Smith's achievements include four Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, and an American Music Award, as well as a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Smith is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns. Samuel Frederick Smith was born on in London to Frederick Smith and broker Kate Cassidy, grew up in Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire and attended Thomas More Primary School in the village.Ģ.3 2014–2016: In the Lonely Hour and international success.2.1 2008–2009: Career beginnings with debut singles. Smith was bullied for "having breasts" as a child and had liposuction at age 12. As part of Youth Music Theatre UK, Smith appeared in the troupe's 2007 production of Oh! Carol, a musical featuring the music of Neil Sedaka. Four words to sum up Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour album – Adele 21 part II.Before entering the musical theatre, Smith had been in jazz bands.
I wonder if 21 is a word – but it is a sad album. In The Lonely Hour is made up mostly with ballads, with themes such as: longing for someone or love, anguish, unrequited-love, one-night stands, love triangle, so his music will resound to the youth, especially hopeless romantics.
While countries like South Africa and United Kingdom were lucky to get the album on 26 May, United States had to wait until 17 June. But Americans uploaded their cover versions on YouTube long before the album was released in US what does that tell us about Americans? Torrents best friends! Sam Smith released an EP titled Nirvana in 2013, which sounded more like an album. He is a 22 year-old English artist, he is a day older than me, this kid.įrom that seven, Money On My Mind, Latch and I’ve Told You Now made the cut into the album – In The Lonely Hour. I don’t care if he’s more accomplished than me… well, I’m just jealous. His talents earned him an EP Nirvana and a studio album at a fairly young age, I will break down the tracks for you, based on their popularity. He performed the first single of the album, Lay Me Down, on Saturday Night Live. This song was released in 2013, but still sounds fresh. I think everyone can relate to this song. We’ve all lost someone we wish we could lay by their side, just to see if they are alright.
Lyrics “I don’t want to be here, if I can’t be with you tonight” goes back to the theme of longing for someone, what if you cannot have that person next to you that night? But you might get lost in the song when it gets to 3:03, maybe you will forget about that person and enjoy the song. “When I signed my deal, I felt pressure, don’t wanna see the numbers, I wanna see heaven, You say, could you write a song for me? I say, I’m sorry I won’t do that happily.” Ask yourself when you wake up the next morning, are you going to work for money? power? fame? love? attention? Or just to get by… With only few upbeat tracks, one of them: Money On My Mind, served as the second single from the album, which expresses love for music and not the money that comes with it. The current song in everybody’s playlist is Stay With Me, if it’s not in your playlist, get it in there! Stay With Me has a gospel feel to it, even heathens will like – he calls it an anthem for lonely people. This song could be about a one-night stand that went wrong. Leave Your Lover is about a love-triangle, with a video that will make you start asking questions. It was co-written by Simon Aldred, who wrote People Help The People, which was later covered by Birdy, click the link to listen to it. Not In That Way, co-written by Fraser T Smith, who previously worked on Set Fire To Rain, Listen, Broken Strings, If This Isn’t Love, to mention a few… The song is about unrequited love – loving someone who does not love you back. Sam says from this whole album, the lyrics “I’d never ask you, cause deep down I’m certain, I know what you’d say. ‘You’d say ‘I’m sorry, believe me, I love you, but not in that way’” are his favorite.