I’m still getting into Hazbin Hotel, but the video for Gravity stopped me in my tracks. The song is about the Exorcist angel Lute who sings alongside a hallucination of Adam. Together they express a need for retribution against Charlie and her allies after Adam’s death in season 1.
Everything about it hits at once. The vocals, the fluid animation. The lyrics feel like we are inside Lute’s head instead of watching her from the outside. It’s a portrait of someone who feels abandoned by the world she was trained to protect. Now Lute has no idea where to place all that pain.
Why the Video Hits So Hard
As she sings her black heart out, Lute destroys Adam’s office in the process. It seems weird, but it’s a clear window into her mental state.
She wants revenge for Adam, but she is tearing apart everything he built. Everything he cared about. Everything he actually valued. Lute is so focused on her own pain that she’s blind to the damage she’s causing to the memory she is supposedly protecting.
If Adam walked in on that scene, he would have been furious. She is letting the grief turn her into someone who can’t see past the rage. Someone who thinks destroying the things he loved is the same as honoring him.
That’s the darkest part. Lute is convinced that no one else appreciated Adam. In her mind, keeping his items from “unworthy hands” means destroying them. She thinks she is honoring Adam, but she is actually erasing him.
Adam’s Presence Is About More Than Grief
Lute hallucinating Adam during the song shows how badly she’s coping with his death. Her mind is reaching for the only person who ever made her feel understood. He was the one who believed in her. The one who trusted her as his second in command. Losing him wasn’t just losing a friend or a leader. She lost the very thing that held her together.
On top of that, season 2 of Hazbin Hotel implies that Lute was secretly in love with Adam. The show never states if Adam knew or felt the same way. That’s probably the point. Now that he’s dead, we’ll never know what could have been and neither will Lute.
Beneath the Revenge
Once you peel back all the different layers, Gravity isn’t just about wanting revenge. It’s basically a mental breakdown presented in the form of an awesome song.
Lute isn’t dangerous because she is angry. It’s because she has become unhinged. She has guilt for failing Adam. Rage for losing a battle she thought would be a simple win. She feels resentful towards Heaven as more angels reject her vendetta against the Sinners in Hell’s Pride Ring. And she has no outlet except through violence and obsession.
In the end, “Gravity” is less about what Lute wants to do to Charlie. It’s about what she’s doing to herself. It’s the story of someone letting grief get the better of them. Lute is convinced destroying Charlie will set things right.
It won’t and deep down, the song knows it.
