![]() ![]() ![]() While the song is apparently fictional and not about Smith himself, it’s a powerful moment on the album in which Smith finds new ways to be honest - ways that may not be his personal story but still reveal a kind of truth.īut the lyrics often lack the cleverness necessary for music that deals with emotions which may otherwise come across as trite or immature.Īnd young people are prone to making mistakes - when Smith won an Academy Award for his 2015 song “Writing’s on the Wall,” written for the James Bond film “Spectre,” he claimed in his acceptance speech that he was the first openly gay man to win an Oscar. “ Say I shouldn’t be here but I can’t give up his touch / It is him I love, it is him,” Smith sings in a gospel-inspired ballad. ![]() In “The Thrill of It All,” Smith has abandoned this, perhaps most noticeably on the standout track “HIM,” in which he sings the story of a boy from Mississippi grappling with his faith and sexuality. He didn’t want to alienate listeners whom he thought would not relate to a man singing about a man - even though that’s exactly what he was doing. In Smith’s first album, he was deliberate in not using pronouns in his lyrics - he was living as an out gay man, but when asked about it, claimed that he wanted his music to have a universal quality. ![]()
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