In Sam Smith’s new interview on Michelle Visage’s Rule Breakers, they reveal details about their new album, open up about non-binary identity, and more.

“I think I’ve always been non-binary, I’ve always been queer. And I always felt that way, and when I found the words, I can’t believe how late I found the words, like 25, 26, someone told me about this thing called non-binary and I thought, ‘This is a place where I can exist.’ And it was magical. Very, very stressful and scary, but the minute I found those words and found this community, my inner peace was just still for the first time in years. It was incredible,” Sam explains.

 

 

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When asked about the meaning behind their new album titled ‘Gloria,’ Sam shared, “There’s a fighter voice in all of us and you’ve just got to look after that.  My album Gloria, I’ve called it Gloria because I’ve called that voice inside me Gloria. It’s like a voice in my head that just says, ‘You can do it’. And kids have just got to access that voice and feed it.”

 

 

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In their August Billboard cover story, Sam teased this their new music will focus on queer joy, “I think joy for me, and for a lot of queer people, is quite a dangerous place. We’re all masters of pain, and I think it’s actually a very courageous act to step into the queer joy of it all.”

 

Gloria will be available on January 27, 2023.

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