The Recording Industry Association of America certified it double Platinum for sales over2 million copies. The British Phonographic Industry certified it Gold with sales over 400.00 copies. The single topped the charts in the UK and Scotland. Sam Smith – Jimmy Napes – Elvin Smith Label Release dateįirst release Febru– Re-release Febr– Red Nose Day 2015 release was on MaSongwriter/s It was released on Red Nose Day (March 9, 2015) as a charity single and all revenues from this single to benefit the charity. The third release featured John Legend in a new video showing the latter playing the piano and singing while Smith on the Mic in a recording studio. I’m walking in, I’m going, ‘Why? Why are a man and a man not allowed to get married in this room?’ Because it’s the most natural thing.” In another interview Sam said: “With this video myself and Ryan Hope the director have decided to make a statement and showcase something we passionately believe in.” “Going to the church today, it’s like, this is the first time we’ve let people with big noses in.’ That’s the equivalent to me. It’s obviously not a real marriage, but still.” He then added: “The priest just said to us, ‘We’re going against the rules by doing this today,’ which I thought was a lovely element in the video.
In an interview with Rolling Stones, Smith said: “Obviously gay marriage isn’t legal in churches, and we’re doing a gay marriage today, in the church. The end of the video shows that Smith was just remembering how it all happened, marriage and death of his partner in the same church. The video finds Smith performing in front of what appears to be a mournful funeral but turns out to be a joyous gay marriage. The controversial music video was filmed at the parish church of St. The more I make music, the closer to myself I feel.“Lay Me Down’ is a sad song, about losing someone and expressing how much you miss them. Each time I make an album, I learn to like myself a little more. A lot of my life, probably because of a lot of internalised queerphobia, and queerphobia around me, I felt ashamed of myself and not being able to fully be myself through my music. “When I look back at Love Goes, it reminds of the courage it took. “I felt at one point that I was going to be trapped onstage wearing a suit and singing ballads for the rest of my life,” said Smith. The album, Smith said ahead of its release, allowed them to heal after their first true break-up.
That third LP should have arrived in early 2020 in the form of To Die For, but, amid the global pandemic, it was delayed, reworked and renamed with the more sensitive title of Love Goes. The aching melancholy of love, loss, and yearning for someone to spend their days with was still present, but this time, it was all being mined for invigorating music to help dance the blues away.
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It has always been clear that Smith’s power lies as much in that voice as in an unwavering bravery to put their innermost feelings-loneliness, confusion, desperation, desire-on full public view.īy the run-up to album three, however, Smith was also ready to have a little more fun.
This second album saw Smith-by then an Oscar winner for 2015’s Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall”-open up about instant fame and embrace their status as a gay role model, against a backdrop of stirring, gospel-infused balladry. That arrived with 2014’s Grammy-winning In the Midnight Hour, an exquisite meditation on unrequited love, and its follow-up, the heartbreak-inspired The Thrill of It All. They revealed that elastic falsetto, but didn’t quite hint at the sadness that would define the outrageous success to come. “Music is literally my best friend it’s a release, a form of diary and therapy.”īorn in London in 1992 and raised in Cambridge, Smith first began gaining significant traction in 2012 with a pair of dance hits-Disclosure’s “Latch”, and Naughty Boy’s “La La La” the following year. “I’ve never shied away from telling the truth in my music,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020. It’s hard to think of many artists in 21st-century pop who could match the vulnerability of Sam Smith.
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