Songfacts®:

• This song finds Chloe and Halle Bailey addressing a guy who isn't ready to commit himself to a relationship. The chemistry is there, but something is stopping him from fully throwing himself unto the romance. The sisters urge the dude to stop hesitating and show that he will love them even at the "Ungodly Hour" when they're not the best versions of themselves.
• Chloe x Halle wrote the song with the British electronic music duo Disclosure. Someone had said the phrase "ungodly hour" and Chloe wrote it down in her notes. During their session they wondered how to use the phrase and came up with the sentence, "Love me at the ungodly hour."
  
  Chloe explained to Teen Vogue it means "love me when I'm at my worst; love me when I'm not all dolled up and made up. Love me when all my insecurities are out on the table."
• Like Chloe and Halle Bailey, Disclosure is a sibling duo, comprising the brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence. They are best known for their 2012 collaboration with Sam Smith, "Latch."
• "Ungodly Hour" is the title track of Chloe x Halle's second studio album. It received widespread acclaim from music critics, with Clash, PopBuzz and PopSugar all naming it their best album of 2020.
• Chloe x Halle were child stars when they released their 2018 debut, The Kids Are Alright. Ungodly Hour finds the sisters shedding their innocence as they sing of their growth as young women. The title track finds them knowing their self-worth and happy in their bodies. "We just wanted to show that we can own our sexuality in a beautiful way as young women," Chloe told Apple Music, "and it's okay to own that."
• Alfred Marroquín (Rosalia, Sech) directed the aquatic, sci-fi video, which finds Chloe and Halle dressed as robots in blue latex jumpsuits inside a laboratory. The scene later turns to the shape-shifting sisters clad in nude-colored bodysuits lying in a shallow pool.