Sam Smith has revealed how and why he made Lady Gaga cry one time after emailing her.
Ms. Gaga tweeted on 11 September: “You're so special my baby. Your email made me cry @samsmithworld With the voice of an angel, u need no permission or advice. You're perfect.”
And in an interview with AMP Radio Boston, the 22-year-old stopped looking into mid-distance for every single photo of him ever taken to explain the context of the tweet.
“Someone had mentioned to me that Gaga knew of my stuff,” he said. “I was just completely overwhelmed by that.”
He then took a break from making his high-flying banker mum leave her £500,000-a-year job because she spent too long on his pop career to say: "I wrote her an email basically just saying, 'I remember being a 17-year-old, queuing up for your concert, dreaming up doing this and being in the music industry'.”
Smith also explained that he admired Lady Gaga’s ‘hustle’. "The thing I admire most about [her] was the hustle and what she did to get into the industry,” he said. “I just ran with it, saying, 'Thank you so much for inspiring me to do this because the reason why I'm here now is partly because of you'." So thank you for that, Lady Gaga.