“I found this amazing piece: a news anchor speaking at the first-ever Gay Pride in New York. We just picked away at it until it sounded perfect. The magic of this song came from the production: the live playing, the backing vocals. It’s about the ignoring of a human being and allowing someone’s drastic politics to get in the way of caring for someone else. But as me, Jimmy and Stargate were writing it, it became a rhetoric on a certain type of person with a god complex.
“This comes from a personal story about someone in my life who I’ve lost to drastic opinions. This is a song written for my fans, and every song after it is written for me.” ‘Love Me More’ is the last opportunity I was giving my older fans to come into this next stage with me. That's what I was trying to put across in this song. Self-love sometimes feels like a destination with self-acceptance, every day I have to try and accept myself and show myself love. I find the whole self-love thing quite cringey.
“I knew I wanted to write a song that said how I was feeling. I feel like my true artist self has arrived in a way.” Read on as Smith delves deep into every track on Gloria. I wanted there to be strength within every single song. “That’s what I wanted this record to feel like all the way through.
“I don’t want to sound cheesy, but Gloria for me is like when a butterfly leaves a cocoon,” says Smith. Made between Suffolk, LA, and Jamaica, Gloria is an album of rebellion, liberation, and letting go of the past, as one of modern pop’s biggest voices unveils their most assured music-and self-yet. There’s a confidence present that most artists reach a few albums deep, but it’s more than just the gains of experience you can hear here. “I've put so much into this record in terms of the production and the time. “My aim with this record was to make sure there is not one song on this album that I don't like,” adds Smith. “I want to be flipping from genre to genre to genre to genre.” Gloria, then, brings us sensual R&B, dazzling dance floor moments (“Lose You” is perhaps Smith’s best sad banger yet), twisting hyperpop, a dancehall-indebted earworm, and even choral music, with embraces of sex, the power of community, and queer joy and history along the way. “I wanted it to be a patchwork of pop, it’s something that I was really passionate about,” they tell Apple Music. Sam Smith’s fourth album, Gloria, opens with the kind of music we’ve come to expect from the British singer-songwriter: “Love Me More” is a gospel-inflected ballad celebrating the power of self-acceptance.
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