What a plonker!

I love his voice but can’t be bothered with all his shenanigans….

The Beeb has been including a night of modern music featuring different pop genres for a while now. Remember last year’s excellent Northern Soul concert?

You may not like Sam Smith’s voice or his shenanigans and I always struggle with they/them pronouns (can’t be bothered if I’m honest) but if I’d switched over I would have missed the BBC Concert Orchestra’s excellent arrangements of his hit songs and the very accomplished LJ Singers who backed him.

For me it was more than just a Jock in a Frock!

We were quite enjoying it even though we couldn't always make out the words to the songs. Then he turned up in his huge raspberry meringue of a frock, he looked quite ridiculous, so I read my book with him as background music

Poppyred

I love his voice but can’t be bothered with all his shenanigans….

This.

I often listen to him, although he can be a bit whiny and his lyrics (specially the early ones) needy, he has a good voice and the production etc of his albums is (IMO) good.

I can't bear to watch him these days, though, and his earlier neediness has turned to exhibitionism as he got more successful.

They can cross dress and behave any way they want as long as I don’t have to watch .

I out him on to hear his voice but was disappointed, its not very good. As for the other nonsense perhaps its his theraphy..

He has said that he identifies as semi-bisexual.

Well, he definitely needs some kind of therapy! He obviously didn't learn the difference between singular and plural pronouns… Or maybe he has cloned himself. Perish the thought.

I didn’t watch, but this afternoon I caught the end the the Proms on Radio 3, Mass in Troubled Times by John Pickard. I was very troubled by it. Just glad my choir didn’t have to sing it. Unsingable. Sorry.

Is anyone truthfully enjoying ‘Songs from the Countryside’ being performed at the moment?

Even my dog has decided to have an early night! 😱

Well I recorded Sam Smith, so I could fast forward but hear enough to get the idea. Which I did. I thought he had a disappointingly weak voice and the songs mostly sounded the same. Not really impressed, especially when he started prancing around in his fluffy red dress. The climax of the show was when he added a hat with huge devils horns, and starting singing Unholy. Couldn't keep away from his Satanic leanings for one night.

Sam Smith isn’t gay, is he? I believe he is non binary. If that excuses his dress sense!!!

Sam Smith has a good voice, I do like listening to him. But I too pass in watching him perform.

Chestnut

Well I recorded Sam Smith, so I could fast forward but hear enough to get the idea. Which I did. I thought he had a disappointingly weak voice and the songs mostly sounded the same. Not really impressed, especially when he started prancing around in his fluffy red dress. The climax of the show was when he added a hat with huge devils horns, and starting singing Unholy. Couldn't keep away from his Satanic leanings for one night.

Says it all really doesn’t it? 😬

JamesandJon33

Sam Smith isn’t gay, is he? I believe he is non binary. If that excuses his dress sense!!!

He’s certainly something

Non binary means you acknowledge that there are only two sexes. If your birth sex doesn’t get you enough attention, but you don’t want to give it up, say you’re non-binary.
There are even people who are inventing weirder statuses for themselves because non-binary is so passé now.

I love his voice, am really not bothered about what he wears!

There is also gender fluid where people change from one day to the next. There are even You Tube videos to help people identify themselves as gender fluid. The world really has gone barking mad.

At one time the BBC were teaching young children that there were 100 different genders. I think that has stopped now.

I'm going to come out as a heterosexual female
literally, nobody cares

JaneJudge

I'm going to come out as a heterosexual female
literally, nobody cares

Yes, exactly. I quite enjoyed the show - he does have a good voice, but at times I thought the mic had a loose connection as I couldn't hear him very well. His 'gender' and sexuality (whatever semi-bisexual means) are irrelevant, and I don't know why he has to make such a big deal of either. Homosexuality is hardly a unique selling point in the music industry, is it?

I would love to be able to see George Michael perform again - he would have been amazing with backing like that. We all knew he was gay, but that was neither here nor there. It made no difference to his singing or performance.

I'm in no way suggesting that gay performers should keep it to themselves - it is part of who they are and nothing to be ashamed of. But there is no need to make every performance about that. Reassuring as it was to hear SS say he wasn't planning to 'get his bum out', that should have gone without saying, IMO

Yes, Yes, Yes to Doodledog 's comment - especially the George Michael bit ! Gay should never become a gimmick.

If he wants to dress in a dress OK but it seems very odd in my book especially as he has a beard as well. AND it's in the RAH. It's not for me but if people like it he's not doing anyone any harm.
Just a thought! Women singers often wear trousers!!!!!!

I have one good thing to say about SS and that was he didn't swear. I remember Adele at the Royal Albert Hall years ago effing and blinding.

And last year a singer called Raye also performed there with a huge orchestra and choir. As soon as she walked over to the microphone she screamed the magical words 'Are you f***ing joking!'

After that the songs were all full of anger, bitterness, foul language and vocal gymnastics. To be honest, I couldn't even understand what she was wailing on about, even though I had sub-titles to decipher the words!

The orchestra were amazing, the choir sang beautifully, except they were effing and blinding too!

Oh dear me, what a plonker.

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