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"Vulgar" is a song recorded by English singer Sam Smith and American singer Madonna, released as a single on 9 June 2023. Both singers wrote the track alongside Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ryan Tedder, Omer Fedi, Henry Walter, and James Napier. Background and release Sam Smith released their fourth studio album, Gloria, in January 2023. The album was supported by several singles, including "Unholy" (2022), which reached number one on record charts. Sam Smith performed the song with Kim Petras at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards on 5 February 2023, which was introduced by Madonna. While introducing the performance, Madonna gave a speech about controversy, stating: "I'm here to give thanks to all the rebels out there forging a new path and taking the heat for all of it. You guys need to know — all you troublemakers out there — you need to know that your fearlessness doesn't go unnoticed. You are seen, you are heard; and most of all, you are appreciated." The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the ceremony. One day later, Smith recorded "Vulgar" with Madonna, and called the experience "an amazing evening creating and writing and expressing". Smith began teasing a collaboration with Madonna on 24 May 2023, sharing a video clip that stated: "Manchester, we've got a surprise for you this evening. 'Unholy' won't be the last song…." The show was cancelled and the song was not premiered there, but it was teased for over a week. In May 2023, Madonna shared the song's artwork, which depicts their bodies in "a pair of tightly cinched black-and-white corsets", underneath Smith and Madonna's initials shortened to just "S&M". According to Sam Smith, both Madonna and the accompanying songwriters went to the studio the following day from the Grammy awards to record the music. Sam Smith stated the song is "very special to me", and continued saying: "Me, the QUEEN, and a group of some of the most talented people I know ... created this piece of music. The creativity was pure and the energy was alive". In a conversation with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Smith called "Vulgar", "one of the most exciting songs I've been a part of".

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“Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values—inexperienceable—which we serve.”
— Walter Benjamin, "Experience" (1913), L. Spencer and S. Jost, trans., Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, volume 1 (1996), p. 4
“Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth.”
— Walter Benjamin, "Experience" (1913), L. Spencer and S. Jost, trans., Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, volume 1 (1996), pp. 4-5
“To the Philistine, art is fancy dress for everyday toil and trouble. He snaps at ornaments like a dog at sausage.”
— Karl Kraus, Dicta and Contradicta, J. McVity, trans. (2001), #371
“Philistinism implies not only a collection of stock ideas but also the use of set phrases, clichés, banalities expressed in faded words. A true philistine has nothing but these trivial ideas of which he entirely consists.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, “Philistines and Philistinism,” Lectures on Russian Literature (1981), p. 309
“The Philistine … is a man without intellectual needs. Now it follows from this that, as regards himself, he is left without any intellectual pleasures in accordance with the principle, il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins [There are no true pleasures without true needs].”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344
“A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 345

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Notable quotes

“Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values—inexperienceable—which we serve.”
— Walter Benjamin, "Experience" (1913), L. Spencer and S. Jost, trans., Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, volume 1 (1996), p. 4
“Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was the voice of the spirit, calling him once, as it does everyone. It is of this that youth always reminds him, eternally and ominously. That is why he is antagonistic toward youth.”
— Walter Benjamin, "Experience" (1913), L. Spencer and S. Jost, trans., Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, volume 1 (1996), pp. 4-5
“To the Philistine, art is fancy dress for everyday toil and trouble. He snaps at ornaments like a dog at sausage.”
— Karl Kraus, Dicta and Contradicta, J. McVity, trans. (2001), #371
“Philistinism implies not only a collection of stock ideas but also the use of set phrases, clichés, banalities expressed in faded words. A true philistine has nothing but these trivial ideas of which he entirely consists.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, “Philistines and Philistinism,” Lectures on Russian Literature (1981), p. 309
“The Philistine … is a man without intellectual needs. Now it follows from this that, as regards himself, he is left without any intellectual pleasures in accordance with the principle, il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins [There are no true pleasures without true needs].”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 344
“A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 345

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