Smith, a rare vocal talent and genuinely delightful celebrity, seems to bathe nightly in the gloom and melancholy of this sub-genre. Pop is brimming with what we will call Sad Bastard Music. In fact, based solely upon his music, his epitaph might read, “Everything was beautiful, and everything hurt.” There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire, Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It's an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone.įor both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one knows that better than English singer/songwriter Sam Smith.
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