Sam Smith recently revealed a secret trick to his vocal performance on “Writing’s on the Wall,” the theme song to new James Bond film Spectre. “It’s just so high. I have to grab my balls,” he said on The Graham Norton show on Friday night.
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Smith appeared on the show with the film’s stars to perform “Writing’s on the Wall” live for the first time and he wasn’t totally excited about it.
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“I’m dreading it, i’m absolutely dreading it,” he told Norton before the performance. “I’ve only sang the song once really. I did the demo in the studio, and they used that. It is horrible to sing. Horrible. I regret — no, I don’t regret it… It’s just so high. I have to grab my balls, it’s awful.”
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Smith didn’t actually have to grab his crotch to sing “Writing’s on the Wall” live, of course. But even if he didn’t have to alter his — ahem — posture, he did say, however, that he had to alter his writing style a bit to fit the Bond character. He told Norton that was “because lyrically i’m quite a vulnerable writer, I am quite an emotional writer and James Bond is quite a strong character.”
Watch the interview here, followed by the performance below: