- 2022-10-08
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Charlie Puth Releases New Album “CHARLIE”: Streaming
American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth released his third studio album “CHARLIE” along with a new music video for "Loser" on October 7, 2022.
It is his first project in four years since the 2018 album “Voicenotes”.
The album comprises 12-track, featuring guest appearance from South Korean boy band BTS' Jungkook. Produced by Charlie Puth.
Basically, the album is a breakup album, with lyrics that speak to loneliness and regret.
“These thoughts spin in my head like a dishwasher,” Charlie Puth told Apple Music. “I put them against a beat, add some melody, and when the song is finished, it's like putting a letter in a glass bottle and sending it off into the ocean.”
He continued, “But it was important for me to get all this wording out on this album.”
Charlie Puth had posted each song making process his social media until releasing the album.
He said, “I'm gonna call it Charlie, 'cause I never had the chance – it's like a self-titled album but I never had a chance to put out music that is like truly me, and every song is just like my personality with some melody attached to it. This album was born on the internet, and I've had so much fun making it in front of all of you this past year.”- 3uXFaNf0N2Y
Charlie Puth explained track-by-track for the album via Apple Music.
“That's Hilarious”
“All of these songs come with combining an ugly and a beautiful thing together. In this song, I wanted the lyrics to be ugly and beautiful at the same time, just like I wanted the sound to be ugly and beautiful as well. It starts with pretty chords, then the pre-chorus lyric comes in: 'You took away a year of my fucking life.' That's not exactly subtle. Almost at the minute mark, there's a really low sine-wave bass that I ran through this Mike Dean plug-in that made it sound super distorted. That is representative of what was the most turbulent time in my life, where I was most uncomfortable.”
“Charlie Be Quiet!”
“I came up with that heavily syncopated, verselike melody as the chorus while going on a walk. I was listening to 'The Whisper Song,' produced by Mr. Collipark for the Ying Yang Twins. I thought, 'Why has no one made a song where someone's whispering?' Then, in the second half of the chorus, you have the illusion of it getting louder for the listener, but it's actually all mastered to the same level. You just jumped the octave.”
“Light Switch”
“I wrote and produced the record 'STAY' for Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI, so I was in a very fast mood. I wanted to make fast music, that's where this started from. I've always been obsessed with Broadway plays and cartoons—how they would use music to accentuate movements on the stage. If someone's tiptoeing, you hear a pizzicato string. I literally saw a light switch, and I was like, 'What do you do with a light switch? You turn the light switch on.' OK, let's be really corny. And so, 'You turn me on like a light switch' was it. Maybe the Broadway songs stay Broadway songs for a reason.”
“There's a First Time for Everything”
“During the time I was making this song, I was exploring new people, taking part in activities that I had never really partaken in before. I'll say lightly, there's the first time for everything, and you have one life. There was this sense of euphoria in my mind, just knowing that there's an open world out there, and that's what I wanted the record to sonically match.”
“Smells Like Me”
“It's supposed to be the song that you hear in the beginning of a 2000s reality show, like The Hills. It's a very ugly word, 'smells,' and it doesn't sing very well. What sound represents the word 'smells'? So, I just screamed into the microphone and Auto-Tuned that, so it became distorted and robotic. Then came that dreamy arpeggio. It reminded me of The Little Mermaid.”
“Left and Right” featuring Jungkook
“This song is simple. You can't eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant every night. Sometimes you just got to get a burger and fries from McDonald's: three chords, fun, and not about anything super heavy. I loved that dichotomy of how BTS's music is very well-produced, very crispy, very bright, and this song is the opposite. Jung Kook's voice is usually associated with big, bright, powerful K-pop chords, and putting it under that Red Hot Chili Peppers type of bass, grunginess—I really liked that combination.”-
“Loser”
“This song started off with the title. I was in the shower, recalling a time where I felt like I really messed it up with somebody. I thought that I lost them forever. I felt like a loser. I'm a singer living in LA, I'm seeing too many people, and I'm a loser. I followed up with, 'How'd I ever lose her?' And it just happens to rhyme. It sounds like a nursery rhyme that's been around forever. Just a self-deprecating, sad one.”
“When You're Sad I'm Sad”
“This is a song about being manipulated. When you're sad, I'm sad. If you break up with me, and you move on with someone else, and you then come back to me, saying, 'I made a big mistake,' I'm going to forget about all my morals, and I'm going to swallow all my pride with one huge, sodalike gulp, and I'm going to go over to your house. I'm going to console you and comfort you because I am manipulated into loving you.”
“Marks on My Neck”
“I was seeing someone new. I remember waking up the next morning with my neck all bruised up, from some unclipped fingernails. And I'm like, 'Oh, my god. I got to cover this up. I'm driving up to see my parents right now.' We lost touch, so the memory of this person started to fade away, as did the marks on my neck. They started to heal. The parallel is interesting—these marks fade the more my memory fades.”
“Tears on My Piano”
“I remember seeing Bruce Springsteen play Giants Stadium and his audience screaming along. Clarence Clemons played this saxophone solo on 'Jungleland,' and 50,000 fans were screaming, and there were no lyrics. 'One day, I'm going to write a song where people can scream along to the non-existing lyrics, just the melody.' And with that in mind, I came up with the melody, 'These tears on my piano,' where the piano melody would be singable. The piano part almost sounds a little sloppy because my fingers were wet from all the tears falling out of my eyes, hitting the piano.”
“I Don't Think That I Like Her”
“Travis Barker added a really important layer of drums amongst the synthetic drums. It gave the song something that I just wouldn't be able to do on my own. I like a singer singing something and the listener thinking the opposite. Like 'Missing You' by John Waite, where he says, 'I ain't missing you at all/Since you've been gone.' Of course, you're missing this person. You're in denial. I'm in denial on this song, and I wanted to say that without saying that.”
“No More Drama”
“The album starts off bitter and self-correcting. 'No More Drama' is me waving goodbye to all those other 11 songs, sailing on to the next year of my life as a well-seasoned person. I'm ready to move on to the next. It's the perfect ending punctuation for this album.” - source : Apple Music
