{"id":15090,"date":"2025-07-23T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15090\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:23:10","slug":"sam-smith-to-be-free-single-announced-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15090\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Smith &#8216;To Be Free&#8217; Single Announced: Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter taking some time out of the spotlight, pop singer <a href=\"https:\/\/billboard.com\/artist\/sam-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Smith<\/a> is ready to take center stage again with a new song. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn Tuesday (July 22), Smith shared that their new single \u201cTo Be Free\u201d will be released on Thursday (July 24) at noon ET. Sharing the single art on their <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMawP2UM6H1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> \u2014 which depicts a moody shot of the Hudson River in New York City \u2014 Smith revealed that they\u2019ve been waiting for half a decade to share the track with their audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI wrote this song with my dear friend Simon Aldred. It\u2019s one vocal and guitar take from start to finish, made complete by the beautiful injection of the incredible choir we\u2019ve been working with across this new project,\u201d they wrote on the post. \u201cTo Be Free was written 5 years ago. It\u2019s more than special to me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe announcement comes days after Smith previously teased fans with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMQNyPSsLTe\/\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMYQhogMVMs\/\" target=\"_blank\">snippets<\/a> of the new song, featuring them singing a gentle R&amp;B melody alongside a gospel choir. \u201cPray your heart be lighter\/ Brave and free like mine,\u201d they shared in a caption of one of the posts, previewing some of the song\u2019s lyrics. \u201cFloating like a feather\/ Hope waits down the line.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cTo Be Free\u201d will be Smith\u2019s second single of 2025, after the singer shared their tender ballad \u201cLove Is a Stillness\u201d on Valentine\u2019s Day. \u201cThis song is such a special song to me and because it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day I wanted to share this with you as a gift to say I love you,\u201d they wrote to their fans at the time of the song\u2019s release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCheck out Smith\u2019s announcement for \u201cTo Be Free\u201d below: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After taking some time out of the spotlight, pop singer Sam Smith is ready to take center stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,9607,136,9057,16726],"class_list":["post-15090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}