He later added, “I want to make it a normality because this is a non-issue. People wouldn’t ask a straight person these questions. Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely Dan Meet the Creators and Activists Leading Social Media's Next Wave I’ve made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody – whether it’s a guy, a female or a goat – and everybody can relate to that.” I’ve tried to be clever with this album, because it’s also important to me that my music reaches everybody. Regarding his past relationships, the 22-year-old said that he had never been in a relationship before, only “unrequited relationships.” His experience with the man who inspired In the Lonely Hour left him in what he described as a lonely and “very dark” place.
Smith eventually told the man that he had inspired the album, and he is glad he did. “It was good as a form of closure, to get it off my chest and tell him,” he said. See the original story at ’s all there now, and I can move on and hopefully find a guy who can love me the way I love him.” I feel almost like I signed off this part of my life where I keep giving myself to guys who are never going to love me back. The album’s team of producers gives Smith a mostly blank canvas to showcase his vocals, providing room for soaring riffs over fingerpicked guitars on “Not in That Way” and “Leave Your Lover.” But neither leaves as indelible a mark as Smith’s lost love has left on his heart. Elsewhere, though he reaches for his upper register with the same eagerness that he grasps for love, his emo hopelessness is a flood drowning everything in sight. He rolls deepest on the gospel-powered “Stay With Me” – a spare track with a simple arrangement that matches its bare plea – and “Like I Can,” a blissful groove that packs a Seventies rock-radio punch. Rolling Stone: Sam Smith dazzles in ‘SNL’ debut But while the album flirts with a few radiant moments, Smith’s endless yearning isn’t wrapped in as many irresistible packages. With In the Lonely Hour’s orchestral flourishes and focus on a single unrealized affair, it seems the baby-faced singer is being positioned as a male Adele.
Rolling Stone: Sam Smith comes out, says debut is dedicated to unrequited love Smith – a gifted blue-eyed-soulster with Barry Gibb’s flexible falsetto and Mark Ronson’s ear for throwback grooves – got noticed last year for his vocals on house duo Disclosure’s slow jam “Latch.” Soul Singerīritish singer Sam Smith, 21, has written a dissertation on the question with his debut LP. Rolling Stone: Who Is Sam Smith? A Quick Primer on the U.K.
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