to combat the fire 🔥, but where the musical fire 🎶 🔥 is concerned, I recommend a good set of headphones 🎧 or some lit speakers 🔊.

go to hell Of course, you’re not really going to hell, though I can’t speak to your religious beliefs ✝ or lack thereof – that’s on you! What I can speak to is the hellish 🎧 11 Gloriously, Infernal HELL Songs, which features songs by 🎙 Dua Lipa, 🎙 Kanye West, 🎙 Lizzo, 🎙 Rina Sawayama, and 🎙 Sub Urban among others. So, what the hell are you waiting for? Let’s get this hellish ride started, shall we?

1. Rina Sawayama, “This Hell”

💿 Hold the Girl • 🏷 Dirty Hit • 📅 2022

Just know, “This hell is better with you / We’re burning up together / Baby, that makes two.” Woo! 🎙 Rina Sawayama returned strong in 2022 with 🎵 “This Hell”, the promo single from her sophomore album, 💿 Hold the Girl. Although things are utterly hellish, the ear candy and musical excellence that Sawayama serves up is anything but! There’s no way in hell that “This Hell” could be omitted from his hell-driven compendium 😈!

“This Hell” commences with energetic production (🎛 Paul Epworth and 🎛 Clarence Clarity) in the form of a compelling groove and a lit melodic guitar line. After the introduction, when Rina Sawayama begins singing, the sound of the record changes, revealing a couple of unexpected tricks Sawayama and company had up their sleeves. Positively, early on, this eliminates predictability. Ultimately, the verses have a different harmonic scheme compared to the pre-chorus, as well as the chorus, which the instrumental intro highlights. In the verses, Sawayama keeps shit all the way real. “Saw a poster on the corner opposite the motel,” she sings in the first verse, continuing, “Turns out I’m going to hell if I keep on being myself.” Yep, that’s what so many of us are fed. She’s basically like, ‘fuck it,’ “God hates us? Alright then / Buckle up, at dawn, we’re riding.” Woo! Similarly, in the second verse, Rina’s flipping birds, criticizes the paparazzi for how they’ve destroyed countless female celebs, and shows incredible resolve when she asserts, “That Satan’s looking thirsty, not even he can hurt me.” Even though she’s got her “Invitation to eternal damnation,” Sawayama responds by saying, “Get in line, pass the wine, bitch.”

2. Sub Urban & Bella Poarch, “Inferno”

💿 HIVE • 🏷 Warner • 📅 2022

“No halo / Baby, I’m the reason why Hell’s so hot / Inferno.” Wow! 🎙 Sub Urban and 🎙 Bella Poarch make 🎵 “INFERNO” (Hell) sound heavenly – at least from the listener’s perspective! As you’d expect a song about hell must be set in a minor key. Clocking in at just shy of two-and-a-quarter minutes, Bella and Sub make sure they bombard us with high quality. Released as a single in 2021, “Inferno” graces Sub Urban’s 2022 debut album, 💿 HIVE.

I heart the instrumental intro on “INFERNO,” which sets the tone, prefacing the full-fledged, colorful production work. Notably, the classical music cues utilized are sweet. Where the vocals are concerned, I love the playful, expressive vocals by Bella Poarch. Sub Urban, likewise, matches those playful vocals. Notably, he sings in an undertone. Overall, there’s a novel nature to this track that makes it really intriguing. Melodically, it’s well-penned and tuneful to the nth degree. Furthermore, the lyrics are successful.

“Manic like a chandelier, crack the ceiling

Marie Antoinette ‘cause she’s lost her mind

Falling for exteriors, as appealing

As they might be, I know I’m afraid.”

Ultimately, “INFERNO” is a glorious, worthwhile, ear-catching two-and-a-quarter minutes.

3. Greyson Chance, “Hellboy”

💿 Trophies • 🏷 GCM / Arista • 📅 2021

“Velvet on the floor / Writings on the wall / Let me come a little closer, get you elevated.” Ooh la la! From the onset of 🎵 “Hellboy”, 🎙 Greyson Chance delivers sexy vibes, period. The hellish single ultimately appears as the seventh track on Chance’s album, 💿 Trophies, released in 2021.

“Hellboy” was written by Chance alongside 🎼 ✍ 🎛 Mike Robinson and 🎼 ✍ Seth Ennis. It is a suggestive record without being truly explicit – you could say that it doesn’t cross the line. Robinson also serves as the producer on this sleek, sexy joint. The chorus is sure to get you hot and bothered:

“Ooh, there’s a fire burning

Baby do you feel it?

Don’t you let it go, let it go out

Ooh, burning a simple blue

It’s like a forbidden fruit

And I want it so, want it so.”

Furthermore, the post-chorus continues the irresistible, truly stimulating experience. Understandably, Greyson Chance is indeed a ‘hell boy.’

“Hands tied, bite your lip
Green light, flip and twist
Dark magic, red boot kick
I’m a hell boy, I’m a hell boy
Your eyes on my hips
Damn right, you want this
All night, yeah, I might give you hell, boy
I’m a hell boy.”

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4. Lizzo, “Good as Hell (Remix)” (Ft. Ariana Grande)

💿 Cuz I Love You (Super Deluxe) • 🏷 Nice Life / Atlantic • 📅 2019

“So, girl, if he don’t love you anymore / Then walk your fine ass out the door.” Attitude! 🏆 Grammy-winning pop artist 🎙 Lizzo had a tremendous year in 2019, including success with the song 🎵 “Good as Hell.” “Good as Hell” originally appeared on her 2016 EP, 💿 Coconut Oil. It became a hot commodity, made hotter via 🎵 “Good as Hell (Remix)” featuring 🎙 Ariana Grande, which graces the Super Deluxe version of 💿 Cuz I Love You.

“Good as Hell” is indeed, good as hell. The vocals from Lizzo are on-point, filled with energy. The personality she infuses into her performance, coupled with brilliant production work by 🎛 Ricky Reed makes this a totally infectious, can’t-miss, sub-three-minute gem. Adding Grande, particularly with a degree of control and subtlety, works out well. Lizzo remains the star, but Grande provides a nice contrast, sneaking in on the second half of the second verse. From there, the two trade lines or sing together with remarkable results. By the final chorus, the duet is quite ripe, giving listeners some epic ear candy – or something like that. Even if you’re a dude, who can resist:

“And do your hair toss, check my nails

Baby, how you feelin’ (Feelin’ good as hell).”

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5. Kanye West, “Heaven and Hell”

💿 Donda • 🏷 Def Jam • 📅 2021

“Know the Lord my bulletproof vest (Is on Earth) / When we survive, know that we blessed / Save my people through the music.” Woo! Do I overuse the word, vibe? Yes, but it’s the perfect way to describe a certain aesthetic – a feeling. On his lengthy 10^th studio album, 💿 Donda, 🎙 Kanye West creates a vibe many times. A prime example comes on the 🏆 Grammy-nominated album’s 14^th track, 🎵 “Heaven and Hell.”

🎵 “Heaven and Hell” samples 🎙 20^th Century Steel Band (🎵 “Heaven and Hell Is on Earth”). The resulting timbre is must-hear. Kanye West only delivers one verse but it’s intense – incredibly passionate.

“Make this final, make this, my eyes closed

Burn false idols, Jesus’ disciples

I can feel your pain now, I done bled my vein out

New level the game now, simulation changed.”

Even his sound effects on the outro, against this alluring backdrop, make “Heaven and Hell” endearing.

6. Kesha, “Raising Hell”

💿 High Road • 🏷 Kemosabe / RCA • 📅 2020

For 🎵 “Raising Hell”, who better for 🏆 Grammy-nominated pop artist 🎙 Kesha (Kesha Sebert) to ‘raise hell’ with than bounce phenom, 🎙 Big Freedia? As the title suggests, “Raising Hell” is an incredibly energetic pop joint from her 2020 studio album, 💿 High Road. In addition to the feisty title, Sebert is feisty and ‘turned up’ early on.

Following a tame first verse, she drops ‘the bomb’ on the pre-chorus, which is part of a contradictory sentiment you might say:

“I’m all fucked up in my Sunday best

No walk of shame ‘cause I love this dress

Hungover, heart of gold, holy mess

Doin’ my best, bitch, I’m blessed.”

Essentially, she seems to be owning the fact that she’s rough around the edges. She’s no saint, but doing her best and is blessed, nonetheless. Big Freedia plays a superb supporting role to Kesha throughout, bringing that attitude. The production by 🎛 Omega and 🎛 Stint is respectable, matching the energy of both performers. Hell is raised indeed!

7. Ozzy Osbourne, “Straight to Hell”

💿 Ordinary Man • 🏷 Epic • 📅 2020

Metal icon 🎙 Ozzy Osbourne made an intriguing comeback in 2020. After a decade-long hiatus as a solo artist, he returned with 12^th studio album, 💿 Ordinary Man. While Osbourne is past his prime, he sounds reinvigorated throughout Ordinary Man at the ripe young age of 71. Osbourne kicks things off hellishly to say the least with 🎵 “Straight to Hell”.

“Your dance be dead so we must celebrate / I’ll make you scream; I’ll make you defecate.” My God!. Musically, aside from a brief, semi-celestial intro, the hellish tone arrives early on with hard-rocking, heavy guitars leading the charge. Additionally, there are pummeling drums, and energetic, ‘infernal’ vocals from Ozzy Osbourne. This three-and-three-quarters-minutes-long number is consistently intense. Lyrically, there’s some ‘shock’ from Ozzy, such as, “Enjoy the ride, I’ll plant my bitter seed / You’ll kill yourself and I will watch you bleed.” Damning by all means. That said, it’s the chorus where Ozzy is taking us “Straight to Hell tonight,” repeatedly for that matter. “Straight to Hell” doesn’t supplant Osbourne’s many classics, but it definitely rocks – hellishly, I might add.

8. Billie Eilish, “All the Good Girls Go to Hell”

💿 WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? • 🏷 Darkroom / Interscope • 📅 2019

“All the good girls go to Hell / ‘Cause even God herself has enemies / And once the water starts to rise / And Heaven’s out of sight / She’ll want the devil on her team.” Wow, 🎙 Billie Eilish, wow! The teenage alternative artist makes a bold statement with the minor-key 🎵 “All the Good Girls Go to Hell,” not to mention her full-length debut album, 💿 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?.

Eilish’s vocal approach is low key, yet also packs a punch at the same time. Specifically, what makes “All the Good Girls Go to Hell” intriguing are the religious references, likely an eyebrow raiser with the religious crowd. In addition to the ‘God’s enemies’ lyric, Eilish also references Peter (“Peter’s on vacation, an open invitation”) and Lucifer (“My Lucifer is lonely / There’s nothing left to save now / My god is gonna owe me / There’s nothing left to save now”).

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9. $uicideboy$, “Lighting the Flames of My Own Personal Hell”

💿 Long Term Effects of SUFFERING • 🏷 **G*59 • 📅 2021**

New Orleans rap duo 🎙 $uicideboy$ (🎙 Scott Arceneaux Jr. and 🎙 Aristos Petrou) work seamlessly to concoct music that is edgy, grimy, pessimistic, unapologetic, and violent. While some of those characteristics are disturbing, the inspiration is often elements of their own lives. On their 2021 album, 💿 Long Term Effects of SUFFERING, Arceneaux Jr. and Petrou use various personas to deliver short, yet intriguing performances. On the brief 🎵 “Lighting the Flames of My Own Personal Hell,” 🎙 Northside Shorty and 🎙 Southside Shorty are the personas embraced.

“Came up from the slums, walking product of the ghetto / I can’t feel my face but feeling great as the vice goes…” Northside (Arceneaux Jr.), speaks about his come up, following a life with no shortage of hardship: “From pentagrams to Instagram, how I mainstream the 6 / Them boys can hate, I got their fate, suck on my dick.” Woo! Southside (Petrou) has a similar, hard-knock past:

“Mixin’ up milligrams with millimeters, nine in the chamber

Got thirty inside the heater, bloody nose, I smell the reaper

Smoke surrounds my steps, I’m either chokin’ on my breath or reefer

Coughin’ ‘til my death, I’m eager, leaving all my fans as grievers.”

If nothing else, $uicideboy$ keep it REAL!

10. Dua Lipa, “Hotter Than Hell”

💿 Dua Lipa (Complete Edition) • 🏷 Warner Music UK • 📅 2018

“I got new rules, I count ‘em.” English pop musician 🎙 Dua Lipa got off to a bold start in her career. Thanks to her fierce, breakout hit single, 🎵 “New Rules”, she’d secure the 🏆 Grammy for Best New Artist at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards – more would come, of course. “New Rules” isn’t the only surefire bop from 💿 Dua Lipa (originally released in 2017, with the Complete Edition arriving in 2018). 🎵 “Hotter Than Hell”, for example, is more celestial than its hellish title suggests!

“Can you feel the warmth? Yeah, / As my kiss goes down you like some sweet alcohol.” Wow! Within the context of Dua Lipa, “Hotter Than Hell” serves as another production victory (🎛 Stephen “Koz” Kozmeniuk), anchored by a thudding four-on-the-floor beat (early-on) and sleek synths. Vocally, she’s in her zone, showcasing her rich, robust lower register on the verses, and growing more gritty and powerful in the chorus. Lyrically, she seems to want to have her ‘cake and eat it too.’ Why? Because she paints herself as an angel – “the answer to your prayers” – yet she’s somewhat blasphemous at the same time.

“‘Cause I’m hot like hell

Does it burn when I’m not there?

And you’re by yourself

Am I the answer to your prayers?

I’m giving you that pleasure, heaven

And I’ll give it to you

Hotter than hell

Hotter than hell.”

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11. Tom Hulce & Tony Jay, “Heaven’s Light / Hellfire”

💿 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Original Soundtrack) • 🏷 Disney • 📅 1996

Disney animated films aren’t absolved from controversy. In 🎦 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), the themes are considered, at times, inappropriate for children. This is by far the most mature rated G Disney movie of the Renaissance era (should’ve been rated PG). One of the most accomplished and controversial parts of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the song, 🎵 “Heaven’s Light / Hellfire”, penned by 🎼✍ Alan Menken and 🎼✍ Steven Schwartz. Because of the religious component, inspiration, and sometimes, source material, comes from elements of classical liturgical music. This is a song of contrasts finding Quasimodo (🎙 Tom Hulce) performing the more hopeful, major-keyed “Heaven’s Light,” while Judge Claude Frollo (🎙 Tony Jay) performs the darker, more enigmatic, and twisted “Hellfire.”

Given the hellish tilt of this list, we’ll move beyond Quasimodo’s “Heaven’s light” – “And as I ring these bells tonight / My cold dark tower seems so bright / I swear it must be heaven’s light” – into Frollo’s “Hellfire.” It doesn’t commence devilishly, with the choir singing in Latin. Initially, once Frollo (Jay) begins singing, he affirms his righteousness, proclaiming, “Beata Maria / You know I’m so much purer than / The common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd.” Woo, licentious, huh? With interspersed Latin continuing, Frollo speaks to Beata Maria about his lust for Esmeralda (“I feel here, I see her / The sun caught in her raven hair / Is blazing in me out of all control”). Of course, this prompts the darkest moments of the song, the infernal chorus: “Like fire / Hellfire / This fire in my skin / This burning / Desire /Is turning me to sin.” Frollo absolves himself of guilt, blaming, Esmerelda! To Maria, he petitions:

“Don’t let this siren cast her spell

Don’t let the fire sear my flesh and bone

Destroy Esmeralda

And let her taste the fires of hell

Or else let her be mine and mine alone.”

Wow – a lot to unpack there! Frollo explores righteousness, lust, and damnation – not typically children-friend topics! Zach Glass of Screen Rant breaks this masterwork down brilliantly, characterizing it as “the most intense, layered and complex songs in Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame.” He’s totally correct!

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Published by the musical hype on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022