Lewis Capaldi reveals his parents were NOT fans of his biggest hit 😱
Luckily he didn't listen to them
Last updated 27th Apr 2021
Lewis Capaldi has been unstoppable lately winning two BRIT Awards and having two UK Number 1s, and a Number 1 album, 'Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent', but it could have been VERY different if he had listened to his parents!
Speaking to a US radio station, Lewis told how he played his parents two songs, "My mum can’t really hide her disdain for something if she doesn’t like it. I can tell by looking at her face if she doesn’t like it and if it’s good my dad will always go, ‘I have goosebumps’.
"But cut back maybe a year-and-a-half ago, and I played them two songs. One was a piano ballad and one was a summer song, it was a bit more upbeat," the BRIT-Award winner explained, continuing, "They said, 'The upbeat one is really good, the piano ballad we are not really into’. That piano ballad ended up being 'Someone You Loved'.
"So now every time they tell me a song is bad I’m like, ‘Well, it looks like it’s going to make me a lot of money’."
'Someone You Loved' wasn't just a Number 1 single here in the UK for Lewis, it reached Number 1 in many countries around the world, as well as winning him a BRIT Award and getting him a Song of the Year nomination at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards.
The song was also famous for supposedly being about Love Island star, and ex-girlfriend of the singer, Paige Turley, however, as Lewis picked up Song of the Year at the 2020 BRIT Awards, he shut down the claims, admitting the popular song is actually about his late grandmother.
This latest news comes after Lewis recently revealed in an interview with the Daily Mirror that he would have been a fishmonger if his music didn't take off, despite hating fish! Explaining that his dad Mark has his own fish shop, Lewis said, "My Dad is a fishmonger. He has a fish shop, one that sells fresh fish – KP’s Fresh Fish.
"So I’d probably work there. But I hate fish. I hate the smell of fish and I can’t look at prawns in the face."
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