Leave Your Lover - Single
Capitol
Release date: May 22, 2014 (Single / Music Video)
Get ready for a love triangle, of the unforeseen kind. Which come to think of it is not a triangle at all.
Sam Smith blasted onto international airwaves last year providing vocals to the playfully infectious 'La La La' by Naughty Boy, capturing our hearts as much as the catchy chorus did. He then went on to release his tastefully tragic studio effort, laden with lyrics arguably worse than a tear gas attack and ballads that will mercilessly play with your heartstrings. The fourth single off of it is 'Leave Your Lover', a guitar-breathed track that easily rivals any ode by the Queen of Heartbreaks: Adele.
The video begins with Sam sitting alone in a club feeling down before cutting to scenes of him with his two friends - a man and a woman – going about town enjoying each other's company before getting dressed and heading to a fancy dinner. They then end up dancing the night away before getting high in a hotel room. Throughout the video Sam and his friends are shown to be intimate with each other separately, to allude to a triangle tryst between the three of them, as per the song's title. Here's where the viewer gets it dead wrong as the final few seconds of the video reveal the truth. Sorry guys no full-blown spoilers here.
Ultimately the video is Sam's way of making a statement to the world about himself and about an impactful event in his life which functioned as the whole premise for his debut studio album In The Lonely Hour.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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