Sam Smith breaks out the ballad

Is any phrase more devastating than "I'm sorry, I love you but not in that way"?

It certainly made Sam Smith go a bit weepy, if his new single is anything to go by (Maybe she'd have thought differently if he'd sorted out that ridiculous haircut).

Sam, as you may recall, is the man on Naughty Boy's La La La and Disclosure's Latch, with a gorgeously soulful voice and a tendency to go falsetto, as if he's constantly being pranged in the nuts with a fork.

Not In That Way follows hot on the heels of his debut single Nirvana, which came out a couple of weeks ago. Sam calls it a demo, but any further embellishment could destroy its fragile beauty. Check it out below.

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