Crucified
Duration: 5:12
Track number: 3
Times played live: 0
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Lyrics by: Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda
Music by: Alexander Bard, Jean-Pierre Barda
Theme
Ghost's dark metal interpretation of Army of Lovers' 1991 synth-pop song elevates the original's religious imagery and homoerotic undertones into something heavier and more provocative. The title itself—'Crucified'—invokes Christ's suffering, while the song's themes of desire, temptation, and forbidden pleasure become weaponized within Ghost's irreverent theological framework. By metalizing a queer synth-pop anthem and recontextualizing it within Satanic imagery, Ghost performs an act of reclamation: transforming the marginalized and the taboo into instruments of power and aesthetic defiance.
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