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Originally Posted by ribbons
^ I don't like his voice and topics, either. However, not knowing much about Sam Smith, I read a bit about him and learned that (by his own admission) he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. I wonder if that channels into a somewhat "anxious" viewpoint on relationships that is repeated emotionally in his songs.
[...]I was thinking the same!  Actually, I wouldn't even bother burning the clothes -- wouldn't want to give him the satisfaction. I'd just go quietly about my business, then leave! I guess I am very prideful. |
I did not know about Sam Smith's obsessive-compulsive disorder. Maybe that *does* inspire his somewhat anxious viewpoint on relationships repeated in his songs! In "Stay With Me," he acknowledges that he knows that pleading with someone to stay with him isn't going to work (to create love), but he does it again and again. OCD? Hmmm...
Which reminds me, why does the video that involves Sam Smith's singing "Stay With Me" show him as he is LEAVING some man after a one night stand?? That's a perplexing question to keep us up nights.
I think the woman in Sam Smith's "I'm Not The Only One" video needs a good divorce lawyer so she can slap the documents before her philandering husband and require that the house be left in her possession and
he be forced to leave.
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Originally Posted by Goofle
Sam Smith is decent in my book. Though I agree with Stay With Me, not a great song by any means. But I can deal with it over most of the stuff I used to listen to on a certain radio station at work.
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There are a few songs I can hardly stand to listen to in their entirety, so by that measure, "Stay With Me" is better. I've actually listened to it several times. Not happily, but I listened!
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Originally Posted by KNONE
I seriously feel my blood pressure go up anytime I hear anyone of these songs. Unfortunately, my boss at work has a collection of Now That's What I Call Music discs and he insists on playing them throughout the day. And these songs are spread throughout these discs.
Passenger - Let Her Go [...]
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I also abhor Passenger's "Let Her Go."
I wrote a very nice rant about "Let Her Go" of which I'm quite proud (
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ml#post1427221). My rant begins, "Retch!! Ack! I start going into spastic conniption fits whenever this song comes on the radio," and ends, "Finally, I hate his clothes."
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Originally Posted by Two Spirit
A good portion of Bruno Mars tracks do this ****, too. No matter how talented he is, the constant sucking up to women who don't even like him makes him hard to respect.
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I will have to listen to more Bruno Mars songs in the hopes that I'll hate some.
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Originally Posted by aux-in
Just heard this on a commercial:
Tommy James & The Shondells - "Mony Mony"
No thanks.
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Heh. I actually like that song.