When we reported last year that Calvin Harris's laptop - which supposedly contained seven months' of musical work for his next album - had been lost by Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 baggage handlers, we had to marvel at his stupidity.
Seriously - who checks in a computer containing previous data when they know that it's not backed up?
Well, it turns out that Harris wasn't as stupid as we thought - just a little devious. In an interview with Popjustice, he's revealed that the whole 'lost laptop' story was cooked up in order to buy himself some time.
"The first tactic of delaying the album was pretending that I lost it at Heathrow, he says. "That [story] was concocted between me and my sound engineer, Jimmy."
As Calvin explains, the whole episode wasn't a total fabrication, though: "I should make it clear that they did in fact lose our bags - that is fact - but it was not true that the album was in them.
"I would never check a hard drive in luggage. So the thing about Heathrow wasn't so much a lie, as… well… an untruth."
Ah, of course: not a lie, an untruth. Harris can take comfort in the knowledge that, should his second album bomb (if it ever appears, that is), a career in politics surely awaits.
