He was not going to leave the question of his sexuality to guesswork or rumor.
He came out publicly as gay just as soon as his album was released. Smith tells me this, his eyes dampen again - it’s been just about that long since it seemed like there was anything he could do right. It’s been almost that long since he became a real, live pop star: a four-time Grammy winner with five Top 10 singles, an Oscar winner all with one measly LP, less than an hour’s worth of music, to his name. It’s been that long since his lovely, million-faceted voice called out to the bereft, the forsaken and the rejected and announced itself as this generation’s avatar of romantic despair. It’s been more than three years since his first studio album, “In the Lonely Hour,” flung the planet’s brokenhearted face down upon their beds anew with its wet-pillowed, dark-soul despondence. He’s been in love, he said, but it was unrequited. Smith’s amygdala and his tear ducts is deep and well worn. He encouraged his son to be emotionally expressive. He’s fine with his crying, what choice does he have? His father used to cry at a sunset, or after an argument. Smith began to talk about love - big, delicious tears that coated and magnified his sad, glorious blue eyeballs but never quite leaked out onto his cheeks. Yes, the floodgates really opened once Mr.
When he talked about love, he leaned back on the couch with his limbs splayed and looked upward as if he died momentarily just considering a concept so big.
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He cried talking about how much he cried when he watched the movie “Inside Out.” And he cried when he talked about love. He cried when he talked about writing “Pray,” a song from his new album, “The Thrill of It All.” He cried when he talked about the children he met in Mosul, Iraq, on a recent humanitarian mission, and then he looked down at the sparrow tattoo he got on his arm when he returned home, with “Be good, be kind” written in Arabic beneath it, and he cried again. This is a mostly complete inventory of the times that sweet, sad Sam Smith cried over the course of two hours on a couch here at the Chateau Marmont hotel on a recent Friday morning: He cried when he talked about the house he grew up in when he reminisced about a crush who turned on him when he talked about his first voice teacher. Get an eyeful of even more pop music coverage, from artist interviews to exclusive performances, on Idolator’s YouTube channel.WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. What do you think of “Reminds Me Of You”? Sound off in the comments below. Here’s to hoping this is only the first of many collaborations still to come between these two talents. “God knows I try looking for lovers at night/But each time I do, it only reminds me of you,” he agonizes across the song’s pulsating chorus - certainly one of the album’s best cuts, and one of his finest flirtations with electronica since Disclosure‘s “Latch.” Listen to the song below.Īlthough we already know Smith’s got the vocal chops to carry a song all on his own, Little’s lush soundscape takes the singer’s anguished crooning to new heights on the heartbreaking number. We were already dying for the song once a snippet surfaced earlier this month - and now, we finally get to experience the song in full.įloating across Little’s signature swirls of moody synthesizers, ambient textures and a solid thump, Smith finds himself miserably attempting to fill the void left by his former flame. “Reminds Me Of You” is a song Smith recorded with Lorde/ Broods producer Joel Little, included on the iTunes and Target deluxe editions of the record.