● LEWIS CAPALDI IS EITHER an improbable popstar, or an inevitable one, and where you stand on that depends a lot on your relationship to social media. If the first way you encounter the Scottish singer-songwriter is through his songs — guileless, unguarded ballads delivered in a soulful rasp — then the man himself is probably going to come as a surprise.
Because Capaldi sings like a heartthrob, but he doesn’t look like most people’s idea of one. Including his own: pale, scruffy and overweight, the 26-year-old regularly jokes about his own unattractiveness. “I’ve found in my travels that I am equally repulsive to women halfway around the world as I am to them in my hometown, which is a heart-warming thing,” he told one interviewer.
His image can only…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023