Washington Post -
23 Jun 2014 22:51
There's a new viral video making the rounds featuring British R&B supernova Sam Smith performing a slowed-down live cover of Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know." Smith's version is a funeral dirge, slow and inconsolably sad. He isn't reinventing this once-joyous song; he's sifting through its wreckage. The video is a revelation -- Smith's voice is an increasingly supple and wondrous instrument -- and also a mistake. Some songs weren't meant to be sad.
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