Lewis Capaldi: `They´re screaming America´s sweetheart at me. It´s wild´
(The Guardian Culture News)

He sounds like Joe Cocker, swears like a trooper and has David Hasselhoff beating down his door. How did Lewis Capaldi become a global superstar? `I´ve got no clue,´ he says on tour in ChicagoThe last time Lewis Capaldi visited Times Square in New York, he was confronted by his own face: a poster for Spotify stretching the height of a building. It featured him wearing a selection from his apparently inexhaustible collection of idiotic-looking sunglasses: a white-framed women´s pair, not unlike the ones Kurt Cobain took to wearing near the end of his life. He looked at least a little more like a rock star than he usually does in promotional photos. A British poster campaign features what is supposed to be his Tinder profile: a photo of Capaldi grinning gormlessly, his hair wrapped in a towel. He is flashing a peace sign and the caption reads: `Otherwise known as the Scottish Beyoncé.`Of course, he took a photo of the Times Square poster and stuck it on Instagram and Facebook. In a perfect example of Capaldi´s approach to social media, he listed his location as `GENERAL ERECTION` and counselled `nyc pls don´t trip over yr boners xox`. The thing is, he asks, as he demolishes a burger in a Chicago restaurant, how else are you supposed to react? These ridiculous things keep happening to him. Continue reading...