Sam Smith

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Start your week with this powerful chat with one of Britain's best singers. In this in-depth interview, Fearne talks to Sam about self-acceptance, pronouns, and making big decisions while you're in the public eye.

Sam's new album, LoveGoes, is out now.

Content warning: references to anorexia, body image, OCD

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0:00.0	Before we start the show, be sure to check out the show notes if you need a heads up on the discussion.
0:05.1	Okay, here we go.
0:07.4	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and today we meet the wonderful Sam Smith.
0:14.5	I have quite intense OCD. I'm very comfortable losing weight and I'm very comfortable putting on
0:20.2	weight because they're too obsessive-sized and I'm comfortable when I'm obsessed with losing
0:26.0	weight because that feeds my OCD. You'll have seen Sam around recently. That's because there's
0:32.2	a new album out right now called Love Goes but you'll be hard push to find a more intimate conversation
0:38.5	with them than right here. So thank you Sam for coming on. Here's the show.
0:56.0	So Sam, I mean I haven't seen you for so long. I don't even know where to start. I think the last
1:10.0	thing we did together was that beautiful evening with Sam Smith that evening we did. I know.
1:15.7	The TV. Oh, it's so wonderful. And you know you've got this gorgeous album that is just full of these,
1:24.0	it's such a gorgeous mix of like stuff to dance to and then more emotive tracks that you're just
1:29.1	buzzing about it now. Have you listened to the record? I've heard the whole thing. They said
1:33.5	be a sneaky little link. Oh good, good, good. I'm feeling good. I'm excited. It's a weird time
1:41.5	to release music. It's been this album has honestly been so difficult. We've come up against it
1:48.0	loads with this record so it's going to be wonderful to set it free and move forward I think.
1:54.4	And is that problematic because of what we're living through sort of globally? Is the pandemic
1:58.8	affected it? Did you kind of feel nervous to release it in this kind of climate?
2:04.0	Yeah, I've so the majority of this record was made before COVID. So and it couldn't have been any
2:12.4	that you know the time that I wrote this album couldn't be any more opposite to the last seven months.
2:17.7	It was dancing and and traveling non-stop and and partying and just life was rich with music and
2:30.0	food and dancing and fun. Yeah. So it's releasing it during a time when it's it's completely opposite
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