“Talentless sick individual”: Sam Smith’s I’m Not Here To Make Friends’ raunchy music video sparks debate online
Samuel Coleman
Published Jan 31, 2026
English vocalist Sam Smith’s new music video for their most recent melody, Haven’t arrived To Make Companions, ignited shock online when it debuted on YouTube, with many individuals actually proceeding to condemn the artist for its unequivocal nature. While one gathering dissed Simth for purportedly advancing foulness, one more gathering came to guard them.
Smith’s eagerly awaited collection, Gloria, emerged on January 27, 2023. Its beforehand delivered single, Unholy, got basic praise and far and wide web-based ubiquity last year when it was delivered.
Nonetheless, Haven’t arrived To Make Companions for the most part stood out as truly newsworthy after its music video, from certain perspectives, exhibited an unequivocal presentation of s*xualized content.
Netizens composed that the music video ought to have atleast an age limitation for getting to it on stages like YouTube, as kids could coincidentally find it and get affected in a bad way.
One client on Twitter composed with a tone of joke that certain individuals hailed Sam Smith as a good example, which is staggering, further considering the English vocalist a “useless debilitated person” and blaming them for benefitting from a “distorted disorder” that they accepted was winning in the West.
Sam Smith’s Haven’t arrived To Make Companions’ music video mixes fatphobia and queerphobia banters among netizens
In the said video, Smith should be visible showing up in a chopper at a palace, clad in a lavish splendid pink unsettled tulle outfit, prior to moving close by a few different entertainers wearing undergarments, n*pple tufts, and suspenders.
In one specific scene, string wellsprings of water should be visible getting showered into the artist’s mouth, which appears to have maddened netizens more, given its scurrilous signal.
In the video’s different scenes, the artists should be visible provocatively in bed while wearing just dark cowhide clothing, which further annoyed numerous as they rushed to hammer Smith for making foul content.
Numerous who slammed the vocalist highlighted their orientation personality and direction, to the degree of declining to address them with their favored pronouns in a manner to irritate Smith. Look at a couple of these responses on Twitter:
In any case, numerous other netizens got down on the glaring negligence and disregard flung at Sam Smith for putting themselves out there the manner in which they normally do. Some were frustrated to see individuals inside the LGBTQA+ people group offending the vocalist in light of their feminine appearance.
Smith’s self-perception was additionally hauled into the scene, which was subsequently gotten down on by their allies as ‘fatphobia’. They censured the lip service where individuals cheered Harry Styles for breaking orientation standards while embarrassing Smith, a genuine eccentric individual, for self-articulation.
Columnist Alex Phillips tended to Sam Smith’s new music video and remarked that it was undesirable for society, adding that the video was comparable to bad-to-the-bone p*rnographic content in specific pieces of it.
Phillips further expressed that the video should be controlled a ton to have the option to air it on TV. The columnist proceeded to call attention to how they are residing during a time where p*rnography is standardized in mainstream society.
Phillips was inquired as to whether she would disapprove of Madonna doing likewise in a music video rather than Smith, and she answered with:
“Indeed, obviously. To me there’s no need to focus on how Sam Smith dresses or their pronouns. I truly couldn’t care less about that. At the pinnacle of the English domain, men were strolling around in monster hairpieces with magnificence spots. That doesn’t irritate me.”
She referenced that the plain s*xualization and the sado-masochism viewpoint would be viewed as by the standard audience as express grown-up content. In any case, radio moderator Shivani Dave safeguarded Sam Smith, guaranteeing that vocalists like Madonna and Britney Lances could not have possibly gotten this much analysis in the event that they had delivered a comparable music video.
Tending to the case that the I’m By all accounts not the only One artist was numb to make such s*xually inciting content, Dave said that their music video was not to fault for the s*xual attacks occurring in schools. The radio moderator further focused on the way that “craftsmen like Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, and numerous others have done this previously.”
Dave presumed that they think the distinction here is that Sam Smith was allocated male upon entering the world, and individuals are “not used to seeing other people who are appointed male upon entering the world, moving around wearing girdles and l*ngerie,” and that’s what things like.