Smith said to the Mirror: “I do love fishing. I’d love to be a fisherperson.”
Jones asked the singer if they meant something like a ‘fly fisherman,’ to which they replied: “I’d be any type of fisherperson. One day, I’d just like to spend my time fishing.”
At the Grammys, a reporter from the Associated Press mistakenly used male pronouns when discussing Smith’s evolving style.
The reporter stated in The Independent: “Sam Smith has stirred quite a bit of controversy with his outfits over the past year. I admire how he’s constantly pushing boundaries and evolving beyond the ballad-era Sam Smith we once knew.”
“He’s still performing those ballads, but he’s fully embracing pop music now. We can see this shift not just in his music but also in his style.”
On the daytime TV show This Morning, Bob Geldof misgendered Sam Smith during a live segment. The program’s presenters faced criticism for not issuing a correction.
Pink News reports that Geldof repeatedly used he/him pronouns when referring to the artist.
In a radio interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s New Music Daily, Smith discussed the challenges of being misgendered.
They stated (according to People): “What’s hard is people changing their vocabulary; that’s very, very difficult. It takes time. Everyone messes up. I’m going to be misgendered for the rest of my life.”
“This is going to take a long, long time for people to stop using gendered language in their vocabulary.”
In a discussion with the Australian outlet The Project, Smith elaborated: “It’s like, ‘It’s okay, but it is important’ – you know?”
