1 hits series over the past half-decade, the ’10s has not exactly been a boom decade for traditional balladry on the U.S. (Although, bonus points to Capaldi this week for renaming his Twitter username “America’s Sweetheart” and tweeting a hilarious photo of himself with stars-and-stripes makeup.) As for Capaldi’s song itself, as I have chronicled in this Slate No. top spot in more than five years.īut devoted Whovians are thinner on the ground in America than they are in Britain, and Lewis Capaldi’s social profile is not exceptional here compared with, say, Lizzo’s or Cardi B’s. In all, “Someone” has reached the top five or top 10 in more than 20 countries-including, finally, America: “Someone” tops the Billboard Hot 100 after a 24-week chart run, the slowest rise to the U.S. And speaking of improbable, this week, the unassuming, dough-faced, and bed-headed Capaldi completes a yearlong conquest of the world’s charts with his ardent, voice-cracking ballad “ Someone You Loved.” Since it arrived late last year, “Someone” has reached the top spot in not only Capaldi’s native Scotland and the United Kingdom but everywhere from Malaysia to the Czech Republic. A charming media profile never hurts in the age of social media, and like Adele, Capaldi presents an improbable combination of heart-rending music and expletive-laden stemwinders. Adkins, but also a logorrheic Scotsman named Lewis Capaldi. In that last sentence, I am describing not only the famously hilarious, foulmouthed Ms. Surely you’re cooking something up for before Christmas? You might wanna get on that, because, just FYI, the whole world is apparently jonesing hard for some piano-based melodrama sung by a heartbroken torch singer with a wicked sense of humor. Memo to Adele: You … are recording a new album, right? It’s been about four years now.
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