Singer Sam Smith: "I am Large, I Contain Multitudes."
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Please do NOT deadpronoun Sam Smith.
They has always been they/them, no matter what the haters say.
And if they call them him they will have them arrested. https://t.co/tMcnjLePne
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) September 13, 2019
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Is this even a real guy? Are his bandmates named Jack Johnson and Mike Michaelowicz?
Sam Smith should congratulate themself for them’s bravery.
*And yes, I Ngrammed "antidote" with "for" vs. "against" and chose the more antiquated option....Replies: @Hypnotoad666
Their, there, Sammy.
As a classic song almost put it
“Sammy. I hardly knew youse.”
Okay, Sam. Too bad one of you isn’t Tom Petty.
Can I still say “He is a twat?” Does that cover all bases?
Because that’s what I thought the first time I heard the first couplet from him/they/it/that thing.
In an effort to get a foot in the door of the next big pronoun thing, going forward I would hereby like to be referred to as “Everydamnbody.”
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.
They is the New Gay
I have only ever heard one Sam Smith song conscious of the fact that Sam Smith was singing it. That was The theme song to the execrable Bond film called Spectre. Which I did not watch past the title sequence. That song won an Oscar. Could Hollywood be gayer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhCNvmLRoTo
So how does it work grammatically? “They are (or is) Sam Smith, the famous non-binary British singer/singers.”? “They are (is) a great singer/ great singers”?
We are confused. Also, I thought he was just gay.
I only know Sam Smith from this song:
He can hit them high notes but his voice isn’t as good as I remembered. For someone who’s non-binary you’d think he’d – ahem, you’d think they’d want to blend their head voice with their falsetto for a more androgynous sound, but here it’s mostly one or the other.
Compare to Jeff Buckley who was a master of that kind of register blending:
Jeff also had a well developed head voice, but his style was completely different than Smith's. You clearly prefer Buckley's style over Smith's.
I do, too, but it has nothing to do with falsetto.
Also (OT, to this comment, but not to Steve's article): why isn't the Petty estate filing on Smith? The melody it the same. No wonder it sounded so familiar when I first heard Smith singing it in 2014.
Oh, it’s that guy. I thought it was ironically-conventional-pop-rocker Sam Roberts.
Tom Petty lost it when he moved to California. He was a true cracker– from a place where that is taken as a compliment.
If someone as scrawny as Sam Smith contains multitudes, what the hell did Walter Hudson contain? The Hudson River? Hudson Bay?
I guess coming out as gay isn’t cool enough anymore. They have it take it to the next level.
You gotta think ahead of the curve man! To stay on top you have to keep an eye out for the latest thing.
https://nolala-oa4sxzzoh99xwp.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/waar-gaan-de-lyrics-van-Sam-Smith-over.jpg
http://www.donmoseslerman.com/mosesnews/mosesmailbag/uploaded_images/scan0091-736608.jpgReplies: @Anonymous
Looks like he ate a Hudson, I’m guessing a Hornet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
THE MAN WHO ATE AN AIRPLANE PIECE BY PIECE
https://airfactsjournal.com/files/2018/11/394dac70978a3d99a405f0b5dc67c817.jpg
#they/them
It is a measure of the insanity of our times that I am able to read and understand this sentence.
I get him confused with “Sudden” Sam McDowell.
Millenial music sucks. I’ve never heard of this guy but his brand of phony soul music is strange and off-putting. He looks and sounds like he was chemically castrated before puberty.
BTW, Steve, isn’t Jennifer Pritzker the trans-dude you went to College with? You know, the wealthiest lady alive who’s actually a dude? His whole family has ties to Epstein.
I thought that was Rothblatt.Replies: @BB753
Shouldn’t it be for “their bravery”? Irrationality is no antidote against pedantry!*
*And yes, I Ngrammed “antidote” with “for” vs. “against” and chose the more antiquated option….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUK6HlzNWEg&t=2m37s
He can hit them high notes but his voice isn't as good as I remembered. For someone who's non-binary you'd think he'd - ahem, you'd think they'd want to blend their head voice with their falsetto for a more androgynous sound, but here it's mostly one or the other.
Compare to Jeff Buckley who was a master of that kind of register blending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxqwq9BnjT0&t=1m30sReplies: @restless94110
Smith is in head the whole time. Falsetto is weakness and you can always tell if someone tries using it. Sam just has a well-developed head voice.
Jeff also had a well developed head voice, but his style was completely different than Smith’s. You clearly prefer Buckley’s style over Smith’s.
I do, too, but it has nothing to do with falsetto.
Also (OT, to this comment, but not to Steve’s article): why isn’t the Petty estate filing on Smith? The melody it the same. No wonder it sounded so familiar when I first heard Smith singing it in 2014.
It’s important to note that “he” is central to “they”.
Makes you wish they really made lightsabers.
https://youtu.be/5yZ8X5D7BloReplies: @kaganovitch
BTW, Steve, isn’t Jennifer Pritzker the trans-dude you went to College with?
I thought that was Rothblatt.
*And yes, I Ngrammed "antidote" with "for" vs. "against" and chose the more antiquated option....Replies: @Hypnotoad666
I dunno. “Them” is the person’s preferred pronoun. But — contrary to normal grammar — “them” is actually just one person. So I don’t think the pronoun should become plural when using the possessive. In other word’s, if “X” is the third person pronoun, then “X’s” should be the possessive for that single person. That was my thinking anyway.
I thought that was Rothblatt.Replies: @BB753
OK, I remember Steve mentioning Pritzker as an example of manly and energetic transexuals.
Also, Bob Marley stole Buffalo Soldier’s melody from The Banana Splits theme song. Some Rastafarian visionary sage holy man!
Nothing Marley ever did was half as spaced-out as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSy4t6EIUJk
One of Johnny Carson’s guests told of a man who ate a whole car. Johnny said he hoped it was a small one. No, the man replied, it was a Hudson.
This probably isn’t the guy, but he ate a Cessna 150. Yes, a Cessna:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
THE MAN WHO ATE AN AIRPLANE PIECE BY PIECE
I heard that song first in a Carnaby Street boutique in 1980 or 1985. I thought, who the hell is covering the Splits?
Nothing Marley ever did was half as spaced-out as this:
Thanks!
It speaks volumes about the decay of our civilisation.