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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 16:53:18 GMT -5
Memories! This was the Now96.3 Let It Snow concert in my town St. Louis in Dec. 17, 2015 when he talked about his fans in an interview.. It was a good show!
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 17:02:17 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 17:04:34 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Jul 10, 2018 17:06:44 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 17:08:41 GMT -5
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Post by lurleene on Jul 10, 2018 17:44:59 GMT -5
OT about Sam Smith . . . I ran across this article in the Huffington Post about Sam Smith dated Sept 18, 2017. Interesting take on Sam Smith's music and image, "the eternal sad gay boy." The male writer, a "radical queer feminist" is critical of this image. He states that SS is the most successful gay man on the charts since Elton 20 years ago. Worth reading the entire article in view of recent discussion of what makes people listen to and buy music, an artist finding his voice, etc. Below are a few lines. . . .
Sam Smith and the Sad Gay Boys It’s also worth noting that Smith is the most successful gay man on the charts since Elton John, who last cracked the top ten twenty years ago with his tribute single to Princess Diana, “Candle in the Wind 1997”. Without a doubt, Smith has a larger mainstream reach than his contemporaries - take Years & Years, who had success in the UK but never crossed over - and has “mainstreamed” the idea of an openly gay singer talking about his openly gay relationships on openly gay records. . .. . .
But what is hard to ignore in Smith’s music - and, indeed, what made it so ubiquitous - is its consistent, aching loneliness. Even Adele’s latest album, the multi-platinum 25, sounded more upbeat. Smith has built his musical brand on a down-trodden, lovelorn innocence packaged with a powerhouse of a voice that bends perfectly to bear the weight of every emotion his songs carry. His most well-known hit, “Stay With Me”, is so resonant largely in part to his vocal delivery: he sings every background vocal on the song, mixing them to sound like one big lonely church choir.
Perhaps all of this success has made Smith decide not to mess with the winning formula, because his next record is shaping up to be more of the same isolation and loneliness that we saw before.
. . . .. . . Moreover, he projects what appears to be a meticulously crafted image of perpetual isolation and loneliness: the eternal sad gay boy. Where Elton John and George Michael were gay men who knew how to have a good time, how to mix the social isolation and fierce vivacity many gay men are all too familiar with, Smith has parked his musical camper van firmly in the heartbreak territory. ....... In a cultural moment where the gains of the past few years seem on the cusp of evaporating, this kind of self-pitying - and, dare I say, self-centered - melancholy is the last thing we need.Thanks! Very interesting read. And it is not only a gay thing. I read an article from the UK some time ago and the writer was angry that after producing Queen, Rolling Stones, Bowie, Zep, the UK was now giving the world Sam and Ed. He considered them blander that bland and was horrified, lol. I am glad that Adam is going more alt-rock, rock(ish), real instruments and Queen inspired with his new work. I think there are now so many really young gay artists trying to get attention in pop (some in various stages of undress) that many will not make it. It is terrible to think but there will be only so much space that they will be allowed to occupy, at least in the US. Maybe Adam will stand out more in a space of his own before someone else tries to take it over. Harry Styles is sort of there but he is not gay so Adam could make a stand and carve out a great area for himself. No one can do it better than he, imo.
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 17:53:29 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 17:55:34 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 17:57:59 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 10, 2018 18:01:25 GMT -5
Look at the intensity in his eyes! And the cape movement!
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