Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On her latest album, Taylor Swift “declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.” No one was more surprised by this than Charlie Puth himself: the singer, pianist, and songwriter whose career has always straddled pop stardom and behind the scenes anonymity. After three albums, billions of streams, and numerous songwriting credits – including one on the award-winning number one track “Stay” from the Kid Laroi – Puth has been busier than ever. His new song “Hero” comes on the heels of the Swift mention, and takes him in a new direction, with acoustic guitars and hushed, contemplative vocals. On the heels of this song’s release, Nate sat down with Charlie Puth himself at Conway Studios in Hollywood to discuss the new track, aided by a piano and all of “Hero”’s isolated stems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First thing in the morning, as soon as you wake up, the to-do list starts.
0:05.0	Does the car need gas? Hopefully those leftovers are still good.
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0:50.0	Welcome to Switched on pop. I'm musicologist Nate Sloane.
0:53.6	When Taylor Swift released her song, The Tortured Poets Department, it had a line that
0:58.8	few saw coming.
1:00.1	You smoked them eight seven bars of chocolate. We declared Charlie Pooth should be a bigger artist.
1:09.0	We declared Charlie Pooth should be a bigger artist.
1:13.0	And no one was more surprised to hear this than Charlie Puth himself.
1:17.6	The singer, pianist, and songwriter whose career has always straddled pop stardom and behind the scenes anonymity.
1:25.6	Even his breakout track 2015's See You Again with Wiz Khalifa wasn't supposed to
1:31.9	feature his voice.
1:32.8	He wrote the song intending for someone else to perform it, like Sam Smith or Chris Brown,
1:37.5	but in the end his vocals were chosen and the song landed on the soundtrack to Furious Seven and became inescapable.
2:00.0	But that hit led to his first album, Nine Track Mind, and more inescapable bops like his duet with
2:06.4	Selina Gomez, We Don't Talk Anymore. His next album, Voice Notes, Doug's Deuth's deeper,
2:15.0	We don't talk anymore like we use to do.
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