Sam Smith - Stay With Me

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

Music

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sam Smith is a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter from London, England. Their first album, In the Lonely Hour, came out in 2014. It went quintuple platinum in the US, and the biggest hit from that album is the song “Stay With Me,” which has over 2 billion streams on Spotify alone. For this episode, in honor of the song’s 10th anniversary, I talked to Sam about how “Stay With Me” was made. I also talked to Sam’s frequent collaborator, Jimmy Napes, who is an award-winning producer and songwriter as well. The two of them tell the story of how the song began, and how it turned into the hit that it became. And then, years later, how it changed again.

For more, visit songexploder.net/sam-smith.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to song-explanter where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishi Kesh Hirway.
0:11.0	I have a few live events this week that I wanted to tell you about. On Wednesday, July 24th in LA,
0:16.4	I'm going to be doing a song-exploder live event with Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields.
0:20.7	We're going to be talking about the Magnetic Fields masterpiece album, 69 love songs.
0:25.0	After the conversation, Stephen will play an intimate solo set.
0:28.0	This is not going to be recorded for the podcast, so the only way to experience it is to come to the Ford Emp Theater on Wednesday, July 24th.
0:35.0	And then on Thursday, July 25th in LA, I'm playing at the Echo, along with Owen, which is Mike Kinsella from American Football's solo project.
0:44.0	We're also playing together on Friday, July 26th in San Francisco at bottom of the hill.
0:49.0	You can find tickets for all of these events at song explodeer. Net slash live.
0:53.8	Hope to see you there.
0:55.7	Song Exploder is supported by BBC Sounds, presenting Make Me a Mix Tape.
1:00.6	Every Tuesday on Make Me a Mix tape, Clara Ampho and Jordan Stevens go head to head,
1:05.6	curating a bespoke mixtape for a listener or celebrity guest.
1:09.1	The duo flex their musical passion and knowledge in a friendly competition with the guests deciding who wins.
1:14.9	Ruted in the nuance of human music creation, make me a mixtape is a refreshing break from algorithm-driven
1:20.2	playlists.
1:21.6	Every episode is filled with heart and hilarious conversations as these
1:24.7	two friends and fierce rivals debate their way to mixtape perfection. Listen first on BBC
1:30.6	sounds. This episode contains explicit language. on BBC Sounds.
1:32.6	This episode contains explicit language.
1:39.6	Sam Smith is a Grammy and Oscar winning singer and songwriter from London, England.
1:44.0	Their first album in The Lonely Hour came out in 2014.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hrishikesh Hirway, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hrishikesh Hirway and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.