Once he’d performed a few songs at the launch party, Arthur diligently made his way around the room and shook hands with everyone, introducing himself as if we hadn’t just watched him sing.
A cynic (me) might think that was just a very PR-driven way of keeping people sweet, but when I later spoke to him, one-on-one over Zoom, to discuss Bitter Sweet Love, he was exactly the same. Pretty… normal. Friendly. Approachable. Sometimes even (almost) physically weighed down by his own expectations.
It will only take one listen of Arthur’s fifth album to recognise that Arthur has dealt with a lot of emotional grief in his life. But it’s something he will readily admit, as well.
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