Angels Of Passion
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Angels of Passion is an adult film from 1986 known for being the origin of the song "Ulterior Motives," which was an unidentified lost media since 2021. The movie gained an ironic fandom in April 2024 on TikTok, as users started to post fan edits, fan art and treating the film as a "cult classic," which notably followed the discovery of "Ulterior Motives" source.
History
Angels of Passion is a 1986 adult film from CB Productions and director Jerome Bronson. An IMDb[1] page describes the movie's plot as "Two angels (Jessica Wylde & Tracey Adams) are sent back to Earth to provide some sexual satisfaction to the mortal humans" (VHS cover seen below).
The earliest online post of the film dates to May 8th, 2018, reuploaded on the adult website XHamster, as Redditor[7] user @mataabuelas4 revealed on April 28th, 2024.
On April 28th, 2024, YouTube[2] user @Ampersand127 uploaded a SFW version of the film (shown below), which amassed more than 149,000 views and 2,100 likes in three days.
Online Presence
Everyone Knows That / Ulterior Motives
On April 28th, 2024, Reddit users One-Truth-5867 and south_pole_ball made a post to /r/everyoneknowsthat[3] after discovering that the song "Ulterior Motives" comes from the 1986 adult film Angels of Passion. The song's origin has been searched since 2021 and is considered one of the key pieces of music in the lostwave canon, which is a subgenre of lost media.
On the same day, YouTube[4] user @michel9041 uploaded a "family-friendly" version of "Everyone Knows That (Ulterior Motives)" removing the sounds of intercourse during the scene, which amassed more than 227,000 views and 8,400 likes in three days.
Angels Of Passion Ironic Fandom
The discovery of Angels of Passion as the origin of the "Everyone Knows That (Ulterior Motives)" song spawned an ironic fandom and memes treating the adult film as a "cult classic."
For example, on April 28th, 2024, TikTok[5] user @wwurlds posted his ironic review of the film, giving it a 6.5/10 score (shown below, left), which amassed more than 1.8 million plays and 317,000 likes in three days. On April 29th, TikTok[6] user @void1ng posted a hand-drawn fan art inspired by Angels of Passion, which received over 720,000 plays and 125,000 likes in two days (shown below, right).
@wwurlds would i recommend, no. unless u r the fine connoisseur of the arts #angelsofpassion #ekt ♬ EKT found snippet – Jigsaw55481
@void1ng angels of passion fanart 🔥🔥 #carl92 #ulteriormotives #fanart #angelsofpassion #digitalart #animatic #arte #art #drawing #viral ♬ original sound – feyesper 🇵🇭
The adult film also became a viral topic of discussion on Reddit, as Redditor @buttegg[8] posted a full essay reviewing Angels of Passion's plot on April 29th. The post amassed more than 300 upvotes and 50 comments in two days. On April 28th, Redditor[9] Professional_Ad8214 noticed that Christopher David Booth, "Ulterior Motives" songwriter, had a cameo in the movie (shown below). The safe-for-work clip amassed over 270 upvotes and 30 comments in three days.
Christopher Saint Booth has a SFW cameo in Angels of Passion (1986)
byu/Professional_Ad8214 ineveryoneknowsthat
Related Memes
Everyone Knows That / Ulterior Motives
Everyone Knows That or Ulterior Motives refers to a short audio clip of an unidentified song that was uploaded by user carl92 to a song identification website in 2021. The three-year-long search for the song went viral on the internet, with users theorizing various possible origins for it. In April 2024, Redditor south_pole_ball discovered that the origin of the song, called "Ulterior Motives," is a 1986 adult film Angels of Passion, with the discovery going viral and spawning jokes and memes online.
Various Examples
@imyurvalentine the storyline was cool tho tbh
@alphapacifier #lostmedia #angelsofpassion #alterativemotives #lostsong #ulteriormotives #ulteriormotiveslostmedia #ulteriormotivessong ♬ Ekt lost song – Ria(madonnas version)🎀
Search Interest
External References
[1] IMDb – Angels of Passion
[2] YouTube – Angels of Passion (1986) Film
[3] Reddit – EKT HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN DISCOVERED!!
[4] YouTube – Everyone Knows That Unknown Song FOUND in full
[7] Reddit – Angels of Passion full video
[9] Reddit – Professional_Ad8214
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