If you actually listen to my vocal, I'm not even trying to sing or sound pretty because I was so upset and sad. 'Good Thing', for me, is the darkest song on the record. He started playing some music and the song was then basically already written. I was showing him some things I had been saying between me and another guy, and he was writing down everything I was saying. 'With this song, I showed him my text messages. We didn't actually start making music at the beginning of the session, we would sit and he would just ask me about what I was going through. With all the songs we did together, we wrote in a very odd way. Eg knows more about my private life than a lot of people do. 'Working with Eg White was an incredible experience, and this song was one of them. So the next day I rang up Two Inch Punch and I actually went in with him and we wrote a song about that guy.' 'I remember just thinking in the moment, 'I'm not going to do the writing session the next day with you, because this is just bulls**t'. I didn't get too angry, except he got quite malicious about the whole thing. He was basically asking me to write him a hit song, so I could buy him a new car. They hardly wrote anything and they were also about the material things. 'I had two writing sessions booked in with someone in the music industry and on the first one we basically got into an argument and the person I was writing with was making music for the wrong reasons. Since its release back in May, it has become the biggest selling debut album in both the US and UK, as well as being honoured with a nomination for Album of the Year at the 57th annual Grammy Awards.Īfter Digital Spy decided to name In the Lonely Hour the best album of 2014, we caught up with Sam to find out more about the inspiration, process and stories behind each of its tracks. 'I sit here all day every day at the moment dissecting what it is that's made this album connect,' Sam Smith told us recently, reflecting on the immense success of his debut album In the Lonely Hour.

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