"I was singing songs about a married man I’d fallen in love with, and we did not kiss, nothing happened between us, but I was so in love with him, and I was tortured. I look back on those videos of me when I was 20, and I see a feminine energy," they said. I’m in a suit and in that suit, I was channeling Judy Garland. "I had that with my first album, In the Lonely Hour. For Sam, their music has always been queer the public has simply failed to recognize it as such. Interestingly, when ALOK notes that Sam's comment hints at a very non-binary way of approaching their music, Sam reveals they've been trying to erase any kind of binary or cishet thinking around their music since their first album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in 2014. I’m trying to fly the flag a little bit and say that simple music isn’t simple." This album is me basically telling everyone to fuck off. Pop music is fine art…I love the muse side of each of those genres as much as I do the commercial, but I’ve been made to feel ashamed throughout my career for loving pop so much. Britney, Christina, Madonna, and Beyoncé - I believe their art is fine art. When I say that Britney Spears basically saved me as a kid, I’m not saying that lightly. To this, Sam replied, "It’s something that’s been a fight within me for so long because I love all types of music. We’ve spoken a lot about how you don’t feel like you have to compromise artistic integrity while existing in a pop space." Early on, ALOK remarked, "I feel like you’re playing with binaries more generally - like the one between fine art and pop. In the process, Sam's fans have watched as they've begun speaking fearlessly about their identity with the world.Īs part of the Out 100 issue, the magazine crowned Sam with the superlative "Evolution of the Year." In the interview, Sam chatted with their close friend ALOK about their big milestones from the past year and how Sam is not only erasing binary lines in their daily life, but in their music and creative work as well. Earlier in 2019, Sam came out as non-binary and, a short while later, revealed their pronouns as they/them. It's been an incredibly formative year for singer-songwriter Sam Smith.
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