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Hey guys, it's calum scott here.

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Class 95 gets up close

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with calum scott. Hi

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Callum. It's so good to see you. How

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are you? I'm good. So the

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last time you spoke to us was actually with Gene

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back in 2018. And since then we've

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had Covid, I mean, everybody experienced

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the horrible pandemic. What have you been

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up to these last two years during the pandemic?

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How was it for you?

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It was pretty awful. I mean,

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it's the same for everybody, right? We were stripped

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of being able to be with the people we loved,

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couldn't travel, couldn't go into venues.

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So it was pretty rough. I mean, for the first

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couple of weeks of that lock down,

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I just sat in my pants and played Call of

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Duty. I just didn't, I didn't know what to

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do, drinking wine, sat

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on the couch watching netflix and

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all that kind of stuff. I think when everybody started

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to realize actually this is pretty serious. And that's

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when I kind of started to I

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fell out of love with music, to be fair with

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my own music because I just felt that

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there was so many other things going on that were

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much more important than me writing a sad

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song. You know, I lost a lot of inspiration

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and motivation. But I think

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as we start to see some light at the end of the tunnel,

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my producer had been in touch and sent me

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some music and I started working again, reignited

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the Passion. So thankfully I

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finished the album during the pandemic. And

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yeah, releasing it in like literally

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a couple of weeks. It's crazy.

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Yeah, I was scared. Don't

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be scared. We're really psyched to get

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new music from you. Was it difficult sort of

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restarting the whole engine? Did you have to do anything

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to sort of get the creative juices

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flowing? Yeah. Yeah,

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it was one of those ones where it was like, you know,

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like when you've had so much time off school and

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you know, you have to go back and you have that not

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feeling in your stomach, like, I really don't want to go

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back. It was kind of that like, I was just

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like, like I've fallen off the rhythm,

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so now I have to, like try and get myself back

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into that. But music is

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one of the most incredible things of it.

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It's like a universal language, right? So

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I think even though I was getting down on my look,

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music kind of helped bring me back up

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and then me writing music helped

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me motivate other people. So I kind

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of had a ripple effect.

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It's a full circle actually. Yeah,

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yeah, music helps me and then my music

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helps others and so on. And so

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tell us about your new song called Heaven.

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Heaven is such a beautiful

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song. You know, I think as songwriters,

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you're constantly trying to find new ways

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of saying, I love you,

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I hate you. You know, you've

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broken my heart, all those kind of things.

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And I think for me heaven is one of

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those ones where it's just a song about

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loving somebody in the present

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and we're all suckers for it.

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We all, you know, we're all wondering what's happening

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next and what's the next thing and you

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know, worried about the next step. Whereas I think

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heaven reminds people, it's kind

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of bringing that concept of what I have with

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you right now is the most perfect

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thing I'll ever have. And I think

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that it's so beautiful to sort

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of remind yourself to live in the present. So

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loving the present as well. I think it's just

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gorgeous and it has this kind of lush,

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big ballad sound to it without

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it just being piano and vocal because

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I'm a sucker for getting behind

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the piano and just singing a sad song.

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I love it. I love to have

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a good cry. I love to be emotional,

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but heaven is one of those ones where we've put

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some production behind it. It sounds, it just

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sounds very big. So when we've been singing it live

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recently, it's always seems to be going down well

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and people have already messaged me saying, yeah, that's

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the first dance song at my wedding and

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we love it already.

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Yeah, thank you. It seems to be going down

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so well.

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So what is heaven for you then right

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now, since we're talking about the present,

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Heaven for me is

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opening a lovely bottle of red wine for

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me is

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that particular time, is that

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we love them, We love

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them. But you

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know what I think, I mean, I do, but

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I think, you know, at this moment in time

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looking at my touring schedule and just

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being like, I'm getting to go away again

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and getting to perform all these shows again. I mean,

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I'm going to be back in Singapore performing

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a show there again. It's just like all

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the excitement I felt from 2018

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when I was last in Singapore and

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the show there and you know, I was doing promo

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there, it was so incredible to be in a new country

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and for my music to already have planted

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a beautiful seed and a gorgeous flowers

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growing there. And then I got to go and tend

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that flower and be in Singapore.

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So to come back, it's just going to be my heaven

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for

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Sure. So just going back when you last

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year, which is in 2018 when you spoke to gene,

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you said that you wanted to adventure more.

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Did that happen? You also said you wanted to do

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some acting. Did that happen as

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well? No, unfortunately,

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I know I really wanted

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to do some acting. I think that's

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definitely still on my bucket list of things to do.

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I just released the music and the other day

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called Boys in the street, which is this very,

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very emotional song. That was my first

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step into acting because I had to

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act to parts of the story, one

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was a young boy, one was a kind of a

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father figure that was getting down on

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the boy. And so I had to kind of represent

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that visually. So that was quite a nice little step

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into that kind of vibe as for exploring.

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Singapore didn't get to do that either. What

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I've been doing my research though and

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I have seen, I've seen that you guys have

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the Gardens of the Bay.

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Yeah, this is going to be the last stop on the asian tour,

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isn't it? I do believe, hopefully

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you have some

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time. Hopefully I want to come to see the

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Gardens of the Bay. I wanted, I've seen something

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called the Centaurus a giant swing,

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I don't know, there's a giant

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swing,

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Okay. I mean it looks terrifying,

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but it looks it looks gorgeous

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as far as I could see. There's tons of like gardens

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and zoos and lots of like nature

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and stuff, which I'm very

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impressed,

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very small, but we've got a lot of things to do and the offer still

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stands, jean said the last

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time she'll take you around and I will join this time

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around and we'll be a proper good tour

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guides if you have the time. Absolutely.

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Getting back to the music, tell us about what we

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talked about your new song called Heaven, let's talk

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about your new album, which should be coming out soon as well.

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What can we expect Is it going to be in the line in the

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vein of Heaven? It's gonna be something different.

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I think there's gonna be a really nice

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journey with this album, because,

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you know, the first album was very much me being like,

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oh my God, I'm sand, and I get to, like,

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do this album, this is crazy. And like, you

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know, everything was kind of like, like a kid

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at christmas. Yeah, it was just like, oh my God,

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I get to be Business is so exciting.

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And I think when it, when it came to writing the second

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album, it was kind of very much like a

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right, you're an artist now there's

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a new level to it. You know, you're an artist,

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people relied on your songs to get by

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or to become more confident with themselves,

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or, you know, they might have used your music as

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the first dance on a wedding or to celebrate

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somebody's life or whatever it is, sound tracking

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these amazing moments in their life. So now I have a responsibility

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and I took that very seriously and

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it kind of made me grow up a little bit.

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Do you feel the pressure though?

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Yeah, of course, of course. I mean, you

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look at the ridiculous stats at the

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first album and you're like, well no

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pressure. Just

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got to write an album that breaks all those records.

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There was some pressure when I was writing this album, but

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I must admit, the more that I just

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enjoyed writing the second album

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as that kind of stage in my life

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is this is just the next chapter

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for me, the more I started

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really enjoying the process, I must

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admit, I feel more confident on this album.

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I feel like my writing and my vocal ability

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is, is developed. You know, there's a new sense

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of, like, hope and resilience

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within this album. So it's definitely

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don't get me wrong, there's definitely quite a few ballads

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on exactly

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prepared to cry. But you know what, I feel

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like it's an elevated, more evolved

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version of the first album. It's

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very emotional and emotional provoking,

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but then you also have those moments where it's just like,

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okay, yeah, I feel good about this song

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and it makes you feel motivated? So it's

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a journey which I'm always really keen

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to show up my life shows, and all my albums.

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You've always been quite raw when it comes

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to writing your music, you bare your soul.

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But that was also at the beginning where everything

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is very new. Do you feel

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like being in this industry for a couple

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of years already? Do you feel

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like you still bear everything? Everything

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is you're wearing heart, your heart on the sleeve? Or do

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you feel that now maybe some things are

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no go zones when it comes to writing the songs,

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or is it No, it's

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all put it all

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down. You know what I've never

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really known any different. So

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I've only ever like being honest

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and being vulnerable and used my

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life experiences and my personal experiences

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don't get me wrong. There are some songs on this album, one

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of them called Bridges, the title track of the

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album that is very personal.

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I argued with myself whether I should put

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this song on the album and then I realized that

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some of the songs on the album have been such

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tools for people and has been a medicine

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in some ways for people that

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I kind of owe it to my friends and to my audience

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to be honest and vulnerable because

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it's honestly that pays two fold. You know,

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like when I've been honest with my music in the past,

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people will send me messages all the time

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with their own stories and they're

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being personal with me. So I kind of feel

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that it's the only way I know how to do things.

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It's just bear in my heart and soul and

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put my blood sweat and tears into a song, Don't

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get me wrong. All my songs like that

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are a little bit more, you know,

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but we really appreciate it because I think it

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takes a lot of courage and a lot of, a

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lot of courage and bravery to actually put

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your soul out their final question, you're gonna be in

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Singapore to perform for us at the capitol theater.

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What can we expect?

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I mean, it's going to be, there's going to

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be a new sense of appreciation,

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I guess for live music. I mean, we're finally

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back in venue. So it's just going to be

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that magic of being shoulder to shoulder

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with people and me being able to

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see the lights in people's eyes, it's no longer a

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zoom screen is actually people

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in front of me and that magic of

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being at a live show and enjoying

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just forgetting about everything that's going on in the

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world and just being present in that moment in

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that theater is just going to be the best

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brand new music, full albums, worth

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of new music and a new band that I

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love that I've got on so well with

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what I want to do is I just want to bring my live show

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to Singapore, I want to make it

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bigger and better than last time. I want to make

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sure that people walk away from the capitol

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theater and I'm so glad that I

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went to that show, It was worth every penny. You know,

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because that's the kind of show I want to put on,

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I want to make sure that people walk away and go, oh

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my God, that was amazing. And I want to bring

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on some new fans. You know, if

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you've never been to one of my shows before and

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you're thinking about booking tickets, please do. It's going

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to be a lovely night of just love

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and appreciation and enjoyment.

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Whether you're really into the music side

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of things or whether you're into the lyrics

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or whether you just want to sit and cry

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or move and bop along. There's something

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for everybody.

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It's a human connection and we're definitely looking forward

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to that. Looking forward to see you in Singapore. And

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if you're gonna be going around, look us up will definitely

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take you around.

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Yes, it sounds like I'm going to have quite a few tour guides,

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which is not a bad thing.

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Thank you so much. Callum,

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We'll see you soon.

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Thank you.

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Now calum scott will be in Singapore as part

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of the Bridges Asia tour,

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28th of october at capitol theater

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tickets go on sale Wednesday, june

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the 15th at 10 a.m. at

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S G dot book my show

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dot com. And of course look out for Kalam's

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latest album called Bridges Out

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Soon. Hey guys, it's Callum scott

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here. Class 95 gets

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up close with calum scott.