“Nearly ten years after their debut, Sam Smith is releasing their deepest album yet: ‘Gloria’. Sam meets up with Zane Lowe in New York for a wide-ranging conversation ahead of their Saturday Night Live performance.
Sam Smith discusses how ‘In the Lonely Hour’ feels in hindsight’, and reveals how years of playing into a character separated their public and private lives, making many people around them resistant to the more sexualized direction of ‘Gloria.’ Sam reveals the personal struggles that they’ve conquered to get to where they are today, including homophobia, transphobia, OCD, and body dysmorphia, and how music remained their saving grace.”
