Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved

“Someone You Loved” is a song recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. It was released as a download on 8 November 2018 through Vertigo Records and Universal Music as the third single from his second extended play, Breach (2018), and was later included on his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (2019).

There are two music videos to accompany “Someone You Loved”.

The first music video was released on 8 February 2019, starring actor Peter Capaldi, who is Lewis Capaldi’s second cousin once removed. It was directed by filmmaker Phil Beastall. Filming took place in Buxton in late January 2019. The video was made in partnership with charity organisation Live Life Give Life in order to raise awareness for the issue of organ donation. It contains a message of loss and hope, telling a story of a husband who is trying to cope with the death of his wife. She became the heart donor for the young mother of another family, saving her life. Eventually the two families are brought together and the main character knows that his wife’s heart continues to live on.

The official video, featuring the singer was released on 29 August 2019. Here, Capaldi wanders the streets, following his lost love as his friends and strangers try to stop him from chasing after her.

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“Someone You Loved” finds Lewis Capaldi reflecting on both the end of a relationship and family bereavements, in particular his grandmother. The Scottish singer explained to NME that he chose to write open-ended lyrics for this song as he was “bored of talking about myself.” Over the course of making his Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent album, a couple of family members passed away and he “wanted to write a song that could be applicable to both my relationship ending, which I was writing a lot about, and then this bereavement thing.”
It took Capaldi six months to write the song. It started with a recording session he was doing when the chords he was working on inspired another melody. He recorded it onto his phone.

A few months later, Capaldi was sitting at the piano in his back garden shed trying to develop the song idea. He recalled to NME that he was “bashing my head over and over again to get a chorus and a pre-chorus melody.” He eventually came up with a rough demo.

Some time on Capaldi was in the studio with producers TMS, and after they’d completed a couple of songs he told them “I’ve got this other thing.” The production team let him “do a stream-of-consciousness sort of thing” and within a couple of hours they’d completed “Someone You Loved.”

This spent 31 weeks in the Top 10 of the UK singles chart, the most ever for a song by a British act.

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