I've made so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it’s a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.'Īfter singing on hit songs with Naughty Boy and Disclosure, Smith's first two solo singles have both reached No 1. ' important to me that my music reaches everybody.

'I'm not in this industry to talk about my personal life unless it’s in a musical form,' he said. When it came time to write the songs that formed In the Lonely Hour, he 'tried to be clever' about it, using pronouns that left his lover's gender ambiguous. Hopefully.'ĭespite his young age, Smith has been in the business for a long time: he got his first manager when he was 12 years old and was 'promised stardom. It’s all there now, and I can move on and hopefully find a guy who can love me the way I love him.' In a Twitter Q&A yesterday, Smith tweeted, 'I will not be making another lonely album. ' it feels good to have interviews like this, to chat about it and put stuff to bed. 'It was good as a form of closure, to get it off my chest and tell him,' Smith said. Though Smith says he is 'happy with everything' now - that he is 'comfortable with' himself and 'life is amazing' - he arrived at this point only after talking to his crush about this album. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn’t felt love before.' I think I’m over it now, but I was in a very dark place. In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn’t love me back. 'I guess I’m a little bit attracted to that in a bad way. 'I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven’t loved me back,' he told Fader. Smith, however, says he has never been in a relationship.

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