Songfacts®:

• "Messy In Heaven" starts off in eye-raising fashion as Venbee imagines Jesus Christ taking cocaine. As the heavenly dance track progresses, the singer pictures the Son of God exhausted and crushed after ministering to people daily from dawn to dusk. He gets little sleep and is at a breaking point.
  
  Venbee said "Messy in Heaven" is not a "religious song, or meant to offend anyone. It's simply about how some of the best people put others before themselves. As a result of this, sometimes they fall into a downward spiral."
• Venbee wrote "Messy In Heaven" with the song's producer, Andrew Goddard, along with Dan Fable and Tao Goddard. The night before the session with her three co-writers, she "had a dream of Jesus walking down the high street looking very intoxicated." Venbee told her co-writers about the dream and the song wrote itself.
• Venbee previously collaborated with Manchester-based singer-songwriter Dan Fable on her breakthrough single "Low Down." British Drum & Bass artist and producer Andrew Goddard is best known for his 2021 single "Nicotine."
• "Messy In Heaven" is an anti-drug anthem inspired by someone close to Venbee who struggled with addiction. "It's a song about someone that doesn't put themself first and finds themself in a really dark place," she explained to NME. "Metaphorically, it's saying that no matter who you are, you can still fall down a difficult path – and it's nobody's fault. I'm aware it's a controversial message, but it's also a conversation starter."
• This won Bass Track of the Year at the BBC Radio 1 Dance Awards 2022.