Dan Smith Feels Like An Imposter

Bastille’s Dan Smith seems like an ”imposter”.

The ‘Pompeii’ singer is not nervous concerning the group’s experiments with totally different genres on their new album ‘Doom Days’ as a result of he is ”snug” with the place they’re musically, though he nonetheless seems like he leads a ”double life”.

He informed The Sun newspaper: ”We needed to take the listener by means of totally different moods and moments and I believe we’re lastly actually snug with the place we’re at.

”Don’t get me improper, I nonetheless really feel like an imposter and I nonetheless suppose we lead this double life the place we go off on tour, play these exhibits after which go residence and every part is again to regular.

”But we have by no means actually cared about style. It is irrelevant to us and so forth our albums or our combine tapes we have executed every part from pop to hip-hop to guitar music. We do no matter we need to.”

Away from Bastille, Dan has additionally written for the likes of Craig David, Foxes, and Tears For Fears, and was amazed by the success of ‘Happier’, the monitor he penned for Marshmello as a result of he seems like a ”vacationer” when writing mainstream pop tracks.

He stated: ”That expertise with Marshmello and Craig David was so fascinating as a result of we aren’t pure pop and nonetheless really feel like vacationers in that world.

”I wrote that tune with Steve Mac with Justin Bieber in thoughts however despatched it to Marshmello. I’m not the most important EDM fan however I appreciated his manufacturing on his monitor ‘Silence’.

”It was extremely surreal to look at ‘Happier’ fly up the charts in America and all around the world.”

And the frontman nervous he was out of his depth when he was requested to carry out with Pink on the Brit Awards earlier this yr.

He stated: ”I met her at rehearsals.

”I walked in and she or he was hanging from a trapeze with 100 dancers round her. Then I forgot all of the phrases to the tune we have been singing and needed to crawl right into a gap on the ground. But she was so good.

”It was humbling to see somebody so enormous who has had such a tremendous profession and see how variety and considerate she was.”