On October 8th, pop star Sam Smith made an appearance on a podcast, called the Zach Sang Show. Throughout the conversation, Smith got excited about how the embrace of the upbeat “How Do You Sleep?” and their smash collab with Normani, “Dancing With a Stranger,” has opened the door to pursuing a long-held dream.
“I feel like I have recently shown people a side of me which I normally keep to myself or for my family and friends,” Smith told Sang of exploring their pop side. “I showed everyone it and everyone loved it. I feel like it’s almost given me permission to kinda do what I’ve always dreamed of doing but I was always scared to do, which is pop music. I love pop music so much.”
Smith also revealed that “Dancing With a Stranger” was written as “pure therapy” just three weeks after the breakup as something they could dance to, but also cry to. “I can’t write about something in the moment it has to be afterwards. It has be looking back on something for me,” Smith said about their writing process. The good news for fans is that Smith said they’ve caught the strongest, “best writing flow” of their lives over the past year in the ramp up to the as-yet-untitled album.
And while they love the “acoustic-y,” soulful pop they’ve made in the past, Smith said the new direction has “made me feel really good and happy” after what they described as a “very tough year” that included a hard breakup. “I think my music will always be honest in that way, but being able to dance and stuff is amazing.”
We’ll keep our fingers crossed that the project drops sooner, rather than later in 2020.
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