Gay sam smith

Pop music – and specifically pop music stardom – has an incredible power to transform people into things they are not. The pop sphere enjoyed by my generation as teens transmogrified Morrissey into a sex symbol, Neil Tennant into an intellectual and Simon Le Bon into a surrealist poet.

More recently, pop’s alchemical potency has made Ed Sheeran someone people like to look at and Adele someone people want to hear from describing her emotional upsets at great length. But there are limits, and the singer Sam Smith has done us a favour by smashing into them.

For anxiety of seeming out of stroke, people will now applaud anything

In his new video – let’s not be detained discussing the song, a painfully generic flimsy soul confection – Smith cavorts with a gaggle of bum-twitching, writhing sexy dancers. That sounds plain enough, you will say. What I’ve kept back is that Smith himself is attired in a lacey basque and displaying full décolletage surmounted with silver nipple caps. That’s a bold move when you

Sam Smith: 'In the past scant years I became a gay man properly'

Sam Smith has opened up about his life between albums in a chat with none other than Sarah Jessica Parker for V Magazine.

The pair discussed everything from Smith's meteoric rise to fame to embracing stretch marks as Parker attempted to learn more about what she described as "the real troubadour of our time".

In the interview, Smith talked about not so much coming to terms with being gay but rather growing into it.

"In the past scant years," he told Parker, "I became a gay man properly. When I wrote that first album, I was in passion with a straight man, he didn't love me back, and I was very comfortable in my longing.

"With [The Thrill of It All], I became a gay man. I started having proper relationships with men. Sometimes they were in the erroneous and treated me in a bad way, and sometimes I was in the wrong."

Smith came out in with the let go of his first album, In the Lonely Hour, which was a brave move for a relatively unknown croon

Sam Smith reflects on becoming a gay 'spokesperson'

&#; -- Sam Smith may be good at communicating through his music, but saying the “right thing” doesn’t always come easily to him.

In an emotional new interview with The New York Times, the singer talks about the challenges of being a public figure.

The backlash against him reached a fever pitch after his infamously botched Oscar acceptance speech last year, during which he mistakenly claimed to be the first gay person to win an Oscar.

“I’m not the most eloquent person,” he admitted. “I didn’t fetch the best grades in noun. I mean, I’m just nice at singing.”

Smith, 25, says he looks to the late George Michael as a guide -- not just in music, but in the way he used his platform to be a spokesperson for the gay community.

“I just feel like I’m going to offend someone every hour I open my mouth,” he said. “I feel like George Michael had a way of being authentic to himself and honest in a way that was warm.”

“People forget but no one learns about gay history in school. Nothing. So I didn’t know anything about my history as

Barry Quinn

Barry Quinn is an English Language and Literature graduate and a Creative Writer MA studier. He is an aspiring artistic and professional writer and is currently in the process of writing his first novel. His writing blog can be viewed here: You can follow him on Twitter at: @mrbarryquinn