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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2022 12:34:10 GMT -5
Groovy little bop jam. I like it! :) I hope they have a faster bop coming and also a wicked ballad with some guitar solos. :)
I get why it wasn’t a ballad while not a fast bop, something fresh for a lead. This is nice for spring :)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2022 9:53:13 GMT -5
Obsessed after a few listens! :) Such a feel-good track, I can see it lingering for a while. :)
I hear this being played during pride, I can feel the mix of UV, sun, and rain, that seems to happy at pride every year! ☀️
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Post by yog on Apr 30, 2022 10:46:46 GMT -5
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Post by Envoirment on Apr 30, 2022 11:49:31 GMT -5
This is quite weak. I was hoping for another bop from them. Hopefully there are some great songs on the album that will manage to do well. "Dancing With A Stranger", "How Do You Sleep" & "Diamonds" were all great.
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Post by Leo ✔ on Apr 30, 2022 13:59:47 GMT -5
POP -- 42 SAM SMITH Love Me More 813 0 813 3.606 + 501 spins + 501 bullet + 2.280 audience
HOT AC -- 41 SAM SMITH Love Me More 297 0 297 1.458
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Post by rihannabiggestfan on Apr 30, 2022 15:16:11 GMT -5
Sam has our support yogLmao at the rats on ATRL fuming at Sam tho, I had to laugh
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Post by Elusive Chanteuse on Apr 30, 2022 15:37:00 GMT -5
Hmm. I need more time for it to grow on me. Diamonds and How Do You Sleep are both instant for me, so I wish this was something in that vein.
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Post by yog on Apr 30, 2022 16:34:32 GMT -5
Sam has our support yogLmao at the rats on ATRL fuming at Sam tho, I had to laugh Who? Anyways… this song is still an vibe
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Post by samo🦕 on Apr 30, 2022 16:36:26 GMT -5
hot mitski cover?
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Post by divasummer on Apr 30, 2022 20:45:22 GMT -5
First listen I didn’t think I cared for it but after listening with my headphones on I think I was to quick to judge. It’s a cute little bop. Lately I haven’t been huge on the self empowerment lyric type songs but I’ll get over it. This is nice. I hope it does well.
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Post by yog on May 1, 2022 10:27:50 GMT -5
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Post by Leo ✔ on May 1, 2022 13:31:02 GMT -5
POP -- 39 SAM SMITH Love Me More 1170 0 1170 4.960 + 357 spins + 357 bullet + 1.354 audience
HOT AC -- 36 SAM SMITH Love Me More 431 0 431 1.873 + 134 spins + 134 bullet + 0.415 audience
AC -- 40 SAM SMITH Love Me More 13 0 13 0.042
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Post by Sir Benji on May 1, 2022 14:42:27 GMT -5
This started off "Stay with Me"-ish and got better as time went on. I'm a sucker for a good self love tune.
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Post by dwindeezy on May 1, 2022 18:50:55 GMT -5
This is nice to me. Love the feel of it and it's a grower. I could see this doing decent for him actually.
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Post by Leo ✔ on May 2, 2022 13:05:33 GMT -5
POP -- 35 SAM SMITH Love Me More 1556 0 1556 6.278 + 368 spins + 386 bullet + 1.318 audience
HOT AC -- 33 SAM SMITH Love Me More 553 0 553 2.226 + 122 spins + 122 bullet + 0.353 audience
AC -- 38 SAM SMITH Love Me More 14 0 14 0.046
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on May 2, 2022 13:14:17 GMT -5
I still don’t like Sam’s voice really but I don’t think this is a bad song. Not getting the “Stay With Me” comparisons. All ballads aren’t the same. This is beat-driven and “Stay With Me” wasn’t?
I don’t like the attempt as rhyming “before” with “myself,” which in turn follows the previous two lines “health” and “else,” which are fine. But the jump to “before” just throws me right off in the rhyming and it sounds bad to me. (Though it makes sense given the next line ends with “love me more,” completing the couplet. It just sounds off to me.)
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Post by Leigh on May 2, 2022 13:35:35 GMT -5
I still don’t like Sam’s voice really but I don’t think this is a bad song. Not getting the “Stay With Me” comparisons. All ballads aren’t the same. This is beat-driven and “Stay With Me” wasn’t? It's the opening chorus before the beat kicks in; it straight up sounds like Stay With Me to me.
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Post by Left Of Center on May 2, 2022 14:28:14 GMT -5
It's a move I noted because it plays into a broader one about Sam Smith's career as a whole, which is privileged, pampered, financier Mom backed, focus grouped, naked-capitalism branded as underdog/counter-cultural soul-bearing. Capitol may or may not have the 'non-binary Adele' angle locked back in earnest, but the 'love' EPs, stripped back live albums, Coldplay covers etc. all telegraph the pivot. Which is a predictably cynical move in a career chock full of them. You could be forgiven for mistaking this single thread for the near-barren void you spam/multi-post to crickets + tumblweed in the Sam Smith album thread, but it isn't. Anyone is at liberty to post reactions to new music in new music threads. Who would have thought something this good was hidden in a Sam Smith thread on Pulse of all places? A+ content
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Heard a little bit of the song and I can't say I like it. I especially dislike the lyrics, they felt very shallow and obvious. And the beat feels very mismatched with a song about no longer crying yourself to sleep. Diamonds was a good song, a shame it wasn't a big enough hit to warrant a 2.0
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Post by Ling-Ling on May 2, 2022 14:44:33 GMT -5
Outside of the places where Sam goes into full on milk voice (ugh, stop that), this is okay. Way less boring than the clips sounded. I still find myself consistently disappointed by the production of their material though. This could have been so much deeper and groovier, sounds kind of flat and canned.
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Post by Leo ✔ on May 3, 2022 9:41:10 GMT -5
POP -- 33 SAM SMITH Love Me More 1858 0 1858 7.291 + 302 spins + 302 bullet + 1.013 audience
HOT AC -- 29 SAM SMITH Love Me More 670 0 670 2.556 + 117 spins + 117 bullet + 0.330 audience
AC -- 37 SAM SMITH Love Me More 15 0 15 0.060 + 1 spin + 1 bullet + 0.014 audience
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Post by Au$tin on May 3, 2022 17:00:10 GMT -5
Added by Z100 & KIIS. Still waiting on the full report to see how many adds it got in total.
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Post by Jose Polica on May 3, 2022 17:54:39 GMT -5
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Post by Leo ✔ on May 4, 2022 10:48:50 GMT -5
POP -- 31 SAM SMITH Love Me More 2213 0 2213 8.308 + 355 spins + 355 bullet + 1.017 audience
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Post by Jack on May 4, 2022 16:38:23 GMT -5
Who would have thought something this good was hidden in a Sam Smith thread on Pulse of all places? A+ content Heard a little bit of the song and I can't say I like it. I especially dislike the lyrics, they felt very shallow and obvious. And the beat feels very mismatched with a song about no longer crying yourself to sleep. Diamonds was a good song, a shame it wasn't a big enough hit to warrant a 2.0 Shallow is exactly the word for it. Sam's career is birthed out of certainly shallowness IMO. A certain transparent, hollow commercial privilege that seldom flows in anything but one way. Take the 'blue eyed soul' thing for instance. A fairly hideous expression, and an irritating phenom, but I have a point. "White people who 'sound like black people'" are seen as commercially viable and interesting. The reverse is not true. Again, before Sam identified as non-binary...the same applies with "OMG, big diva voice, high vocals, hard to believe it comes from a man". This doesn't work in reverse. Few women with low, masculine singing voices are afforded commercial opportunities for sounding so. The beneficiary of such privilege becoming a figurehead of representation, feels somewhat ironic given that.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2022 21:31:26 GMT -5
I bet you’re fun at a party. I don’t see it as serious as you’re making it, you almost sound bitter, but that’s just me.
Everyone has their own journey, we only see from outside the fish bowl. I however am a gay man and I have supported Sam since La La, and bought his (at the time) album the moment HMV opened at the mall on release day. I enjoy their music, for the most part, except the last album didn’t click with me. I’m also not going to say women aren’t supporting their music, but I honestly don’t give a f**k. Sam makes the music Sam wants, and all that matters is hopefully people support it. They can’t choose who enjoys or supports it. There are tons of artists who have fanbases that you wouldn’t expect, it happens. But to say, Sam is some puppet is a joke. And is this song catering to the people you believe supports Sam’s music?! Not really, it’s catering to us all. ;)
Sue someone for making a self empowerment song while being vulnerable in hopes to help other people that might be feeling like they are. How dare you, Sam.
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Post by yog on May 4, 2022 21:40:20 GMT -5
That user really has nothing going on if their spending all their time writing “think-pieces” on someone who he clearly doesn’t like, very tiring and pretentious at best… 💤
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Post by yog on May 4, 2022 21:58:48 GMT -5
I bet you’re fun at a party. I don’t see it as serious as you’re making it, you almost sound bitter, but that’s just me. Everyone has their own journey, we only see from outside the fish bowl. I however am a gay man and I have supported Sam since La La, and bought his (at the time) album the moment HMV opened at the mall on release day. I enjoy their music, for the most part, except the last album didn’t click with me. I’m also not going to say women aren’t supporting their music, but I honestly don’t give a f**k. Sam makes the music Sam wants, and all that matters is hopefully people support it. They can’t choose who enjoys or supports it. There are tons of artists who have fanbases that you wouldn’t expect, it happens. But to say, Sam is some puppet is a joke. And is this song catering to the people you believe supports Sam’s music?! Not really, it’s catering to us all. ;) Sue someone for making a self empowerment song while being vulnerable in hopes to help other people that might be feeling like they are. How dare you, Sam. This is pretty much evident what Sam literally just said in their “YouTube Afterparty” Quote: I’m scared of losing fans because they want the same thing, but I can’t do the same thing…Sam wants to evolve with the music! youtu.be/cTuN7hBZm6E
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Post by Jack on May 5, 2022 4:14:37 GMT -5
I bet you’re fun at a party. Have you heard of Piers Morgan? This is precisely the kind of response he offers up. I don’t see it as serious as you’re making it, you almost sound bitter, but that’s just me. Everyone has their own journey, we only see from outside the fish bowl. I however am a gay man and I have supported Sam since La La, and bought his (at the time) album the moment HMV opened at the mall on release day. I enjoy their music, for the most part, except the last album didn’t click with me. I’m also not going to say women aren’t supporting their music, but I honestly don’t give a f**k. Sam makes the music Sam wants, and all that matters is hopefully people support it. They can’t choose who enjoys or supports it. There are tons of artists who have fanbases that you wouldn’t expect, it happens. But to say, Sam is some puppet is a joke. And is this song catering to the people you believe supports Sam’s music?! Not really, it’s catering to us all. ;) You can see it however you want. Sam has been a beneficiary of subversions that only go in one direction. Rather than say "Hmm, I never really looked at it like that before" or not say anything given that (again) this isn't a fan forum and Sam doesn't require online security detail, you've opted to unleash a party bag of clichés (journeys, fish bowls, fridge-magnet-circular 'it is what it is it isn't what it isn't' eye rollers) and failed to use the quote function while doing it. Elsewhere, being accused of having 'nothing to do' by someone double/triple posting into oblivion (often to silence), each time on the same subject, who is online at all hours ready to quote and reply in defense of Sam within about 90 seconds of anybody posting on the subject is rich. Like I say, there are corners of the internet where Sam's latest mediocre offering is fawned over/ career remains un-scrutinized or unassailed. Hypersensitive fanatics aren't likely to make this one of them.
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Post by Dammn Baby on May 5, 2022 6:26:05 GMT -5
This sound again?!?!? I am tired of their ballads and wish they would explore the vibe of Promises and serve some uptempo bangers.
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Post by Leo ✔ on May 5, 2022 10:12:53 GMT -5
POP -- 28 SAM SMITH Love Me More 2653 0 2653 9.515 + 440 spins + 440 bullet + 1.207 audience
HOT AC -- 24 SAM SMITH Love Me More 943 0 943 3.261 + 143 spins + 143 bullet + 0.346 audience
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