Mary J Blige wants to be like Sam Smith.
The singer has previously collaborated with Sam and has admitted she wishes she was more like the 22-year-old.
She told Glamour magazine: “Sam is just unlike a lot of new artists. He has so much humility, he’s so grateful and he’s still so taken back from all of this, but at the same time he’s very confident and decisive. I’ve watched him be so decisive and I love that about him – I’m like, ‘I wanna be like that’.”
Sam was equally full of praise for his collaborator and said he initially wanted to keep a track he wrote, Therapy, for himself but gave it to Mary because she “fell in love” with it. He said: “The song Therapy, which she sang at the AMAs, I wrote for my record. But then she heard it and fell in love with it and she sang it.”
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