Sam Smith - Gloria

Dan!

Dan!

he/him
“Lose You” really follows the vibe of the 2019 songs. What a bop. If you scrape together tracks from the last two albums plus the stray singles, you can get a pretty great album with a cohesive sound and theme

  1. Lose You
  2. Diamonds
  3. How Do You Sleep?
  4. Another One
  5. My Oasis
  6. Dancing With a Stranger
  7. So Serious
  8. Promises
  9. Dance (‘Til You Love Someone Else)
  10. For the Lover That I Lost
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blaze_dave

blaze_dave

If anything, Love Goes proves to be a superior album to Gloria.

Love Goes
1 Young
2 Diamonds
3 Another One
4 My Oasis (feat. Burna Boy)
5 So Serious
6 Dance ('Til You Love Someone Else)
7 For The Lover That I Lost
8 Breaking Hearts
9 Forgive Myself
10 Love Goes (feat. Labrinth)
11 Kids Again
12 Dancing With A Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani) [Bonus track]
13 How Do You Sleep? [Bonus track]
14 To Die For [Bonus track]
15 I'm Ready (Sam Smith & Demi Lovato) [Bonus track]
16 Fire On Fire [Bonus track]
17 Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) [Bonus track]
18. I Feel Love (wasn't on the album but should have been)

Gloria
1 Love Me More
2 No God
3 Hurting Interlude
4 Lose You
5 Perfect Sam Smith & Jessie Reyez
6 Unholy Sam Smith & Kim Petras
7 How To Cry
8 Six Shots
9 Gimme Sam Smith, Koffee & Jessie Reyez
10 Dorothy's Interlude
11 I'm Not Here To Make Friends
12 Gloria
13 Who We Love Sam Smith & Ed Sheeran
14. Unholy (Disclosure Remix - This makes this song bearable)
 
MisterNovem

MisterNovem

I enjoy Sam on occasion. I think they look happy and engaging in the new video. I just wish they'd wear a little more make-up and really COMMIT to the looks.
 
michaelhird

michaelhird

Chris Lala said:
There is honestly a lot to be said about the fact that a lot of the hate (that I can say is coming from cis white gay men) is directly stemming from the fact they are not sexually attracted to Sam and had ANY cisgender white twunk been in the same video with the same settings, styling and storyboards, they would be lapping it up as a serve.

It has nothing to even do with the song and the video is so sexually tame, it’s laughable that is the rhetoric the press and twitter is spewing. It’s about the trans joy and body positivity emanating from this video.
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Exactly this. It was only a couple of months ago everyone seemed to be fawning over this model's reveal when he took off his blazer.

I hope Sam is surrounded by people because the comments I've seen are disgusting.

 
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linum

linum

Will be interesting to see where Gloria debuts on the UK and American charts.

The charts aren't everything, but after the TikTok assisted runaway success of Unholy - let's see if it translates into album sales?
 
blaze_dave

blaze_dave

Oddly enough Young from Love Goes pretty much addresses a lot of the hatred they get.
I wanna be wild and young
And not be afraid to lose
Cry on my own
Me and my bottle
These are the things I choose
But they're watching me, judging me
Making me feel so used
Can't you see
That all I wanna do is
Get a little wild
Get a little high
Kiss a hundred boys and
Not feel like I'm tied to them
If you wanna judge me, then
Go and load the gun
I've done nothing wrong
I'm young
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
I wanna fight
And fall off the tables
Then wait to regret last night
My heavy heart pounds deep like a dagger
'Cause I'm not afraid
To bite
But they're watching me, judging me
Making me feel so used
Can't you see
That all I wanna do is
Get a little wild
Get a little high
Kiss a hundred boys and
Not feel like I'm tied to them
If you wanna judge me, then
Go and load the gun
I've done nothing wrong
I'm young
Get a little wild
Get a little high
Kiss a hundred boys and
Not feel like I'm tied to them
If you wanna judge me, then
Go and load the gun
I've done nothing wrong
I'm young
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M3G4N

M3G4N

She/Her/Queen
Island said:
I actually don't mind Love Me More...
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The lyrics really got to me. Gloria (the interlude) is really good too.

Other than their straining voice I have to admit I've liked all of Sam's alberms. But I cannot for the life of me stand Unholy (especially Kim's verse).
 
Up Down Suite

Up Down Suite

It's great that there's conversations around this now and calling the double standards. I've been and continue to be guilty of being shady towards Sam but I've really tried to asses what's rooted in internalised phobia and what's actually valid criticism / stylistic preference.

I wish the music and styling weren't so hodgepodge. Imagine if a brilliant album and actually disruptive, clever fashion was attached to this.

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These things always make me boil. It's always the muscle / masculine-presenting males who literally put on a pearl necklace and are deemed as culturally-shifting, boundary-breaking, kind-of-sexy-if-you-really-think-about-it.
 
elusive_chartreuse

elusive_chartreuse

smellycat said:
Fact. You know if Harry Styles did this the general public would be pissing themselves with enjoyment.
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I keep thinking about this, because after the onslaught of harry styles press and the straights fawning over him and buying up stadiums for the past 18months because he put some pearls on... and we all had to be quiet and eat our food because we don't want to criticise someone's gender expression (even if its crafted by PR and fashion designers/stylists- but thats another conversation).

But when a non-binary queer person puts on some pearls, wow bets are off and fury is unleashed in a completely hateful way.

So over the double standard, especially in this terf era of politics. Which also makes what Sam is doing really brave and admirable because they actually have skin in the game.

This may be incoherent but I'm just sick of queer people having to clear some mysterious higher hurdles
 
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