CLAPBACK: Lewis Capaldi Slams Taylor Swift Feud as “Complete Fing Bullst”
The alleged backstage tension between two of music’s biggest stars, Lewis Capaldi and Taylor Swift, has just been hit with a wrecking ball. The Scottish singer is absolutely livid about the viral rumor that Swift’s team tried to silence him on The Graham Norton Show to protect the pop queen’s spotlight. His defense of Taylor is aggressive, explicit, and totally unhinged—classic Capaldi.
Appearing on Australia’s Kyle and Jackie O Show, the -year-old was forced to address the chaos that erupted after he and Swift appeared on the UK talk show earlier this year. Swift was there promoting her album The Life of a Showgirl (a clear priority for the show’s producers) while Capaldi performed his single “Something In The Heavens.”
The rumor exploded when Graham Norton asked Capaldi about his own upcoming EP, only for the singer to hesitantly reply, “Uh, yeah, I was told I wasn’t allowed to talk about it.” TikTok immediately went nuclear, with users pointing the finger directly at Swift and her famously protective team.
The TikTok Theory: Taylor Tried to Silence Lewis?
The internet conspiracy theorists—specifically, a woman Capaldi referenced in the interview—speculated that Swift was behind the muzzle. The theory alleged that Swift and her people had ordered Capaldi not to discuss his music to prevent him from “stealing the spotlight from the ‘Opalite’ pop star.”
Capaldi minced zero words in his rebuttal, calling the idea utter garbage. “I’ll use a word here. That’s hogwash,” he snapped, admitting he’d seen the crazy TikTok. “And it’s a woman being like, ‘Taylor did this and she’s evil’ and this and that. And I’m going like, ‘That’s completely made up.’ “
He didn’t stop there. After explaining the mundane, boring truth—that it was his own record label that told him to keep quiet—he brought his language to a scorching level. “But that was complete bullst. I can swear. It was complete fking bullst,” he yelled, putting a permanent, aggressive end to the manufactured feud.
The Real Sabotage: Capaldi’s Own Clueless Label
So, what was the real reason behind the on-air awkwardness? Pure, unadulterated label incompetence. It had nothing to do with Taylor Swift’s global dominance; it was simply a failure to communicate an announcement timeline.
“Basically, my EP hadn’t been announced yet. So, I was told by my label, ‘Don’t tell people before you go on,’ ” Capaldi clarified. He wasn’t being oppressed; he was under a standard industry embargo. “It was like, ‘It’s not been announced yet, so don’t tell people.’ “
The confusion began when host Graham Norton went off-script and mentioned the EP anyway. Capaldi’s hesitant reaction—”Oh, I thought I wasn’t meant to mention it”—was pure, unscripted anxiety about breaking an embargo, not a fear of Taylor Swift. The only thing that tied Swift to the drama was her innocent question of “Who said that?” which the conspiracy theorists warped into a demand for silence.
“The level of unnecessary drama Swifties and haters create is insane. Capaldi is defending Taylor better than her own security team. It was a label mix-up, not a celebrity war! Case closed.” – @MusicInsider_TMZ
The Bieber Ghosting: Lewis Reveals “Anxiously Attached” Status
The interview wasn’t all explosions and profanity. Capaldi also dropped a hilarious update on his long-running “friendship” saga with pop superstar Justin Bieber, confirming that their nascent bromance is officially dead in the water—and it’s all because Bieber ghosted him.
The two previously clicked at a party in Los Angeles, but the connection went cold. Capaldi joked that Bieber only gave him a “Double tapped me. Which is fine. I’m fine with that,” implying the relationship exists only through social media likes, not actual conversation. He then joked about his own desperate yearning for the superstar’s approval.
“I became anxiously attached to Justin Bieber,” he confessed. “Everyone else I’d avoid. But for Justin, I was needy. I needed that.” It’s a sad, funny admission from the chart-topper.
Lewis’s Final Word: A Magical Night and a Lingering Hope
Capaldi knows the score, admitting that if he were Justin Bieber and saw a text from Lewis Capaldi, he’d also only be “double tapping. I’m not responding.” The self-deprecating humor is charming, but you can feel the sting of the rejection.
He concluded the Bieber segment with a bittersweet resignation: “But we’ll always have that magical night together. We’ll always have that moment.” It looks like the only relationship Lewis Capaldi can rely on is his own label’s ability to create chaos.
But while the Bieber friendship is a bust and the Taylor feud is “fing bullst,” the singer successfully diverted the focus from his own music news to this scorching Hollywood drama. The question remains: Now that he’s thrown his entire label under the bus, will his next EP announcement go off without a hitch? Or will his label try to silence him for good?
