Lewis Capaldi has a lot of admiration for Matty Healy (Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Lewis Capaldi has a lot of love for The 1975 frontman Matty Healy and we could be seeing the start of a new bromance.
The Pointless hitmaker, whose new single was co-written by megastar Ed Sheeran, has also worked with Matty on another mystery track on his upcoming album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Lewis recalled: ‘I remember when I first started doing writing sessions there in London or whatever. And 1975 are really mysterious, that was the whole thing.
‘They had the big spaced-out letters, et cetera. And everyone was like, you’ve got to be mysterious. Got to be mysterious. Honestly, I absolutely f***ing love Matt Healy.
‘Listen, we wrote together for this album. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before. So I love 1975. I think my favourite band just now. I just love how he is and how they are as a band in terms of the way he is now especially, he doesn’t give a f**k…’
The 25-year-old star heaped praise on Matty for his ‘self-awareness’ as a songwriter and musician, and their songwriting collaboration came up after they connected on Twitter.
The 1975 singer Matty Healy has worked with Lewis for the new album (Picture: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
He explained: ‘I think the amazing thing about him well is that sort of self-awareness is a massive thing. You don’t put simple epicure and philosophy in your song and think why are people calling me pretentious? He knows.
‘He’s incredible. I absolutely love him. And I think that was the thing, he reached out to me on Twitter initially and was like, “Mate you’re class”, more talking about interviews and stuff. And he said, “You make me laugh.”
‘He says, “It’d be good to get together, write some songs and write some funny lyrics”, because obviously he puts out his songs a lot more than I do. He’s hilarious.’
Lewis admitted he’s jealous of the Chocolate singer’s ability to inject more humour into his lyrics.
‘I’m envious of that sort of being able to translate that sort of the humour side of him,’ he said. ‘So basically, he reached out and it was like, “alright cool”. I thought it was just a nice thing they were saying.’
He added: ‘And then three years later I was like let’s f***ing ask, I was feeling myself. So I was like, oh, let’s see if he’s up for it. And he was. And we came down and I went to the studio in London and he was a lovely guy.’
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