Im Not The Only One and Latch are the only decent things Sam Smith has done as of yet tbh.

I still don't get how 'I'm Not The Only One' is so much more highly regarded than 'Stay With Me' as well, they are literally the same song to my ears.

 

Looks like 'I'm Not The Only One' is set to overtake the top 10 longevity of 'Stay With Me' this week (unless 'Stay With Me' re-enters the top 10 itself which I honestly wouldn't be surprised at). Very impressive for a post-album single.

Sam Smith's upbeat stuff is much better than the ballads. Latch and La La La will go down as classics, Money on My Mind is good, but Stay with Me was dire :o

 

Like I Can reminds me of Emeli Sande's 'Next to Me' but it does sound very good! Do feel he is this decade's Daniel Beddingfield in a way though :lol:

For me I find I'm Not The Only One has a more interesting melody and the fact it uses a similar chord structure to She's Electric in the chorus. Stay With Me is literally just downright dull and just plods along without any variation, and the use of a tacky choir in the chorus doesn't help things (it's less noticeable in INTOO)

 

La La La is the best he's ever done and most likely will do. MOMM is his best solo song. I don't rate Latch.

I still don't get how 'I'm Not The Only One' is so much more highly regarded than 'Stay With Me' as well, they are literally the same song to my ears.

 

Melody, production and subject matter, in that order, for me. Also I find 'Stay With Me' repetitious.

 

EDIT: Dobbo said it better!

Edited November 9, 201410 yr by Noahspike

I've really warmed to 'Stay With Me', it's wonderful. Same goes for INTOO. It's taken them so long to grow on me though that I can't be bothered to listen to the album :lol:

 

I do still wish he'd gone down the 'La La La'/'Latch ' route though.

Edited November 9, 201410 yr by Rabbit Froot

Equally annoying.

 

Though "Latch" remains a tune, and so does the other Disclosure collar. "Together".

this is what happens when you become a young singer-songwriter from a privledged/middle class background, it leaves you very little to draw on for inspiration.

 

maybe that will come with time

Melody, production and subject matter, in that order, for me. Also I find 'Stay With Me' repetitious.

 

EDIT: Dobbo said it better!

 

The melodies are fairly similar ('staaaaaay' vs. 'saaaaaay' etc.) and the production is more or less identical (when the songs were played back to back on the chart show it sounded like one was just a continuation of the other with exactly the same backing track). Maybe the differences would reveal themself more if I paid more attention but failing that I can barely tell the difference, aside from the lyrics.

 

Clearly this is just me though as nearly everyone else seems to be of the opinion that one is much better than the other :lol:

 

Have just listened to 'Like I Can' anyway and it is a massive improvement from the last two singles, though still not a patch on 'Money On My Mind' and still sounds like something that will get very boring after a few weeks of inevitable omnipresence.

'money on my mind' really is rather contradictory. if you're doing it for the love then why sign a mega bucks major label deal and allow yourself to be sandéd?

Well he has to pay the rent somehow. :P

 

In the song he is talking more about the label wanting him to write songs for other artists which he hasn't done, yet. I am sure if they want to fob one of his old demos off on to someone for a large cash sum I doubt he would actually say no.

 

Loved his performance of Like I Can. :wub:

I think INTOO has a much more retro feel than the simple ballad that SWM is.

 

Anyway Nirvana slays those too easily!!

I still think that I'm Not The Only One sounds like a Randy Newman song/as if it would fit into a Toy Story movie.

 

I don't love anything Sam has released but he doesn't offend me. Latch and La La La are still better to me than his whole solo career and everything on the album though.

One Direction were dire,they look really like hippies from the sixties,and moved around like an uncle dancing at a Wedding..I don't see what appeal young girls have for them now?,and the song seems really half-arsed and boring. The definitely could pass off as men in their 40's now.

Edited November 9, 201410 yr by Zeebre12

It all started off so well with Sam Smith with Latch, La La La and Nirvana, but Money On My Mind was only OK and then he just morphed into a male Emeli Sande with Stay With The Only One (agreeing with Bré on that one). Hoping this new one is a bit better, though lowering my expectations a bit. He was so popular at V Festival too with people going mad for him, I just...didn't get it.

Indeed RE One Direction there cycle is nearing its end unless a good pop song can be released!

Edited November 9, 201410 yr by steve201

I still don't get how 'I'm Not The Only One' is so much more highly regarded than 'Stay With Me' as well, they are literally the same song to my ears.

 

Looks like 'I'm Not The Only One' is set to overtake the top 10 longevity of 'Stay With Me' this week (unless 'Stay With Me' re-enters the top 10 itself which I honestly wouldn't be surprised at). Very impressive for a post-album single.

 

They are similar, but to me I'm Not the Only One is little bit more up-beat and groovy.

Will this get a worldwide release tomorrow? http://instagram.com/p/uyMw0Du8xH/ new Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars song

Becky Hill's 'Losing' is at #43 combined (not combining all the other songs), so that's a pretty good effort I think!

I'm really hoping she at least gets a play in the chart update but even that might be a bit of a stretch.

Michael Jackson 'Will You Be There' at #39 :o 6 places higher than Fleur's version. Also much higher than 'Man In The Mirror' (#78) and 'You Are Not Alone' (#144) despite those XF performances being higher (#25 and #34 respectively). Strange.

 

Paloma Faith at #49, not *too* bad after it barely went top 1,500 on pre-orders but really odd to see the song not catching on after 'Only Love Can Hurt Like This' becoming her biggest hit plus a #1 as a feature and another fairly big top 10 hit (not to mention the album doing very well).

Michael Jackson 'Will You Be There' at #39 :o 6 places higher than Fleur's version. Also much higher than 'Man In The Mirror' (#78) and 'You Are Not Alone' (#144) despite those XF performances being higher (#25 and #34 respectively). Strange.

 

Probably because it is comparatively a much less known song of his? Even though it did originally chart at #8 in 1993...it's a very under-rated song, in my opinion.