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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E178: Lewis Capaldi: The Untold Story Of Becoming A Global Superstar At 22

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Capaldi is one of the biggest singers and musicians in the world today whose last album went 4x platinum. His new single is Forget me and it’s out now. Known for his authentic and honest style, Lewis is unlike any poster that’s come before him.


But behind the everyman ‘boy from Glasgow’ persona is a vulnerable side to Lewis. After a 3 year hiatus from music he tells us, for the very first time, he opens up about his struggles with sometimes crippling anxiety, how he ‘hates recording albums’, and the intense pressure he puts himself under that drives everything he does.


This conversation is a hell of a ride. Expect what you thought you knew about Lewis to be turned upside down. But in the process of listening to this conversation with the pop star whose persona is that he has nothing to hide, you’ll see just how much he’s been holding back all this time. 


Topics:

  • Early years 
  • Hypochondria 
  • Panic attacks
  • Being self deprecating
  • Comparing the first album to the new one
  • The pandemic saved my panic attacks
  • Questioning what I’m doing
  • Tourettes 
  • Mental health
  • What would you liked to have been at 16? 
  • How do others get where you are
  • Social media marketing
  • Writing songs
  • Relationships
  • Whats the questions you’e never been asked before?
  • The downside of your passion becoming your profession
  • Other people perception of you
  • Are you confident
  • Your new music
  • Future goals 
  • The last guest question


Lewis:

https://www.instagram.com/lewiscapaldi/


Lewis’ new album:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GNC7GD6oZMSxPGyXy4MNB?autoplay=true


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Transcript

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0:00.0

No one has ever asked me the questions that you've asked me for the...

0:03.0

LASER PUNK!

0:05.0

SPANNING CUTTER US THE PIECE OF WHEN YOU LARGE

0:11.0

Release of new music first time in like three years.

0:14.0

That's tell you I'm shutting myself.

0:15.0

Why?

0:19.0

I remember that video of you doing your...

0:21.0

You found out your net worth.

0:23.0

Oh yeah!

0:24.0

That's ten fucking million quads setting up it somewhere with the fuck is it?

0:26.0

No label would ever tell you that is the strategy to become successful.

0:30.0

You can fully just put a picture of you where tell rapture on your head and these stupid glasses on your top of on a big massive puzzle on the tube.

0:36.0

It's less about being like a polished fucking pop star whatever people see through that shit.

0:42.0

You are living an extraordinarily unhuman life.

0:46.0

What is the reality?

0:47.0

I have really bad anxiety.

0:49.0

I never reach the tipping point until after getting famous.

0:53.0

I fucking hate recording albums.

0:55.0

It spies doing music videos.

0:57.0

I only do all that stuff because playing live is this fucking unpowerful thing that you can compete with anything else.

1:03.0

So like when that was making me feel shame, if it's like fuck I don't know if I can do any of this shit anymore.

1:10.0

My dad gave me a lift home from the airport one night and I was twitching like fuck to the point where he started crying in the car.

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