Grammy Awards 2015: Sam Smith, the singer of deeply sad love songs

Stay With Me is the best love song of 2014, sung by a gay guy named Sam Smith, inspired by unrequited same-sex love. This song has just been honored with the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

If you are lonely on Valentine’s Day, listen to Sam Smith’s song. Or even if you are not unhappy, you should listen to Stay With Me, because people always need love, just like the song says: “I need love because I am a human being”.

It's worth noting that Sam Smith wrote this song when he was completely alone. He was in love with a straight man and he wasn't loved back. Now he's the world's most popular love singer.

Songs must be sung with all the soul

Smith has just won 4 Grammy Awards, including 3 important awards: Best New Artist, Song of the Year and Record of the Year, all for the love song Stay With Me. He is the brightest star of this year's Grammy, worthy of the title "Adele male version". Since 2012, a super British voice has once again dominated the prestigious American music awards.

Countless people have covered Stay With Me on YouTube, from professional singers like Grammy-nominated Ed Sheeran to YouTube stars like Boyce Avenue or Sam Tsui, and even lesser-known fans.

Sam Smith shines at the 2015 Grammys with a love song born from true sadness

This is not a difficult song to sing, but it requires deep emotion. The simple melody and simple arrangement require the most skillful voice. Therefore, the covers on YouTube are evenly matched in emotion, something that only Smith, who directly composed and experienced the feeling in the song, understands best.

When the very pretty 15-year-old singer Madison Beer covered Stay With Me with a good voice but a smug expression, a lot of listeners immediately knew it was a bad cover. Worse, it was a soulless cover.

Stay With Me captures the hearts of listeners with its soulful soul. The song is a deep sadness of unrequited love, something few people have not experienced in their lives. When this melody is played, there is no joy in it, only a feeling of numbness and loneliness. And it is the best record of 2014, at least according to the Grammy results on the night of February 8.

Pain and happiness, which side is stronger?

It is said that “inspiration” is the most important criterion of music, and every time Smith sings “Stay With Me”, the audience feels those two simple words deeply. His duet with singer Mary J. Blige at the recent Grammy Awards was no exception.

Emotion is something that is difficult to explain, not easy to put into words, but very easy to feel. Listening to Stay With Me and immersing yourself in a deep sadness, that is enough to say, the rest is silence.

Stay With Me is about a gay man’s feelings after a one-night stand. He wakes up feeling miserable and lonely, but still wants to hold on to the other person even though he knows that person doesn’t love him. “This isn’t love, that’s clear. But if I need you, will you hold my hand?” – Smith sings, his blue eyes filled with sadness.

Not only Stay With Me, the entire debut album In The Lonely Hour is about that love, that man, the person he fell in love with in 2013 but was never loved back.

“I’m over it now, but I was in a very bad mood,” the singer said in a 2014 interview. “I was always lonely because I never felt loved. I thought about negative things. Which emotion was stronger: pain or happiness?”

The answer for most people is “it depends.” But for Smith, it’s “pain.” It’s that kind of extreme emotion that drives him to music, to write melodies and lyrics that, with his talent, turn into beautiful songs. This puts him once again alongside Adele, who sings sad but powerful love songs.

According to TTVH