Angels Of Passion

About

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."

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." 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 safe-for-work version of the film (shown below), which amassed more than 149,000 views and 2,100 likes in three days.

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Related Memes

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 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)," 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, 2024, 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.

The adult film also became a viral topic of discussion on Reddit, as user @buttegg^[8] posted on April 29th, 2024 a full essay reviewing Angels of Passion's plot. The post amassed more than 307 upvotes and 51 comments in two days. On April 28th, 2024, Redditor^[9] noticed that Christopher David Booth, "Ulterior Motives" songwriter, had a cameo in the movie (shown below). The safe-for-work clip amassed over 276 upvotes and 30 comments in three days.

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