About the Song
When Ozzy Osbourne released “Scary Little Green Men” as part of his 2020 album Ordinary Man, longtime fans were in for a surprise. This wasn’t your typical doomsday ballad or confessional cry from the Prince of Darkness — it was something stranger, lighter, and more surreal. Wrapped in theatrical production and tongue-in-cheek lyrics, “Scary Little Green Men” blends sci-fi fantasy with subtle commentary, all delivered in Ozzy’s unmistakable voice, equal parts whimsy and world-weariness.
At its core, the song is playful — a galloping rock anthem about extraterrestrials watching, judging, or perhaps even controlling us. Lines like “They’re coming for you, yeah / They’re coming for you” are sung with a dramatic flair that leans more toward comic book camp than cosmic horror. But beneath the alien imagery and pulsing rhythm lies something else: a not-so-subtle metaphor about paranoia, isolation, and the feeling of being othered — themes that Ozzy has wrestled with for decades.
Musically, the track is energetic and modern, mixing heavy riffs with electronic flourishes, layered backing vocals, and slick production. It doesn’t try to recapture the rawness of his early days with Black Sabbath; instead, it embraces the theatrical edge of late-career Ozzy — a performer who has nothing left to prove, and everything left to say in his own unique way.
And let’s not forget the accompanying teaser video, featuring Jason Momoa as a snarling, larger-than-life Ozzy-like figure — a perfect symbol of the song’s comic-book grandeur and dark charisma. The visuals, like the song itself, walk the line between absurd and awesome.
In the end, “Scary Little Green Men” is less about aliens and more about identity: the masks we wear, the forces that shape us, and the strange ways we process being misunderstood. Only Ozzy could turn a song with a sci-fi title into something that feels so oddly… human.