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― groovypanda, Monday, 26 October 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
booooo.
― Mark G, Monday, 26 October 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
(booing "We will no longer play the Spectres song", for clarity yeah?)
― Mark G, Monday, 26 October 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
IDGI. What is it about the other song that gives Smith's label/management team/whoever a legal claim against the station (however tenuous)?
― Tim F, Monday, 26 October 2015 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Elvin Smith is Sam Smith's manager (one of three, anyway). I am faintly baffled that they'd be able to make 6 Music stop playing something that seems to fall within the demographic interests of the station. But if these emails are true, it's kind of a fascinating (and scary) look into how massive franchise tie-in bullshit marketing career-engineering works.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 26 October 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
why has someone gone through the pretence of obscuring Bob Shennan's name in those emails
― these are my pincers and if you don't like them I have udders (DJ Mencap), Monday, 26 October 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm with Tim F. Bob should let Elvin's lawyer come at him with all they've got, as I can't see that it'd'be much.
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Monday, 26 October 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
I privately brainstormed and the only thing I could come up with is if Radio 6 had been (jokingly) presenting the Spectres song as the "official new James Bond song" and - assuming consumer protection laws are roughly the same in the UK as in Australia - Sam Smith's management are saying that's misleading conduct. But it would be the presentation of the song rather than playing it that would potentially be actionable.
And if that was the case and it's not even properly identified in Smith's emails then IDK give up now dude.
(soz for being boring)
― Tim F, Monday, 26 October 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
STAND DOWN!
UPDATE: The BBC has claimed that the emails are a hoax and the band has removed the FB post.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sam-smiths-manager-allegedly-bullies-bbc-into-stopping-playing-unofficial-spectre-theme-in-sickening-a6709091.html
― Mark G, Monday, 26 October 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Clearly Elvin has told Bob to say it's a hoax.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 26 October 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Baffled this fooled anybody for even a second.
― nashwan, Monday, 26 October 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
Basically, this sort of thing goes on, but nobody's dumb enough to put it onto emails.
― Mark G, Monday, 26 October 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
There's no way the 6Music guy would have said "Radio 6" in an email. And that's just for starters.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 26 October 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
The Independent story above has been deleted (suspiciously!), here's a similar article.
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Monday, 26 October 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Not suspiciously, apart from the UPDATE I posted above it all proved to be wrong.
Anyway, the mirror has it the band did a cover version. Which it wasn't, right?
― Mark G, Monday, 26 October 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
I love music— Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) November 6, 2017
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 08:44 (six years ago) link
lol
― imago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
haha
― niels, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
New board description, 'As recommended by Sam Smith'.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
well that's quite impressive after having to sing Too Good at Goodbyes 1000+ times
― Ludo, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:57 (six years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
just cringed through my initial responses to this thread. should have just called him a worthless hack and been done with it tbh
― imago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
Less interesting than Adele/Emeli Sandé, amirite?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
serious contender for most overrated debut of the decade
also nominating Hozier
― niels, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
did anyone actually rate his debut? or hozier's?
― dyl, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
(i know they were both grammybait but that barely counts imo)
i'd like to belatedly apologize for starting this thread 3 years ago
― dyl, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
hmm maybe just hype, Smith had an RS cover story and Hozier sold almost a million copies though
― niels, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link
Every Sam Smith song sounds like a Kidz Bop cover of "Tears in Heaven."— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) November 7, 2017
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
All noise dude summertime fun board and pickle bar— Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) November 6, 2017
― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
ban lj— Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) September 20, 2017
― with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
I hate this guy's voice. It's like a more boring Justin Vernon.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
Hozier by some distance better than this polished nothing
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
Is there a good reason this guy is being given one hours worth of primetime on BBC1 to plug his latest album? Licence Fee anyone?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
people are cunts
― imago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
No, I believe it's called "The Thrill of It All"
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sam-smith-backlash-r-kelly-t-shirt-snl-afterparty
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
he's a fucking cunt moron, what do you expect. an insipid parasite
― imago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
If you had started the thread like that we could all just have gone home.
Was a good read, though.
― the article don, Friday, 10 November 2017 08:42 (six years ago) link
I thought I liked "Money On My Mind" but have checked it out again and the only good bits are when he isn't singing.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
the bits where he whispers that he doesn't have: and that he does it for the love ?
Still, he's appealing to the people that like to sing loud songs about loving Money.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 November 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
No, the instrumental coda only.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
jfc
― imago, Friday, 10 November 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
It was on my top 50 tracks from the year, no idea why now, faintly embarrassing.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
Just saw that t-shirt thing. What you said. xpost.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 November 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
"how do you sleep?" is i think the second single of theirs in a row to have ended up growing on me despite initially leaving me cold
― dyl, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link