Lewis Capaldi has met plenty of famous people over the years and become friendly with a few of them. But in a chat with Capital Breakfast’s Chris Stark on Friday (Aug. 15), the “Someone You Loved” singer revealed that when he met Justin Bieber at a “swanky” Los Angeles party thrown by Kylie Jenner (he thinks) a while back he was pretty sure the JB had no idea who he was.
“And Bieber comes over to me and he’s like, ‘Hey man what’s going on?’ And I’m like ‘you don’t know who I am, ‘you don’t know my name,’” Capaldi recalled telling him. “And he’s like, ‘of course I do it’s Lewis Capaldi’ and me and Bieber have this super night, this really lovely evening together — we didn’t spend the night together, but we hang out — and me and the Biebs are going to be best pals, this is huge.”
Confident that they were now besties, Capaldi said he was further shocked when Bieber said, “‘make sure I get your number tomorrow’ and I was like, ‘me and the Biebs this is huge!’” So, Capaldi dutifully texted Bieber a “sucking up his a–” message the next day: “‘just wanted to jump on Bro, and say last night was so special, great guy, so nice to hang with you, such a dude’ all this stuff,” he revealed.
Here’s the thing.
According to Capaldi, Bieber liked the message, but then never replied. “So if you’re out there Bieber, text me back!,” Capaldi said, admitting, “Bieber aired me.”
Capaldi also uncovered the true story behind the legendary “lost” song he recorded with Calvin Harris several years ago that has never been released. While Harris had hinted in interviews that it may have gotten accidentally erased from Capaldi’s hard drive, Lewis said the real story is pretty simple: he didn’t like how he sounded.
“Me and Calvin have done a song together, he was in Ibiza the same time as me. I went and recorded a version of it,” Capaldi said of the unnamed track. “He sent it to me afterwards. I avoid any conflict, avoid letting people down, I’m a people pleaser. I try and please people… This is the thing, I don’t like the song. I don’t like my version of the song, I should say.”
Capaldi said he shared the track with some friends and they agreed with his assessment, but Lewis never reached out to Harris to tell him his feelings about the song. “He then messages me two months later like, ‘hate it?’ And I grew up idolizing Calvin Harris, and to tell him I don’t like his song so I just ignored that as well,” Capaldi said. “And to this day haven’t replied to him, I have seen him since, and I’d love to do a Calvin Harris song, but he has to sing on it as well.”
Check out Capaldi’s interview below (Bieber talk begins at 8:20 mark).
