He is anxious about the upcoming ceremonies. The next morning, Smith and I sit with our feet dangling in the pool of the Ramada Plaza hotel, the sky above us unsure whether it wants to rain or shine, reflecting Smith’s ambivalent mood. He is all about the voice.Ĭoat, £1,495, Burberry London at. To really understand the effect of Smith, you need to see him - or rather, hear him - live.
His music is neither ground-breaking nor cool it cuts across age barriers with raw emotion. But his face is expressive and there is something in his almond-shaped eyes - intense, lachrymose, likely to brim at any moment - that draws you in. He is six foot two inches of slightly squidgy stockiness, a bulky package of congenial warmth.
When I bump into him backstage at the Forum, a neo-Greek amphitheatre in LA where he is playing tonight, I mistake him, in his white T-shirt and jeans, for a sound engineer. All this without the hype of The X Factor or a Brit School education. His debut single ‘Stay With Me’ sold more than 3.5 million copies and he currently has six Grammy (which took place on 8 February, after we went to press) and five Brit Awards nominations, for which he is the favourite to clean up on both sides of the Atlantic.
His album about unrequited love In the Lonely Hour entered the US Billboard chart at number two in November (the highest ever entry for a debut from a British singer), was at number one in both the UK and US album charts and sold more than a million last year. In just two years, this 22-year-old from Cambridgeshire has gone from being a bathroom attendant in a bar in the City, to that lofty superlative ‘the biggest male artist in the world’. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.They eventually escape their solitary existence, but probably not in the way that they had hoped or intended. In the music video, Smith is a lonely, disembodied mannequin head in a store window display, watching solemnly as happy couples walk past them day to day. Darko responds, “I don’t want to be alone.” “It is if everyone dies alone,” he replies. Darko (portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal) is discussing his loneliness, and how he’s never seen proof that he’s not alone in the world he calls the quest of searching for proof “absurd.” “The search for God is absurd?” his therapist asks him. The scene Smith samples is from one of Donnie Darko’s therapy sessions in the film. This is for all the lonely hearts out there on another Valentine’s Day xx.” during a time of self-discovery and heartbreak. “I wrote this with Jimmy Napes and Stargate in L.A. “Releasing this song is going to be a wild one - I feel like it’s from one of the deepest parts of me,” Smith told Rolling Stone ahead of the single’s release. Sam Smith samples audio from the 2001 cult classic film Donnie Darko in their latest single, “To Die For,” released on Valentine’s Day.
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