Since catapulting on to the music scene over a decade in the past, Charlie Puth has launched three studio albums, racked up 4 Grammy nominations and collaborated with Elton John and James Taylor, amongst others.
Nonetheless, the New Jersey-born pop musician says he wasn’t ready for the quantity of consideration he acquired after Taylor Swift name-dropped him on the title monitor of “The Tortured Poets Department,” her newest album, and mentioned he “should be a bigger artist.”
“The Tortured Poets Department” has been perched on the high of the Billboard charts since its launch in April, that means that legions of listeners have since taken notice of Swift’s endorsement and, in flip, sought out Puth’s music.
Practically 4 months later, Puth says Swift’s phrases of encouragement proceed to spice up his confidence, each out and in of the studio. In Might, he dropped a young ballad, “Hero,” which he’d recorded a while in the past however had been hesitant to share with followers.
“I have a fear of being vulnerable sometimes, which is maybe why my music hasn’t hit a certain point in my goal-oriented mind,” Puth advised HuffPost. “I think I’m going to hit that with this next record. There’s an album I’m making right now that I’m approaching in a way that Taylor approaches her music, where it feels like a diary entry with melody. It’s about a lot of things that I’ve felt afraid to sing about.”
Followers could have to attend a bit longer to listen to Puth’s subsequent album, which he says is about “halfway” carried out. Within the meantime, he’s hoping to pay it ahead by partnering with Bic and the Save the Music Basis for a back-to-school “creativity camp” for college kids and academics.
The marketing campaign’s kickoff occasion, held in New York final week, discovered Puth encouraging teams of teenagers and younger adults to strive their hand at writing, beat-making, album cowl design and reside efficiency.
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“I’m very passionate about arts education and what it can do for other areas of your life,” he mentioned. “Everyone makes fun of the band kids, but nobody realizes how important music is. In my scholastic days, I remember math, science and everything else being improved by starting with something artsy, something that utilized the right side of my brain. Yet it’s the last thing to be funded in a lot of schools.”
What would Puth inform aspiring younger artists as of late? “Never feel discouraged,” he mentioned. “Don’t overthink things. You may not write a full song today, but what you do write might be the groundwork for a song written in the future.”
Along with Swift, Puth finds himself impressed by Los Angeles-based musician The Dare, in addition to a variety of feminine pop artists, together with Charli XCX and Chappell Roan.
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“I was listening to The Dare two years ago and I was like, ‘I’ll do anything to work with this guy.’ And now people are just finding out how talented he is,” he mentioned. “I’ve known Charli XCX for a long time, and I have such profound respect for the way she writes music. She’s a proper superstar.”
As to whom he’d most wish to work with on his new album or in any other case, Puth has his eye set on musicians who could not but be family names.
“There’s no dream artist who comes to mind, because what I do is such a dream already,” he mentioned. “Even kids [at the creativity camp] today, you don’t know what they’re going to be doing in two years. They could invent a completely new style of music. I want to collaborate with that.”
Take heed to Charlie Puth’s new single, “Hero,” beneath.
