Tom Grennan’s new album is not so much a break-up collection as an apology to his ex-girlfriend… but he fears it will fall on deaf ears.
The singer-songwriter — who shot up the charts in 2018 with his debut album Lighting Matches — says his love life was derailed by his ego and a taste for alcohol.
Tom’s second album, Evering Road, is a desperate appeal for forgiveness.
‘The whole album is about how I came to the realisation that I was the toxic one in the relationship,’ he told Guilty Pleasures. ‘I was drinking and going out, which then polluted me with ego and polluted me with becoming self-centred.
‘I put loads of pressure on her, which was unneeded, and this whole album is about that and how I’m sorry. I am thankful for her and for having her in my life.’
Tonight Tom, 25, will be playing a virtual gig at London’s Brixton Academy, where fans tuning in online will be able to hear tracks from the new album while watching him through VR headsets.
‘The album is named after the street we lived on,’ he said. ‘It was the hub of love and the hub of heartbreak. It is where I grew up.
‘The album is all about love, heartbreak and redemption and trying to grow into a better man and trying not to be a p****. And realising I was a p**** at that time.’
With an entire album apologising on his behalf, will his wronged ex-girlfriend take Tom back?
‘No, probably not, mate. Unfortunately,’ he admitted. ‘But it’s all good. I’m in the best place I’ve ever been now. And that’s why it’s also a thank-you to her.’
Evering Road is out in March. Buy tickets to Tom’s virtual gig via universe.com.
More guilty pleasures…
Jorja has to be honest… she’s in love
Jorja Smith fell in love during lockdown… with herself.
Despite the 23-year-old Brit winner naming her new single Come Over, it is unlikely any guys will be getting an invitation.
Jorja says there is no room for a fella in her life as she works on her relationship with herself. The Be Honest singer explained to Guilty Pleasures: ‘I’ve said time and time again, in my songs and to my friends — how can someone love you if you don’t love yourself? I’m really starting to love the woman I am becoming.’
Jorja’s self-imposed TLC follows previous links to Drake, a romance with Joel Compass and a denial of anything going on between her and Stormzy.
She has channelled her frustrations about relationships into Come Over, recorded in Jamaica and featuring Popcaan.
She says it’s about ‘that unsure feeling when you’re talking to someone and you can’t tell how much they’re into you and you’re chasing them when — really — it can be straight up and no-one should be playing games’.
For now Jorja is loving her own company, adding: ‘This period has affected so many people’s lives so negatively and I feel fortunate to be able to stay home and stay safe.
‘I’ve tried to find a positive from the isolation. I’ve enjoyed being at home and re-focusing on what truly matters.’
Not just underwear… this is S&M underwear
Cara Delevingne must have attracted Halsey’s attention as she wore leather boots and wrapped herself in chains for RiRi’s undies fashion show last night.
It was recently claimed that Cara and Halsey, 26, were hanging out after their exes Ashley Benson and G-Eazy shacked up.Cara, 28, unveiled her fashion brief from the S&M singer — who wore black gauntlets and leather suspenders — in a pre-teaser.
RiRi, 32, also drafted in Lizzo, Paris Hilton and Irina Shayk for her Savage X Fenty spectacular, available on Amazon Prime Video.
‘We always want to include women who haven’t felt sexy by society’s terms and expectations,’ she said. ‘We want them to feel like this is their safe space, that we get it.’
Newly confident Mabel is happy to clash her checks
Check out her confidence now! Mabel admits that once upon a time she would never have had the nerve to pull off this striking ensemble.
The Don’t Call Me Up singer says she has come a long way since those days, including being named best female at the Brits this year.
‘When I was younger, I always felt like maybe if I have a boyfriend, or if I dyed my hair this colour, or if I had a No.1 album, then the anxiety would go away, but it’s who I am and I actually love that,’ she explained.
‘I had the misconception that confidence was becoming the person that I wanted to be and I know now that confidence is actually being 100 per cent okay with who you really are.’
The 24-year-old, whose parents are singer Neneh Cherry and Cameron McVey, who has worked with Massive Attack is also chilled about racial identity.
‘My racial identity very much lives with being mixed race and having a black mother,’ Mabel told GQ magazine.
‘It’s more important to speak out on issues, regardless of your race or gender, if there’s injustice.’
Read the full feature in November’s GQ, out today.
Life couldn’t be sweeter for Senorita…
Camila Cabello sounds as close as ever to Shawn Mendes following rumours that the pair had fallen victim to the lockdown break-up jinx.
Speculation of a split started in August, with the couple said to be ‘on a break’, few sightings and talk of needing ‘a little space to grow individually’.
But when Shawn, 22, announced his fourth studio album, his Cuban lover Camila swiftly signalled she is still his No.1 fan.
He said on his Gram: ‘I wrote an album. It’s called Wonder. It really feels like a piece of me has been written down on paper and recorded into song.’
His Senorita duet pal Camila, 23, chipped in: ‘My love, I’m so proud of the person you are and I’m so excited for people to see and hear your heart.’
Grammar test as Hannah fights ‘primitive’ prejudice
London Grammar’s Hannah Reid has revealed the trio’s third album contains some tough talk for misogynists.
The Hey Now singer said she was left feeling inferior following the success of the group’s first two albums, despite being the frontwoman.
‘Misogyny is primitive, which is why it is so hard to change,’ said Hannah, unveiling London Grammar’s third album, Californian Soil.
‘But it is also fearful. It’s about rejecting the thing in yourself which is vulnerable or feminine. Yet everybody has that thing. This record is about gaining possession of my own life.
‘You imagine success will be amazing. Then you see it from the inside and ask, “Why am I not controlling this thing? Why am I not allowed to be in control of it? And does that connect, in any way to being a woman? If so, how can I do that differently?”’
Fans must wait until February to hear the finished album but the Hollywood-shot video for the single, also called Californian Soil, drops today.
Another Child(ish) for Donald… but he’s thinking of a vasectomy
Donald Glover is thinking about getting the snip after his partner gave birth to their third son during the pandemic.
The actor and singer — aka Childish Gambino — might adopt instead, to fulfil his dream of having a baby girl.
The This Is America singer confessed: ‘I’m like, “Maybe I should just get a vasectomy and freeze those assets”.’
Donald, 37, said he and his girlfriend, Michelle White, had been talking about adoption ‘because we have three boys, so I’m like, “Oh, it might be nice to get a girl in there”.’
After calling their first two sons Legend and Drake, the new arrival has been named Donald, after the Lion King star’s father Donald McKinley Glover Sr.
Another chance for Ella to relive her favourite clubbing tracks
Ella Henderson is taking fans on a clubbing nostalgia trip after snaring dance music icon Roger Sanchez for her new single, Dream On Me.
The track samples Roger’s 2001 track Another Chance — a song Ella, 24, remembers dancing to when she was five years old.
‘I loved that song. It was an era of them kind of records that have space for big vocalists,’ she told Guilty Pleasures. ‘I remember the video of that person on the Tube with a massive heart!’
Ella admits inviting Roger to work with her was slightly daunting.
‘My favourite producer, Jordan Riley, stripped the song apart and sampled a bit of it.I wrote it and thought, “I need to get this signed off by Roger”.
‘He could have been so massively insulted we would even touch Another Chance! Thank God he was like, “I love it!”’
He’s going Oll out to perform
Olly Murs insists he’ll be back on stage next year come rain, shine… or pandemic.
The Wrapped Up singer is due to begin a 25-date outdoor venue tour of the UK in June. The cheeky pop star is slated to play the Royal London Hospital twice.
McFly aim for Dumb-er one
McFly have come into land with a new single, Tonight Is The Night, from their upcoming album Young Dumb Thrills.
Drummer Harry Judd said the new album has ‘great harmonies’, plus echoes of their 2006 album Motion In The Ocean.
The old Boyz on the Block…
This’90s nostalgia trip is, er, Another Level.
Members of Boyzone, 5ive, Another Level and Phats & Small have announced their first single as man band supergroup Boyz On Block.
They have recorded a cover of K-Ci & JoJo’s 1998 track All My Life.
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