SAM SMITH & NORMANI –

DANCING WITH A STRANGER

Is this song a coy plug for casual homo-sex disguised as a heteronormative duet? Sam’s chart success with Calvin Harris’ on Promises was never going to be easy to follow. Rather than lobbing into another dancefloor thumper for his first new material of 2019, Sam has switched to R&B. File next to George Michael teaming up with Aretha Franklin on I Knew You Were Waiting For Me – good old-fashioned gay boy white soul. “I’m so excited for everyone to hear Dancing With A Stranger, which I wrote on The Thrill Of It All tour last year,” Sam confided to DNA. “For me, it bottles everything I was feeling while juggling my personal life and touring.”