Sam Smith is gay.
Do you care? I sure couldn’t give a toss, the only thing that matters about Sam Smith is that every damn thing he sings is better than the song he sang before it. In the UK, his awesome new single “Stay With Me” is at one in the charts and in the States, from his Disclosure song “Latch” to his Nirvana EP to the three songs currently available from the In The Lonely Hour album are all straight aces. In The Lonely Hour is a modern day In the Wee Small Hours Of The Morning.
Considered the main contender to Adele’s well rusted crown, my money is on Sam Smith to break humongous in the States and he deserves it. I wanna go to the Apollo gig June 17 th but it is a very busy week and I wanna go to the September Hammerstein gig but that is so far away, tickets went on sale yesterday for Hammerstein, Apollo was a fast sell out.
But back to the gay non-issue. This is what Smith told Fader: “A guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn’t love me back. I think I’m over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn’t felt love before. I’ve felt the bad things. And what’s a more powerful emotion: pain or happiness?
“My life is amazing in that respect. I’m very comfortable and happy with everything. I just wanted to talk about him and have it out there.”
“I’ve lived on this Earth, all I’ve seen are boxes. People put things in boxes; it makes it easier to digest information. People say I’m the new Adele. Why is gender a talking point? I’m singing, I’m making music, I’m performing my music—that’s what should be the talking point.
“If I come on record and start speaking about it in an interview, then mark my words, that’s your time to chip in; I’ve given you the passcode to my business and to my personal life. But I am an artist, and in interviews, speaking like this, it’s not my idea of art; it’s just my idea of exchange, talking human to human.
“It shouldn’t be an issue, but it will be an issue. It’s always an issue.”
