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

why has someone gone through the pretence of obscuring Bob Shennan's name in those emails

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.

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)

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

Clearly Elvin has told Bob to say it's a hoax.

Baffled this fooled anybody for even a second.

Basically, this sort of thing goes on, but nobody's dumb enough to put it onto emails.

There's no way the 6Music guy would have said "Radio 6" in an email. And that's just for starters.

The Independent story above has been deleted (suspiciously!), here's a similar article.

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?

I love music

— Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) November 6, 2017

lol

haha

New board description, 'As recommended by Sam Smith'.

well that's quite impressive after having to sing Too Good at Goodbyes 1000+ times

lol

just cringed through my initial responses to this thread. should have just called him a worthless hack and been done with it tbh

Less interesting than Adele/Emeli Sandé, amirite?

serious contender for most overrated debut of the decade

also nominating Hozier

did anyone actually rate his debut? or hozier's?

(i know they were both grammybait but that barely counts imo)

i'd like to belatedly apologize for starting this thread 3 years ago

hmm maybe just hype, Smith had an RS cover story and Hozier sold almost a million copies though

Every Sam Smith song sounds like a Kidz Bop cover of "Tears in Heaven."

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) November 7, 2017

All noise dude summertime fun board and pickle bar
— Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) November 6, 2017

ban lj
— Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) September 20, 2017

I hate this guy's voice. It's like a more boring Justin Vernon.

Hozier by some distance better than this polished nothing

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?

people are cunts

No, I believe it's called "The Thrill of It All"

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/sam-smith-backlash-r-kelly-t-shirt-snl-afterparty

he's a fucking cunt moron, what do you expect. an insipid parasite

If you had started the thread like that we could all just have gone home.

Was a good read, though.

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.

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.

No, the instrumental coda only.

the bits where he whispers that he doesn't have: and that he does it for the love ?

jfc

It was on my top 50 tracks from the year, no idea why now, faintly embarrassing.

Just saw that t-shirt thing. What you said. xpost.

"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