{"id":805211,"date":"2020-03-13T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=966856"},"modified":"2020-03-13T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:31:41","slug":"watch-sam-smith-perform-stripped-down-to-die-for-in-golden-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-sam-smith-perform-stripped-down-to-die-for-in-golden-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sam Smith Perform Stripped-Down \u2018To Die for\u2019 in Golden Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SSmith.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-smith\/\">Sam Smith<\/a> has stripped down their latest single \u201cTo Die for\u201d in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/acoustic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_acoustic\" data-tag=\"acoustic\">acoustic<\/a> version.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed and recorded live in Los Angeles, the new rendition features Smith accompanied by cello and piano inside a golden recording studio. According to a press statement, Smith intended this version of \u201cTo Die for\u201d to resemble their earliest musical releases.<\/p>\n<p>Smith released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sam-smith-to-die-for-donnie-darko-952678\/\">the original version of the song<\/a> on Valentine\u2019s Day, featuring a vocal sample from the 2001 cult film&nbsp;<em>Donnie Darko<\/em>. On the same day, Smith announced their upcoming third album of the same name, due out May 1st via Capitol Records.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xrKQyePCfgk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">behind-the-scenes clip<\/a> for the making-of the \u201cTo Die for\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_music-video\" data-tag=\"music-video\">music video<\/a>, where Smith posed as a disembodied mannequin head in a storefront window, Smith revealed that they wrote the song the day after finding out their ex had a boyfriend. \u201cI was so depressed, so I decided to take the day off. And then the next day I went in the studio, and this song just fell out of nowhere. After we finished writing the song, I was in the studio, and I went on YouTube, and I typed in the lyrics to the song, and the clip came up from <em>Donnie Darko<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sam-smith-to-die-for-acoustic-966856\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Smith has stripped down their latest single \u201cTo Die for\u201d in a new acoustic version. Filmed and recorded live in Los Angeles, the new rendition features Smith accompanied by cello and piano inside a golden recording studio. According to a press statement, Smith intended this version of \u201cTo Die for\u201d to resemble their earliest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 08:09:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}