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Sam Smith – Like I Can
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“Like I Can” was released as a digital download on 5 December 2014 as the fifth single from Sam Smith’s debut studio album, In the Lonely Hour (2014).
Its lively, hypnotic beat
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Sam Smith – Like I Can (Artful Remix)
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He could be a sinner, or a gentleman / He could be your preacher, when your soul is down / He could be your lawyer on a witness stand but / He'll never love you like I can, can
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The Gardiner Sisters – Like I Can
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She could be a sinner / Or the sweetest sound / She could be a preacher / When your soul is down / She could be a lawyer / On a witness stand but / She'll never love you / Like i
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Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep?
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After weeks of teasing on Sam’s social media sites, this song was released on July 19th 2019. Sam said that they wanted to move on from heartbreak ballads, commenting in a press
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Sam Smith – How To Cry
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This song reverts in style to the “old Sam” — their soaring voice couldn’t be more emotional and heart-rending. Yet another relationship gone wrong.
The lyric is interesting in
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Naughty Boy (Ft. Sam Smith) – La La La
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Topping the UK charts in June 2013, this song by Naughty Boy is about running away from one’s problems. It features then up-and-coming artist Sam Smith, and was produced by Naughty
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Sam Smith – Love Me More
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“Love Me More” is the first track on Sam Smith’s fourth album Gloria, released on 27th January 2023. It was also Sam’s first release of 2022 following their third studio album
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Sam Smith & Kim Petras – Unholy
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“Unholy” is the second single from Sam Smith’s fourth studio album, Gloria, released on 27th January 2023. The song is a collaboration with German-born singer and songwriter, Kim
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Sam Smith – Writing's on the Wall
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Sam Smith confirmed on 8 September 2015 that he recorded the James Bond theme song. He said on his social media:
This is one of the highlights of my career. I am honoured to
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Sam Smith – Forgive Myself
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The spare simplicity of this ballad, reminiscent of Sam Smith’s early style, is what gives it its impact. The piano and solo cello backing is all that is needed, and the slow
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Sam Smith – Lose You
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This song from Sam Smith’s Gloria album has a fast, regular and compulsive beat. Although the lyric is sad — the longing to cling to a failing relationship — this track is clearly
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Sam Smith – So Serious
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In an interview with Clara Amfo for BBC Sounds Sam said they wanted “So Serious” to be “like a cute pop song” but “deep lyrically”. The story of Sam’s relationship break-up is
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Sam Smith – I'm Not Here To Make Friends
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“I’m Not Here To Make Friends”, together with “Unholy”, is perhaps a stand-out track on Sam Smith’s Gloria album. Sam performed it flawlessly on the BBC 1 Graham Norton Show on
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Sam Smith & Labrinth – Love Goes
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This is the title track, described by Clara Amfo when she interviewed Sam Smith for BBC Sounds, as “… so good, I love the ambition of this tune”.
The arrangement is markedly
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Sam Smith – I'm Not the Only One
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“I’m Not the Only One” was written by Sam Smith about a friend and their slow realisation that their lover has been cheating on them and lying about it. It’s one of several songs
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Disclosure (Ft. Sam Smith) – Latch
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With its full-bodied vocals, “Latch” sums up the delirious feeling of falling head over heels in love with someone.
Showstopping, indelible and effusive—not to mention successful
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Sam Smith – Diamonds
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“Diamonds” is the second official single by English singer Sam Smith, taken from their third studio album, Love Goes. The upbeat song, follows July 2020’s first single “My Oasis
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Sam Smith – Leave Your Lover
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In the fourth track on Sam Smith’s debut album In The Lonely Hour, Sam sings of their pain in regards to a forbidden love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182TRJq9Zt8
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Sam Smith – Stay With Me
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“Stay with Me” sees Smith yearning for a lasting relationship after a one-night stand leaves them craving more. One of their biggest hits, it’s gone #1 in countries like the United
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Sam Smith – Lay Me Down
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“Lay Me Down” was released on Sam’s debut album, In The Lonely Hour, as the lead single from the album. Much of In the Lonely Hour deals with a case of unrequited love Smith
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Sam Smith – I've Told You Now
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Sam Smith’s songs are always different; always tell an interesting and usually sad story. Here they launch straight in, as if in the middle of a conversation, a technique that
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Sam Smith – To Die For
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“To Die For” is a mid-tempo, pop-soul ballad. The song comes after releasing several dance numbers in the previous eighteen months, such as “How Do You Sleep?,” “Dancing With a
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Sam Smith – Kids Again
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In terms of the concept of the album, this song is well placed, effectively the last new track before the previously-released bonus tracks. After the opening song, “Young”, which
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Sam Smith – Fire on Fire
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Sam Smith’s emotional vocals in “Fire on Fire” feature on the BBC and Netflix mini-series Watership Down, an adaptation of the eponymous 1972 Richard Adams novel, which debuted 23
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Sam Smith & Normani – Dancing with a Stranger
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“Dancing with a Stranger” is a collaboration between singer-songwriters Sam Smith and Normani. It’s about finding someone new, expressed in the metaphor ‘dancing with a stranger
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Sam Smith – Six Shots
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Sam Smith’s training as a jazz singer during their teens is evident here. The flexibility of Sam’s voice is absolutely suited to the song, as with the earlier song Perfect. Several
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Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep? (Acoustic)
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[Intro] / Yeah, mmm / [Verse 1] / I'm done hatin' myself for feelin' / I'm done cryin' myself awake / I gotta leave and start the healin' / But when you move like that, I just
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Sam Smith (Ft. Burna Boy) – My Oasis
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Since Sam Smith’s last album in 2017, there has been a steady stream of new singles. The third Sam Smith album, originally entitled To Die For was planned for Spring 2020, but the
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Sam Smith – Lay Me Down (Todd Edwards Dub)
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Yes I do, I believe / That one day I will be, where I was / Right there, right next to you / And it's hard, the days just seem so dark / The moon, the stars, are nothing without
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Sam Smith – No God
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This is the second song on Sam Smith’s Gloria album released 27th January 2023. It has a rhymic, mid-tempo beat and jazz influences.
The lyric is sad, but far from the passive
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Sam Smith (Ft. Yebba) – No Peace
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When a friend sent a Youtube clip of Yebba Smith singing Sam Smith was captivated by her voice. In an Apple Music interview entitled ‘On the Record; The Thrill of it All’, they
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Sam Smith – Burning
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“Burning” sees Sam Smith reconcile themself to the break up of an important relationship, and the pain and unhappiness that it caused them. They have also said that the song is
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Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep? (Live at Abbey Road Studios)
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[Verse 1] / I'm done hatin' myself for feelin' / I'm done cryin' myself awake / I gotta leave and start the healin' / But when you move like that, I just wanna stay / [Pre-Chorus
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Sam Smith – Not In That Way
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‘Not In That Way’ is a song about unrequited love, and the emotional stages of telling someone you love them, but they don’t love you in the same way. It can have meaning for
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Sam Smith & John Legend – Lay Me Down
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[Verse 1: Sam Smith] / Yes I do, I believe / That one day I will be where I was / Right there, right next to you / And it's hard, the days just seem so dark / The moon, the stars
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Sam Smith – Too Good at Goodbyes
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“Too Good at Goodbyes” tells of a turbulent personal relationship, and is Sam Smith’s first solo release since their 2015 James Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall.” The song is the
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Sam Smith – Young
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“Young,” the first track from Sam Smith’s third studio album Love Goes, tackles the immense pressure Smith felt during the beginning of their career.
Following the track’s release
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Sam Smith & Jessie Reyez – Perfect
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This is a song about growing maturity, a yearning for a meaningful relationship and weariness with night life. A constant theme in Sam Smith’s music is loneliness, and this is
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Calvin Harris & Sam Smith (Ft. Jessie Reyez) – Promises
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The production of “Promises” was something of a surprise, having been publicized with only five days notice on Calvin’s and Sam’s social media accounts:
“Promises” is the third
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Sam Smith (Ft. The Dap-Kings Horns) – One Last Song
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In their interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1 Radio, Sam Smith said that, after their broken relationship,
… the guy I wrote the first record about started to leak back into my
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Sam Smith & Ed Sheeran – Who We Love
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This collaboration between Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran has resulted in a gentle, well-crafted song and an effective duet in which the two voices complement each other and blend
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Sam Smith – Make It To Me
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[Verse 1] / My mind runs away to you / With a thought I hope you'll see / Can't see where it's wandered to / But I know where it wants to be / [Pre-Chorus] / I'm waiting patiently
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Sam Smith & Madonna – Vulgar
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”Vulgar” marks the first collaboration between the singers Sam Smith and Madonna.
A rap-esque song which includes Arabic chords that characterised “Unholy”. It links the two songs
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Sam Smith (Ft. A$AP Rocky) – I’m Not the Only One (feat. A$AP Rocky)
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Shortly after his feature on Tinashe’s “Pretend”, Flacko brings two new verses to the table, this time over UK sensation Sam Smith’s new single “I’m Not the Only One”.
The two men
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