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Friday 4 March 2016

Sam Smith on new album:

‘I’m going even deeper’

MESFIN FEKADU ing song titles like “Leave the Wall” from the James In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Sam Smith arrives at Saint Laurent
AP Music Writer Your Lover” and “I’m Not Bond film “Spectre.” He at the Palladium at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you the Only One.” It reached says there’s a “few mo-
thought Sam Smith was multiplatinum status in the ments” on his first album Associated Press
deeply honest on his first al- United States and won four “where I think to myself, ‘I
bum, expect him to take it Grammy Awards, includ- would have changed that.
a step further on his sopho- ing song and record of the I would have done that dif-
more release. year for “Stay With Me.” ferently.’”
“It’s (expletive) great. It’s As he reflects on that al- Smith added that when he
really deep (stuff) that’s bum, Smith says he has began to rise in the United
coming out — that’s all I’ll mixed feelings about his Kingdom as a featured act
say,” a smiling Smith said in breakthrough project. on Disclosure’s dance song
a recent interview. “There’s a few songs I re- “Latch” — originally re-
He wouldn’t say when his ally (expletive) hate, but leased in late 2012 — there
follow-up to 2014’s “In the then the core of the album, was some confusion about
Lonely Hour” will be re- songs like ‘Stay With Me,’ which musical direction he
leased, but said he’s push- ‘I’m Not the Only One’ — should take.
ing himself to explore new actually all the songs ex- “As soon as ‘Latch’ had a
territory. cept ‘Money on My Mind’ lot of success in (the) U.K.,
“Every day I’m having little — I really love and I’m re- my label and me had a lit-
epiphanies and changes ally proud of the classic- tle bit of a panic. We were
and loving it. But all I can ness of the way they sound, like, ‘Maybe we should
say is that I’m putting my because I still listen to them be doing dance?’ And
heart even more out on the now and I still love them,” that’s what I can hear on
(expletive) line,” Smith said. he said. “The music I’m (my first) album — there’s
“I’m going even deeper. I making at the moment, it’s two or three songs where I
can’t believe I’m even do- very much a beautiful little can hear the little wobble,
ing it, but I’m going even transition from there and it but the rest of the album is
deeper.” fits.” what I set out to make from
“In the Lonely Hour” fea- Smith co-wrote his de- the beginning,” he said.
tured emotional pop songs but album and also won “But I still love my album,
about love lapses and an Academy Award for but I’m loving my new one
unrequited love, includ- co-writing “Writing’s on (expletive) more.”q

Judge grants media request to unseal

Bobbi Kristina autopsy

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge In this Feb. 12, 2011 file photo, singer Whitney Houston, left, and
in Atlanta has granted a daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive at the Pre-Grammy Gala &
news media request to un- Salute to Industry Icons with Clive Davis honoring David Geffen
seal the autopsy report for in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Bobbi Kristina Brown.
Fulton County Superior Associated Press
Court Judge Henry Newkirk
on Thursday granted a mo-
tion filed by media organi-
zations. Media lawyers ar-
gued the September seal-
ing order violated the state
and federal constitutions
and court rules because
there was no public notifi-
cation or opportunity for a
hearing. The state argued
the law exempts records
sealed by court order.
Fulton County District At-
torney Paul Howard said
in a statement he believes
the records should remain
sealed but that he will fol-
low the instructions of the
court. The 22-year-old
daughter of singer Whitney
Houston was found face-
down and unresponsive in
a bathtub in her suburban
Atlanta townhome Jan. 31,
2015, and died in hospice
care July 26.