“‘See You Again’ took on such a life I don’t think anyone anticipated, and we had to quickly galvanize to capitalize off the momentum.” Puth says the album was rushed, resulting in “a mishmash pile of music,” and he compares hearing it to “flossing with aluminum foil” and “bitten nails on a chalkboard.”ġ0 Songs You Didn't Know Charlie Puth Wrote “Charlie was thrust into the spotlight pretty quickly,” says Dionnee Harper, senior vp marketing for Atlantic Records, who has worked with Puth from the start. “It has the lowest Metacritic rating… ever?” says Puth with a laugh (actually, not quite: the 15th lowest for an album). “I was not happy that people made these assumptions that I was this candy-boy pop-tart artist singing other people’s shit.” Larry Busacca/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Imagesīut the album’s blandly sentimental songs prompted as many eye-rolls as sales. “I made a lot of money off of ‘See You Again’ and will continue to, but it did nothing for me as an artist,” says Puth. The album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and spent 92 weeks on the chart, where, two years later, it periodically resurfaces.
Nine Track Mind, which came in early 2016, positioned him as a piano-playing, blue-eyed soul man with clean-cut good looks at a time when Justin Timberlake was between albums and Robin Thicke was already looking backward at “Blurred Lines” (and its related lawsuit). When “See You Again,” the Furious 7 anthem that served as a tribute to the film’s late star Paul Walker, tied Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” and The Black Eyed Peas‘ “Boom Boom Pow” as the rap song with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Puth hadn’t even released his debut album yet. If I see a group of teenagers, I know they’re probably listening to some kind of hip-hop, and I want to make a pop record that gives them the same emotion they get from ‘Mask Off,'” the hit by Future.
“When I’m on tour, I get a driver and I pretend I live. “I think we secretly like being around normal people - like if we’re near them, we can reach them,” says Puth.
“You know, freshly cut fruits and toilets that greet you when you walk into the bathroom, and Porsches.”Ĭharlie Puth: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shootīut driving around Burbank and Glendale with Kash is also a way for Puth to recapture the feeling he got as a teen making mixtapes for girls.
“Or hang out with Adam Levine, who likes the same things I like.” He grins. “I like to stay in my house a lot,” he says. Since finding fame, he has become a bit of a homebody. With his fluffy shock of hair and lanky 5-foot-11-inch frame clad in head-to-toe athleisure - fluorescent yellow Alexander Wang for Adidas hoodie, Lululemon shorts and leggings - Puth looks more like a tuckered-out high school athlete than a pop star. He completed a three-hour training session with celebrity fitness guru Harley Pasternak, who’s prepping him for his summer headlining tour, and spent another two hours with his allergist. He sings: Never thought I could ever be loyal / To someone other than myself I never thought I could ever be a spoiler / Guess anything is possible with your help / Anything's possible since you made my heart melt / Gave me the best hand that I'd ever been dealt "Forever"īieber's "Forever" hits on the fact that, despite having a past relationship with Gomez, he never knew what he was missing until he and Baldwin gave their romance a second chance shortly after his split from Gomez.Puth - whose own career kicked off with his 2015 smash with Wiz Khalifa, “See You Again,” and now includes “Attention,” his 2017 hit that reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 - has been up since 4 a.m. In "All Around Me," Bieber reflected on how before his relationship with Baldwin, he didn't see himself ever truly committing to someone. He truly opens up on this album about how he found true love with Baldwin, and some of the lyrics referenced his rocky past with Gomez. He continued, "I feel like this is different from my previous albums because of where I'm at with my life."īieber's right.
"I believe that I'm right where I'm suppposed to be and God has me right where he wants me." My past, my mistakes, things that I've been through," he said. In it, he reflected on his past mistakes before announcing an album that would be nothing like his previous work. 24, Bieber released a promo video explaining what was to come in 2020. So as many fans suspected, there are a few lyrics about Selena Gomez on Justin Bieber's album Changes, but not exactly romantic ones. Although Bieber married Hailey Baldwin in September 2018, his high-profile relationship with Selena Gomez was front and center for a big portion of his life in the public eye. The year 2020 is kicking off right and that's with all-new music from Justin Bieber.