"Addict" is a song composed by YouTube musician Silva Hound performed by Michael Kovach as Angel Dust and Kelly "Chi-Chi" Boyer as Cherri Bomb. First released as a single on Hound’s YouTube channel on February 14, 2020. A fully-animated music video by Vivienne Medrano was released on her official channel on July 17, 2020 which gained over 17 million views. The song has since then been streamed on Spotify for more than 1.6 million times.[1]
Lyrics
Till death do us part
But we're already past that phase
This is a brand new start
And I think I deserve some praise
For the way that I am
Despite having overdosed
And ending up comatose
I don't give a damn
I've let my emotions go
Fuck being a sober hoe
This is the mantra
This is my life
You're playing with now
Till the end of the night
Surrounded by fire
The passion ignites
A hit of that heaven and hell, a helluva high
I'm addicted to the madness
This hotel is my Atlantis
We're forever gonna have a fucking reason to sin
Let me leave my soul to burn and I'll be breathing it in
I'm addicted to the feeling
Getting higher than the ceiling
And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end
Just concede and give in to your inner demons again
Yeah you fell in love
But you fell deeper in this pit
While death rains from above
So count your blessings cause this is it
You're not letting it go
So what if I misbehave
It's what everybody craves
You already know
So come if you're feeling brave
And fancy yourself a mate
You want it, I got it
See what you like?
We could have it all
By the end of the night
Your money and power
My sinful delight
A hit of that heaven and hell
A helluva high
I'm addicted to the madness
This hotel is my Atlantis
We're forever gonna have a fucking reason to sin
Let me leave my soul to burn and I'll be breathing it in
I'm addicted to the feeling
Getting higher than the ceiling
And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end
Just concede and give in to your inner demons again
Just concede and give in to your inner demons again
I'm addicted to the feeling
Getting higher than the ceiling
And we're never gonna want this fucking feeling to end
Just concede and give in to your inner demons again
I'm addicted to the sorrow
When the buzz ends by tomorrow
There's another rush of poison flowing into my veins
Giving me a dose of pleasure that resides by the pain
I'm addicted, I'm dependant
Looking awesome, feeling helpless
And I know I'm raising cain by every highway in hell
Maybe things won't be so terrible inside this hotel
Trivia
- Fat Nuggets makes its first animated appearance in the official animated clip of this song.
- During Cherri's scenes, a one-eyed figure makes an appearance. This figure bears an uncanny resemblance to Izzy, a character from Vivziepop's previous work Zoophobia, though it is unknown if it is the same character.
- Travis is shown to have survived the car crash he got into in the pilot and revealed to be one of Angel’s regular patrons.
- An early reel design of Fat Nuggets taken from the prequel comic can be seen in a poster in Angel’s hotel room during the after-credits scene.
- In the animated clip, many of the OCs from the animators and artists of Hazbin Hotel can be seen.
- A remix album of the song is available on YouTube.
- The ending "Hazbin Hotel" logo was animated by Michael Boggs, who initially made the logo as just a fan animation.[2][3]
- Austin Kalista, who was previously an animator for the SpindleHorse short "Holidaze", also helped work on this short. He previously made a series of Hazbin Hotel fan animations before being inquired by Viv.
- According to Austin, he re-watched a scene in Disney’s animated film, Mulan, in order to copy the way the smoke traveled from Angel’s cigarette in the after-credits scene.[4]
- The second chorus briefly acknowledges Angel’s love of aquariums, especially blobfish and angelfish. As it shows him and Cherri Bomb having fun in a club with an aquarium in the background that reaches the ceiling. Coincidentally, a blobfish can also be seen in one of the shots.
- In the original, Angel sings about how the hotel might not be as bad as he thought in the epilogue, while in the French dub, he sings about how he wishes to be redeemed and to be able to escape to Heaven.
Errors
- Angel’s left sclera was colored incorrectly during the second chorus.
- The temples of both Angel and Cherri’s glasses disappear throughout the scene wherein they are worn.
- During the scene wherein the two were pole dancing, there is a frame wherein Cherri’s stomach is not colored in.
Cherri’s stomach is not colored in
- During the scene wherein Angel's facing backwards, just before he sings the line “Just concede and give into your inner demons again.”, the heart-shaped patch of fur behind his head is missing.
- The patch of fur appears to be missing again during the scene wherein he sings the line “We’re forever gonna have a fucking reason to sin.”
- The design of Cherri’s usual outfit changes throughout the music video, most notably the length of her shorts.
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