I understand the compulsion to have a cohesive theme on an album. Adele did it with 21 and its theme of scorned love and Arcade Fire had The Suburbs’ theme of regret and wasted youth, but Sam Smith decides to go with the hopeless yearning and complaints of unrequited love. However, the rest of the album doesn’t hold up to its fantastic opening. I think it’s Smith’s defining song on the album and of him as an artist. The neat production by Two Inch Punch and Smith’s punchy vocals make for a compelling song about denouncing the entire music industry structure from writing for taste or being a puppet to the industry. It’s reminiscent of a song off of Disclosure’s Settle. It treads along the line of a new string of artists condemning the luxurious lifestyle that has swept the industry. “Money on My Mind” is such a strong start to the album and probably one of the best of the album. However, my biggest issues with the album are rooted in the music itself. His contributions to “Latch ” and Naughty Boy’s “La La La” are invaluable, but I think that they are put to best use in this album.
He has been on my radar since I discovered him through Disclosure’s single “Latch.” There’s no denying that he has a phenomenal and unique voice that should be capitalized on. Thank you so much for breaking my heart, because you got me four Grammys!”.Īs of April 2015, In the Lonely Hour has sold over 5 million copies worldwide.There was one thing on my mind when I first listened through Sam Smith’s debut album “In the Lonely Hour” and that was Adele. They said: “I would like to thank the man that I fell in love with last year – the man who this album is about. So, it’s my way of defining what is love, and how unrequited love is just as painful, just as powerful, as what we call ‘normal’ love.Īt the 57th Annual Grammy Awards held on 8 February 2015 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Smith performed Stay With Me, and received four Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Stay With Me for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, and In the Lonely Hour for Best Pop Vocal Album. I don’t have that many sad things going on in my life and it was the only thing that was really affecting me last year: I fell in love with someone who didn’t love me back, and it made me get into this head space of, ‘Will I find a man to love? When will I find love?’ This album is my ‘fuck off’ to everyone and basically say, ‘No, I have been in love with a man and, if anything, it was much more painful than your version’, because I’m not getting what I want with a man and it’s so close I can almost taste him. It was my way of talking about the only real issue in my life.
My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. Hopefully I’ll be happier soon and I’ll write about that.” In another interview with Digital Spy, when asked to describe the album, they said: I was sad, heartbroken, and I wrote about being sad. Talking about the name of the album he said: “People are saying, ‘Oh but it’s too sad’, but that’s what it’s about. In an interview with Digital Spy, Smith described the overarching theme of his album as “sad”. It was the second best-selling album of 2014 in the UK, and the third best-selling in the United States that year. The album was a commercial success worldwide, becoming a number-one chart hit in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The album’s third hit single, I’m Not the Only One, reached number three in the UK and number five in the US. The album includes the hit singles Money On My Mind and Stay with Me, both of which were number one in the UK the latter becoming a hit worldwide, peaking in the top ten in over 20 countries, including reaching number two in the US. In the Lonely Hour is the debut studio album by English recording artist Sam Smith.
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