[laughing]

[soft music]

- [Woman] I'm gonna ask you a bit

about your friendship with Lewis.

- Aw, how long have you got?

- Who?

[laughing]

- We met on social media, I slid into his DMs,

my cousin showed me his music online

when he had very small amount of views on a Vevo video.

- I was already established as an artist,

I was already, you know, smashing it in the charts,

tickets were flying out, off the shelves.

- It's because of me that he's so famous.

- He said to me, "Lewis, you, I'm kinda releasing this

"new album at the minute, you know I'm struggling

"to kinda fins my own feet as a solo artist,

"and obviously you seem to be doing such a good job."

- I just wrote to him and said, love your voice,

think you're funny, do you wanna get married?

And no, do you wanna come and play a show with me?

- You're the best solo artist in the world

and I was like, that's crazy, that's crazy talk.

- And he came to Glasgow, where he's from

and the rest is history.

First time I met him, I just thought he was a lunatic,

it was Saint Patrick's Day, we'd a few beers.

- And yeah that was it, he was, yeah, lovely chap,

a lot smaller than I'd anticipated,

a lot smaller in real life.

- We got very drunk and then we both played a show

the next day, which was fun.

- A good kid with a kind heart, that's what I thought,

this kid's got something.

- Well he's definitely more famous now.

And he's starting to change now that he's had a hit.

- Ever since then, there's my wing, he's under it.

- He's got the biggest song in the world right now

and he knows it, he claims that he's all humble and that

but he's not, he's lost the plot.

- I've just really been showing him

the ropes in the industry.

- We usually bond over heavy, copious amounts of alcohol.

- Right now when we're both in our 20s,

that's a very nice thing to say,

oh we both love a drink and everyone goes.

[laughing]

Look at these crazy scamps.

When we get into our 40s and 50s, and we say,

oh we bond over alcohol, that becomes quite sad.

- I guess we're in, supposedly into

the same type of sad music.

- We both love, and him a bit more than me,

him a bit more than me, we both love my music.

We always land on the same things, you know,

my voice, my lyrics are so good, but, that's what he says.

- He's very funny to be around, he makes me feel funnier,

even though I'm not that funny at all.

Hangs around with me, maybe it's 'cause I'm famous.

And he's just big into famous things these days.

- All joking aside, I'm a big fan of his

and have been for a long time.

- I love this guy, he's the funniest person I know,

and I'm so proud of him.

- Before any of my music was doing fuck all,

he's one of the first people to reach out

and say they love my music and it meant a lot to me.

- That little boy from Scotland,

taking over the planet with the biggest song in the world.

I love the guy.

[soft music]

- Don't look at it.

- What. - Don't look.

- I just wanna know how funny you're being.

- I'm not being funny at all.

- Yeah you fucking are.

[laughing]

He's writing them massive.

- I'm writing them in big letters of course.

- This is like Countdown, isn't it?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[singing]

- He paid me to be his friend.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh fucking,

if anyone's paying anybody for anything,

[laughing]

you're giving me some fucking money.

♪ Counting the money ♪

[laughing]

- I love the hair on your chest

because it kinda, it's like tussled, dead nice.

[laughing]

- Okay, I think you're the funniest person I've ever met.

- Aw, we that's very nice to say.

- For a man of the tender age of, now 23.

- 23. - Was his birthday yesterday!

- Birthday yesterday guys.

- Yeah, yeah, everyone say happy birthday.

- [All] Happy birthday.

- Thank you very much yes, it was a day late,

so you're all bastards.

- Funniest Instagram on the planet.

I think--

- What's the handle Niall?

- @LewisCapaldi. - @LewisCapaldi.

I think you're, you could have been a stand-up comedian

in a previous life. - Oh thank you.

- Or in a future one, if music failed.

- Oh it's a fickle business, isn't it?

- Yeah it is, you could be on to the next one.

- We can't all have that long storied career like yourself.

- Thanks, the tender nine years.

- This is a, this one's serious.

- Oh really, okay.

- This is a great compliment, you smell terrific.

You're the best smelling man I've ever sniffed in my life

and listen, I've sniffed men up and down the globe.

Although I haven't smelled like Jake Gyllenhaal,

who I'm-- - Apparently he smells

like shit. - Oh really?

- Yeah. - Oh okay.

We're sending for him then.

- It does worry me how much you like the smell of me.

- No, no, no, no, nah.

- I have, someone took pictures of us at Christmas

when we were having a drink, when you played that show.

- Yeah, have I got real close. - And you just have

your head, your nose in my hair.

- Well I sniffed your head and I said, you smell terrific

and you said, tweet that.

[laughing]

So listen, that's the truth. - What did you do?

- I smelled your head-- - How could you be

smelling someone's head sitting down?

- I came up and I sniffed your dome right,

I sniffed your dome.

- I think you're a stunning song writer,

all of the songs that you've written,

including ones we've written together,

"Someone You Loved" is one of the best songs there is.

The world is craving out for songwriters like yourself.

- Alright thank you. - So, love you.

- Well you've, that, you've kinda stole my last one.

- By the way, you can use that one on me.

- I've just, well I've wrote out.

- 'Cause I've got a single out now as well.

- I've got, "Nice To Meet Ya",

I've got, I love your music written here,

d'you see that, I'm not even bullshitting you.

- Love your music, he's written it.

- I writ I love your music, I think,

and I'm talking solo, group, for me, personally,

"Flicker" is the best song, and I've never anyone this,

I've never told you this, I've got a song

where I just completely stole the chorus.

- From "Flicker"?

- Yeah.

[laughing]

Not, it's not released, so don't try and fucking sue me.

[laughing]

But yeah, 'cause it's, but it's incredible,

the whole first album.

- I remember when I was on stage that time

at my gig playing it on my own in LA

and I looked down into the pit

and Lewis was doing this to me.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was me, a bunch of young ladies

the usual, aye. - Yeah, all the birds

you brought to the show. - The usual.

[laughing]

And I was, I was hammered.

[laughing]

I was hammered but I was having a great time.

[soft music]

Let's do it.

Oh he smells great.

- You smell good too.

- Thank you, cheers.

- I like your clothes you're wearing.

♪ I like the way you talk ♪

♪ I like the things you wear ♪

♪ I want your number tattooed on my arm in ink, I swear ♪

♪ I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved ♪

- You've got quite a muscular back.

- I reckon we'll be here in a half an hour, if you let us.

- These are quite nice clothes you've got on.

Thank you, you too. - They've got

a nice thread count.

- Yeah, d'you like it? - Yeah, this is new.

- This is the longest I've ever held ya and I really like it

- I feel, there's definitely heat happening,

I'm kinda leaning in like this,

like we're trying not to touch.

[laughing]

- [Woman] Alright.

- Is that good?

- [Woman] If you want, you can let go.

- What?

- [Woman] Tell me how the hug is for you.

- It started off it was so lovely,

now I'm starting to sweat quite a bit.

And I can feel the heat, I can feel the heat of us.

- My face is, you could peel each other off each other.

- D'you know what's mad though right,

see when you think about how people would,

there's people on this Earth who would fucking kill me

to do, to do this to Niall Horan.

- Yeah.

- Like people, don't say yeah, don't agree to that

you fucking pompous bastard.

- This is gonna be the worst I've ever, ah.

[laughing]

I just felt like we were getting closer and closer

the longer the seconds went on.

- The longer the seconds went on, and the more

we sweated on one another, - Yeah.

- I was like this is great.

- The friction between the two of our faces

was something to behold. - It was palpable.

- Lilly Collins' and Zac Efron's one was exactly like this.

- Who?

[soft music]

[upbeat music]

Oh it's good that the speakers are quite loud, eh?

Oh fuck that's a little bit low for me Niall.

What are you doing?

- This is us going around the world.

- Oh fuck, ah.

The microphone sellotape's just come off my chest hair.

The microphone's, stop!

Is this from fucking?

- "Single Ladies". - Yeah.

[laughing]

Your turn.

- Is this me now?

[laughing]

I like to, I like to dance like, this is how

all back-up dancers dance right, watch, follow me.

Do you know what I mean? - Yeah, yeah.

- And they go like that.

My microphone's off again.

Giddy up, giddy up.

Giddy up. - Go on, come on.

- My legs are so sore.

[laughing]

I'm not built for this.

Wait wait, okay.

Wait, wait, I'm just gonna have a room.

[laughing]

Give me your hand.

- What the fuck just happened?

- Welcome to the world of being a fucking serious musician.

[laughing]

[singing]

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

- You singing like you're in fucking church.