{"id":2167710,"date":"2025-11-20T01:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167710"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:05:48","slug":"lewis-capaldi-releases-new-ep-called-survive-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lewis-capaldi-releases-new-ep-called-survive-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Capaldi releases new EP called \u2018Survive\u2019 : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-98441\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 3636;&#10;        --source-height: 2424;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3636x2424+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3d%2F27%2F7fbab22b4c81abe6d05d17851d24%2Fap25187767450584.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1025px) 650px, calc(100vw - 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30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Lewis Capaldi performs at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, on June 27, 2025.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>It was a sweltering June afternoon at Glastonbury Festival in 2023 when Lewis Capaldi realized he needed to radically change how he was living his life.<\/p>\n<p>Standing before a massive crowd and singing the song that made him a global star, &#8220;Someone You Loved,&#8221; the Scottish singer-songwriter&#8217;s<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AV3oPRsuAnE&amp;list=PLlJ6mcpK7uj5vz5ZtpqxPd8p9sklNyhit&amp;index=93\" target=\"_blank\"> voice cracked<\/a>. His shoulder twitched \u2014 a symptom of his Tourette syndrome \u2014 and he couldn&#8217;t finish the chorus. The crowd took over, singing the hit back to him as he stepped away from the mic.<\/p>\n<p>Capaldi calls it a &#8220;meltdown.&#8221; But now, he says, it became the moment that ultimately saved him.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I look at it now and I&#8217;m, like, that needed to happen,&#8221; Capaldi told NPR&#8217;s <em>Morning Edition<\/em>. &#8220;I&#8217;d really sort of worked myself into the ground making a second album. The success of the first album had really put the fear of God into me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pressure from fear of being a one-hit wonder to a grueling work schedule to his Tourette diagnosis pushed him into a spiral he didn&#8217;t fully recognize until that moment. Without that Glastonbury incident, he says, he might have kept going &#8220;until the wheels came off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Capaldi disappeared from the spotlight for nearly two years. Now he&#8217;s back, cautiously \u2014 and with new music. His new EP, <em>Survive<\/em>, is just four tracks long, a deliberate choice to avoid the perfectionism and pressure of his second album.<\/p>\n<p>One track, &#8220;The Day That I Die,&#8221; is his favorite, and also the hardest to talk about. Capaldi says he wrote it after struggling to taper off a high dose of sertraline (the generic version of Zoloft), prescribed for anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never really had end-of-life thoughts before,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But coming off sertraline, I found I was having really, really dark days. And much later, thinking about that time when I was writing, I just thought &#8216;what would you say to someone&#8217; \u2014 I guess, a suicide note \u2014 what would I say to people if heaven forbid I succumbed to all dark moments that I was having?&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Capaldi said he still finds that song difficult to discuss, noting that &#8220;everything&#8217;s good now.&#8221; But he pointed to the title track, &#8220;Survive,&#8221; as a better reflection of how he feels today, with lyrics like &#8220;I swear to God I&#8217;ll survive&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna get up and try if it&#8217;s the last thing I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to come back and be like, &#8216;Here&#8217;s a song called The Day That I Die,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;So I wanted to, like, really have a positive flag in the sand, sort of like, we&#8217;re back, and this is how I&#8217;m feeling, and this is how everything is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Capaldi is looking forward to whatever comes next. He hopes he&#8217;ll be able to show more of his funny side that was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/17\/1175218035\/lewis-capaldi-tiny-desk-concert\" target=\"_blank\">clearly evident between tracks <\/a>during his Tiny Desk performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to sort of incorporate that a little bit more and be a bit more adventurous when it comes to songwriting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As he prepares for a U.S. tour in 2026, Capaldi is thinking about how he can finally move beyond being known as &#8220;the ballad guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em> 988 to reach the Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The digital version of this interview was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi, and the radio version was edited by Phil Harrell.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.npr.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Capaldi performs at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, on June 27, 2025. 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