![]() “I certainly don’t make music for critics,” he says, “but I was agreeing with them when they curbed my first album and they were like, ‘This is the worst music ever.’ I wish I had time to make a better album. He agreed with criticism of his first album, 2016’s Nine Track Mind. I simply am just here, like, not knowing what to do.” “I was really taken aback by that, to be completely honest, and I don’t even honestly know what to say, because it’s not a great situation. “So obviously I’m not even really super-familiar with the situation, but, you know, he is a buddy of mine,” he says. Puth doesn’t know what to make of his friend Adam Levine’s sexting scandal. ![]() I looked at Billy Joel as the cool guy who made classical music in pop music.” I was a dork in middle school and beyond. “I was always so fascinated how Bruce was able on The Rising to combine happy chords, happy sentiment with the dichotomy of what was being sung lyrically - happy and sad at the same time,” he says, adding that “My City of Ruins” helped inspire the chord progression of his first hit, “See You Again.” “And Billy Joel was the living proof that I can be a successful artist and play the piano, which, you know, my friends made fun of me for playing. “I don’t know how good they are,” he says.Įven as a Jersey boy, he can’t choose between his love of Bruce Springsteen (with whom he sometimes exchanges texts) and Billy Joel. Maybe she likes me.” In any case, Puth thinks he was so inexperienced at that point that he’s glad those early songs didn’t come out. “People describe Ellen as rude,” he says. Puth says he’s never discussed any of this with DeGeneres herself, and that he has no problem with her personally. UFOs, a Plane Crash, and Dick Jokes: The Return of Blink-182 I didn’t hear from anybody.” (Sources close to DeGeneres’ team say they don’t recall this happening.) ![]() Not putting any blame on one person, but from a collective… All the people that were in that room, they just disappeared. “But I do agree with him that no one was present, certainly, after the creation of my first demo EP. “We both have different experiences, me versus Greyson,” he says. Greyson Chance recently told Rolling Stone that he felt “abandoned” by DeGeneres (a claim that she disputed), and Puth says that he had his own unpleasant experience at the talk show host’s label. Puth was signed to Ellen DeGeneres’ short-lived record label in 2011 - and it didn’t work out. shit that I don’t understand, where we’re friends, but on the Internet, we’re foes.”) To hear the entire episode, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play above. In the interview, Puth goes deep on the making of Charlie, and much, much more, from writing “Stay” for The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber (and getting pranked by Biebs afterward) to why he still hasn’t figured out if Benny Blanco is serious or not when he insults Puth on TikTok. ![]()
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