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Sam Smith returns with new single ‘Too Good at Goodbyes’
the singer says the song is from personal experience
Sam Smith (Photo courtesy of the Merriweather Post Pavilion)
Sam Smith is back with his latest single “Too Good at Goodbyes,” his first release since his Oscar-winning “Writing’s on the Wall,” from the “Spectre” soundtrack.
The out singer explained in an interview with Amazon Music Unlimited’s “Side By Side Experience” that the song is about a failed relationship he was in last year.
“This song is — I’ll be very open about it — it’s about a relationship I was in in 2016. I basically got dumped about three times. And on the third time that everything ended, I had got so good at walking out the door that I kind of knew what to do, and I had a tick box in front of me of all the things I would do to get over this person,” the 25-year-old says.
As for his current relationship status, Smith told Beats 1 host Zane Lowe that he is still single.
“I’m still very, very single. I think I’m even more single than I was when I released In the Lonely Hour, so I’m insanely single,” Smith says. “People are gonna see, this one as I’ve said is about me and something that I’ve gone through.”
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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