sam smith: another adele/emeli sandé or something more interesting?

it's been getting radio play across the country.

Update: Just heard "Latch" on the radio yesterday afternoon.

― jaymc, Monday, June 23, 2014 5:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fascinating and important update in the career of a major label artist

lol

I heard Ed Sheeran yesterday and it wasn't a pleasant experience.

there's some Ed Sheeran song getting play on VH-1 that is an uncanny Timberlake impersonation, it's kind of incredible

fascinating and important update in the career of a major label artist

No, it was an update on my post from Saturday in which I said I hadn't heard it on the radio yet.

good, i was dying for an update on that post

lexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

they def play "latch" on z100 all the time

where would ilm be without americans saying "I heard a thing on the radio"

very true, it's in the board's dna

ya interrupting the other vital work that goes on like

American radio only plays like 5 songs at any one time so it is a big deal when a new one is given the nod -- and noteworthy when one is inducted into the mainstream pop landscape months after its release. Also major label or not, non-Calvin Harris UK dance on the US charts is a new, interesting development, imo. Like what's next, Rudimental?

Anyway thank you for giving me a chance to explain myself on the I Love Music board's Sam Smith thread. Best wishes.

"restart" is incredible, i'm really mad that sam smith isn't trying to be millennial darryl hall or something

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where would ilm be without americans saying "I heard a thing on the radio"

I'm more a fan of "I heard this blasting from cars that drive past my place really slowly at night".

just swinging by right quick to say that id like to thank you all for reminding me of the name of the dude from saturday night live that bored the living shit out of me.

vocally he reminds me of antony without the high notes or range

music made by running a regression model on what would sell

I'm more a fan of "I heard this blasting from cars that drive past my place really slowly at night".

― MarkoP, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"heard 'axel f' from a passing lorry whilst in the loo at halftime of the footy match"

sorry ill get me coat *goes to the back of the queue*

can I join you for a fag?

Tried to give more of this album a proper listen and I had to give up. I think I'm actively repulsed by something in his voice, but that causes more of a reaction in me than whatever else is going on in this mostly boilerplate collection of stately, predictable ballads.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM AND FUIUD

I think his voice only really works on "Latch" and "Stay With Me". The other songs I've heard him sing have been super boring.

"Restart" is so sweet

i do like "restart" a lot but zzzzz for most of the rest

undeniably he works a narrow range of moods on this but that seems quite deliberate and he works them beautifully imo

lol I was talking to my coworker and he called Sam Smith "the male Adele" and I was like "...yes", except he meant it as a compliment

he's Bobby Darin.

He's the male Bobby Darin.

bobby darin never resembled a Goth frog so hurdle #1 says no

Kevin Spacey....as Sam Smith

Adele is not all that great but she's still so so so much better than Sam Smith

look, i said FUIUD

Wrote a big check to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/01/26/tom-petty-now-gets-songwriting-royalties-for-sam-smith-stay-with-me/

For all the zillion times I've heard "Stay," that never leapt out at me. But totally obvious now that they mention it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiWYmjBzx7s

as the people's wizard i will now let you kids in on the smart play

"latch" is a great song but fuck his solo stuff

restart is the jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGzHgo7n4jM

It's not like "Stay" is such a remarkably original melody, I'll bet the similarity was completely accidental. Still, serves you right for coming up with such a lazy tune.

Yeah, so many songs sound like bits of other songs that it's kind of mysterious to me which ones get singled out as violators.

the ones that make a shitload of money

yeah I was gonna say

There is that. I have a lawyer friend who does copyright work, a certain amount of her time is taken up with aggrieved lawsuits from people who are positive that somebody heard their song on Soundcloud and ripped off their I-IV-V progression. (Think she defended Marilyn Manson at one point.)

haha

get this little shit out of here. career needs to be ended right now

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201502/sam-smith-new-rat-pack

But I feel like class and romance have gotten lost. We've become a bit lazy, not just in terms of music. I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?

lol what a creepy fuck

"I long for the days when gays didn't have to have sex with men."

lol at the first line of that article making it sound like he's some impoverished piaf story when his privilege is well-documented

samsmith, a humble working-class maker of sams

Even if you overlook the basic misogyny there it's a particularly galling example of unjustified rockism.