{"id":1828879,"date":"2023-01-30T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828879"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:05:07","slug":"frankly-grotesque-internet-reacts-to-non-binary-singer-sam-smiths-new-sexually-charged-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frankly-grotesque-internet-reacts-to-non-binary-singer-sam-smiths-new-sexually-charged-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frankly Grotesque\u2019: Internet Reacts To Non-Binary Singer Sam Smith\u2019s New Sexually Charged Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrankly-grotesque-internet-reacts-to-non-binary-singer-sam-smiths-new-sexually-charged-music-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\">Sam Smith<\/a> His outrageously sexually charged behavior is drawing criticism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">Music video<\/a>The critics point out that the video is accessible to YouTube users who are young.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-k\">U.K.-<\/a>A performer based in Los Angeles, who is non-binary, has just released a new video. \u201cI\u2019m Not Here To Make Friends,\u201d This song is on their recent album. \u201cGloria.\u201d The video is full of sexual imagery. Smith dances in pasties while being surrounded by scantily dressed backup dancers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also one buzzed-about clip of the singer being sprayed in the mouth with water that some have interpreted to represent a bodily fluid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YouTube doesn&#8217;t have age restrictions for Sam Smiths sexualized new music videos. <\/p>\n<p>You can search it for five year olds and see the video with no content restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>This is not art, Sam Smith. This is not trendy. This isn&#8217;t empowering. This is monstrous! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SamSmith?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SamSmith<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NoDec6rtEE\">pic.twitter.com\/NoDec6rtEE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/1619424893938044928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYouTube does not have any age restrictions on Sam Smiths (sic) degrading sexualized new music video. 5 year olds can search this up and watch it with no content restrictions! Sam Smith, this is not art. This is not trendy. This is not empowering. This is monstrous,\u201d one Twitter account posted alongside a GIF from the music video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam Smith is a perfect example of what degenerate Hollywood culture does to people. It makes celebrities vulgar, hyper-sexualized and obsessed with wearing their sexuality like a costume and shoving it in everyone\u2019s face,\u201d another account agreed. \u201cAnd to make matters worse, kids look up to this man!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I just say I used to love Sam Smith when he made actual music,\u201d a third account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dominiquetaegon\/status\/1619425488946216961\">echoed<\/a>. \u201cSince then, he\u2019s become frankly grotesque, cheapened his talent and turned into a complete joke. Why isn\u2019t somebody close to him telling him he looks terrible?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith previously discussed the new album during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=583678893145132\">interview<\/a> with CBS Mornings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt this pressure, that I put on myself mostly, to do that every time and I was like, \u2018Okay, this is my \u2019brand,\u2019 you know, I am \u2018this\u2019 and then the arts started to suffer because of that,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The artist discussed how risky the album was to make. \u201cI think that you can\u2019t blame people for thinking something\u2019s not beautiful sometimes. Some people just didn\u2019t like it, but it was a case where I had to sit there and be like, \u2018Wait, maybe you don\u2019t like that because you don\u2019t understand it.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music industry is just not used to queer artists,\u201d Smith went on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been very sexual and very open and loved dancing and moving my body and singing and making songs that allow my body to move in the way that it does in front of people is just so exciting,\u201d the \u201cUnholy\u201d singer concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Sam Smith is facing criticism for his over-the-top, sexually charged music video, which critics point out is visible to young fans on YouTube. The 30-year-old U.K.-based performer, who identifies as non-binary, just dropped a new video for the single \u201cI\u2019m Not Here To Make Friends,\u201d which is featured on their recently-released album, \u201cGloria.\u201d The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1828882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16973,15306,3649,5996,3863,7057,4672,6912,11076,8665,14434,4440],"class_list":["post-1828879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-frankly","tag-grotesque","tag-charged","tag-internet","tag-music","tag-non-binary","tag-reacts","tag-sam","tag-sexually","tag-singer","tag-smiths","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}