Sam Smith Unveils 'Drowning Shadows' His "Saddest Song;" Says He's Never Had a Boyfriend

Sam Smith may be able to sing about heartbreak, but the 23-year-old singer has admitted that he's never had a boyfriend! In addition to making the surprising revelation, Smith unveiled his new single, "Drowning Shadows," on a UK radio show, calling it his "saddest song."

"I've never had a boyfriend so I don't really know any different, which I think is very lucky actually," the penly-gay "Stay With Me" crooner  said to E! on the press tour for the new James Bond film Spectre. "I'm still learning on what's right and what's normal in dates."

Smith is the performer of Spectre's theme, "Writing's On The Wall."

This may come as a surprise to fans of the singer, whose ballads regularly reflect the heartbreak that comes from years of dating experience. It also contradicts previous reports that Smith had a fling with model Jonathan Zeizel.

In other news, Smith released his latest single during an interview Monday (Nov. 2) with Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 radio show. The slow and tragic piano ballad, "Drowning Shadows," will be released as part of the new deluxe edition of his hit debut album, In the Lonely Hour.

"I always loved it, but something didn't happen right with the production when we were going through different versions of it," he said of the song on the show, Rolling Stone reported. "Something didn't work. I thought of it recently when we were thinking about the repackage, and we went in and just did it with piano."

The song ponders the similarities between the loneliness of accompanied isolation in the cold party world of gay life and the solitude of going home alone.

The magazine reports that Smith described the new song as both the saddest and least-radio-friendly he's ever written.

In the Lonely Hour (Drowning Shadows Edition) will be released on iTunes via Capitol Records on Nov. 6.