In the case of "Stay With Me," that behavior is a one night stand and the quick emotional attachment the speaker develops immediately thereafter.
“Stay With Me.” Much of Smith’s debut LP, In the Lonely Hour, centers on unrequited love and destructive behavior. Aside from his incredible voice, one of the reasons his music is so appealing is that his stories and his heartache are relatable to anyone who isn’t a soulless robot.īut what are Sam Smith’s most Sad Bastard songs? And considering that he trades in different flavors of sadness, when is it appropriate to listen to each song? Read on for seven different answers to those questions - one for each day, so you can stay in your feelings all week long.ġ. Smith, a rare vocal talent and genuinely delightful celebrity, seems to bathe nightly in the gloom and melancholy of this sub-genre. Pop is brimming with what we will call Sad Bastard Music. In fact, based solely upon his music, his epitaph might read, “Everything was beautiful, and everything hurt.” There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire, Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It's an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone.įor both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one knows that better than English singer/songwriter Sam Smith.
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