Cigarettes After Sex — Apocalypse
Trending since · peaked at 112 charts
You leapt from crumbling bridges, watching cityscapes turn to dustFilming helicopters crashing in the ocean from way aboveGot the music in you, baby, tell me whyGot the music in you, baby, tell me why
The signature ballad from El Paso dream-pop project Cigarettes After Sex is broadly charting today, tracked across 112 country and platform charts after a month away. Written and produced by frontman Greg Gonzalez as the second single from the band's 2017 self-titled debut, the song built its audience slowly — it did not chart internationally until 2022, after its hushed, reverb-drenched hook spread through TikTok. It was certified platinum by the RIAA in January 2023, per Genius. The track's durability rests on Gonzalez's androgynous near-whisper and a limerent atmosphere that reads as devotion and dread at once — a love letter, in his telling, to hometown girls who wanted to see the world. Its broad presence across the charts this week continues that long, external-driven afterlife.
