The singer plays all his new songs to mum Carol and dad Mark to get their opinion before deciding whether to release them. And the 23-year-old said they were not impressed by Someone You Loved – which went on to top the charts in the UK and US and won the Song of the Year gong at at this year’s Brit awards.
Lewis, from Whitburn, West Lothian, said he now knows a song will go down well with the public if his parents don’t like it.
He said: “My mum can’t really hide her disdain for something if she doesn’t like it. I can tell by looking at her face if she doesn’t like it and if it’s good my dad will always go, ‘I have goosebumps’.“But cut back maybe a year-and-a-half ago, and I played them two songs.
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