Smith did an interview with Beats1 DJ Zane Lowe earlier this week and talked about the record:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis song is about me and about a relationship I was in\u2026What I\u2019ve been through relationship-wise the last year has made me a lot stronger\u2026and I feel like I\u2019ve learned some lessons from it. This album actually is not all about me. There\u2019s about four songs that are about me, and the rest are about different things and different people in my life and what they\u2019ve gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also told Lowe that he\u2019s still single:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing is that I\u2019m still very, very single. I think I\u2019m even more single than I was when I released\u00a0In the Lonely Hour<\/em>. So, I\u2019m insanely single.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n He also talked about the album cover:<\/p>\n \u201cMy favorite flowers are dead flowers. I think the colors are really really beautiful. So for my album cover shoot\u2026we got loads and loads of dead flowers, but it didn\u2019t actually work out for the cover in the end. We had this beautiful picture that we made black and white and, I don\u2019t know, it symbolizes goodbyes to me.\u201d<\/p>\n And what fame has done to him:<\/p>\n \u201cMy fame and what happens when you become well known really scared me. I became very distant to my family and friends just because our lives weren\u2019t relatable. So, that was really tough for me. When I\u2019m not close to my family I freak out and I\u2019m just not the best person I could be. Then, I\u2019d say the best moments were just being here for them. For it to not be about me for one year was absolutely wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen to the interview:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Sam Smith\u2019s First New Track in Two Years is Here \u2013 \u2018Too Good at Goodbyes\u2019 \u2014 LISTEN<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n