


He stepped out of the room and when he came back I had most of the song.

And so, I was working with a guy in America and he started playing piano and ‘No Matter What’ had started to plant a seed in my head.Īnd the way that the music sat and the way that I was feeling, it just all fell into place. I’ve fallen in love with straight guys, it’s a pattern.īut one of the things that I hadn’t written about was my coming out story. And on that journey, I had written ‘If Our Love Is Wrong’, which is about how I came out to the press, ‘Hotel Room’, which is about when I fell in love with a guy who didn’t love me back. I’ve explained how ‘No Matter What’ is the personal song I’ve ever written and for me when I was writing the album, the album was never really the focus. Why was now the right time to release the song? ‘No Matter What’, it’s a fantastic song and inspired by your own coming out experiences. In an exclusive interview with Attitude, Scott – who turned 30 this year – opens up about what the song means to him, how his international fame has hindered his dating and whether he has reached out to Sam Smith following his split with Brandon Flynn this year. Now Scott is set to release a special edition of his album this Friday (November 30), featuring four new songs, including the moving LGBT anthem ‘No Matter What’. The charming singer from Hull shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent where he got Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer and since then he has gone on to achieve internatonal success and his debut album, ‘Only Human’, is the biggest selling debut by a British Solo Male this year.

The ‘troublemaking gay’ on a mission to make healthcare more inclusiveĬalum Scott is one of the nicest and most humble artists out there and ahead of the release of his special edition album, I had pleasure to sit down with him and chat about all things LGBT.Raye at Glastonbury review: ‘A survivor ascends’.
