Hearing Sam tell us the story made you know for a fact that he truly loves making music and does it because it is his passion and could care less about the money aspect, which is how music should be. He also sang Money on My Mind and told us it is about someone he worked with only being in this industry for the money. He sang this flawlessly and it gave me chills listening to his angelic voice singing a classic.ĭuring the concert I heard some of my favorites: Lay Me Down, Like I Can, I'm Not the Only One, and Stay With Me. Towards the end of the song, he made the perfect transition into the song Can't Help Falling in Love. The next thing he said was something that really stuck with me. After he told us he doesn't have the same emotion when singing these songs as he did when he first wrote them, he said 'these songs aren't my songs anymore, they're yours.' Hearing him say this made me have so much more respect for him. He said that writing these songs helped him get over the sad times he went through with the person that broke his heart and that he is now over him. Before he sang his song Not in That Way, he told the audience that he has never been in a 'proper relationship' where someone has truly loved him back. As he was going through the songs, I could tell each song was written with so much emotion that could not be written without having experienced those emotions firsthand. He sang every song on the CD and told the audience what certain songs meant and what inspired him to write them. In the Lonely Hour tells his story of love, heartbreak, and hope.

He definitely is one of those artists who sounds better in person than on his CD. I've always liked his music and knew he had an amazing voice, but hearing it in person made me realize he really does have a voice of an angel. On September 30, 2015, I went to Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour concert with some family.

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