00:00I'm Charlie Puth, and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:06There's not many people I would see and cry on the spot. If Britney walked in, I would. Gosh.
00:14Styrofoam reminds me of a Duncan cup. Does Charlie Puth have perfect pitch? No. I bet you don't hear
00:23it everywhere I go. It's become my personality. Yes, I do. It comes in handy with writing songs,
00:30I'd say, other than it being a neat little parlor trick. But I think what it does come in handy for
00:38is hearing the song before it's made, especially when you're working with an artist and you've
00:43written a demo or an idea and they're not rocking with the key, you can kind of change the key in
00:48your head and just get right to it. It kind of speeds things up a little bit, but you don't
00:53need it to make music. I'll say that. Does Charlie Puth use autotune? Yes, and so does everybody else.
01:01And if they say they don't, they're lying. Does Charlie Puth have a twin brother? I do not have
01:07a twin brother, although my brother does look a lot like me. He is actually twins with my sister,
01:14who is my manager. Thanks. Who is Charlie Puth to Taylor Swift? I don't know. You have to get her
01:22to sit down and do one of these. But I really enjoyed that compliment she gave me in that song.
01:29That was very nice. I heard a leak of it, and I thought it was a computer. I thought it was AI,
01:34which I thought was pretty funny. I thought someone was playing a joke on me. But then I
01:38heard it again. I thought it's just too clever to be a robot. And then I just won that day.
01:44Why is Charlie Puth so popular in Korea? I don't know, but I feel very lucky to be so popular
01:50in Korea. I've collaborated with some Korean artists. I love Korea. It has the energy of
01:55New York, where it's a lot of hustle and bustle and a lot of things getting done all at once.
02:02But it's not in New York. It's like on the complete other side of the planet.
02:06Charlie Puth keyboard. I'm assuming they're asking what keyboard I use a lot, and that would be
02:13a keyboard called the Triton by Korg. And I play a Steinway Baby Grand on tour. I think a good
02:21keyboard can bring out any singer's voice, especially a real one, especially with some
02:26good chords under it too. Can Charlie Puth dance? No. Just do a quick YouTube search of me trying to
02:34move around on tour. They once got me a movement coach. Just horrible, horrible mistake because
02:42I think I'm pretty intellectual and I tend to think things over many, many times, which works
02:48when making a song because you're not dancing, or at least I'm not dancing. But to dance, you kind
02:54of have to be free with your body, I'm told. And I mean, look at me. So no, Charlie Puth cannot
03:03dance, but I think that's a good thing. When is Charlie Puth birthday? Not grammatically correct,
03:10but that's okay. My birthday is December 2nd. Sagittarius. I share my birthday with the Queen
03:18Britney Spears. There's a reason why I make pop music. There's not many people I would see and
03:23cry on the spot. If Britney walked in, I wouldn't. Gosh. Is Charlie Puth still making music? Yes.
03:32I mean, well, I finished filming a TV show. Now I have a TV show because in 2020, when they said
03:38that live music was dead, I thought I wasn't going to be able to make music anymore. So I made a TV
03:43show. I started writing a TV show. And four years later, it's finally here. It's called The Charlie
03:49Puth Show. It's got my friends that I've known for 10 years and new friends like Will Ferrell and
03:56Courtney Cox. And it's basically about me being a multi hyphenate in the ever-changing music
04:03industry, the constant pressure of remaining in the zeitgeist. And I'm just making fun of myself
04:08the entire show. If you don't like me, you should watch the show because I'm literally making fun of
04:13myself the entire time. Charlie Puth duets. I've had some duets. My favorite duet is We Don't Talk
04:20Anymore with Selena Gomez. I remember where I was when I made the song. We started it in Miami and
04:27took it all the way to the Philippines. So sonically, it has an innate tropical-ness in it,
04:34I think, which was a thing in 2016. But I love that song. I just got back from Brazil last week,
04:40and I don't even have to sing it on stage. The audience sings it for me, which is a big pleasure.
04:45And the last one, Charlie Puth, Pitchfork. I think they just love me so much there and speak so
04:52highly of me. I think they have pictures of me on their office walls there. They just...
04:57Such lovely, nice things to say about me and my music. Oh my god, the compliments I get about my
05:03music from Pitchfork. It's funny because, like, I just... They're just so right. I am the best.
05:10What was Charlie Puth's... Nervous. First song. My first song, You Will Never Hear,
05:16it was uploaded to MySpace. And if you know how to use an internet archive machine, you can use it,
05:23but you won't be hearing it here.
05:29The first song of mine that gained any traction was See You Again. The biggest song. Totally
05:34the biggest song. Totally frightening for a brand new artist to be just projected into the media at
05:42the time. But I love that song, and I'll play it for the rest of my life. What songs has Charlie
05:49Puth written for others? Not too many songs for others. I actually started out as a songwriter
05:57for other artists. My first cut ever was a Pitbull song. I think it was called Celebrate.
06:04I don't know if it's the best of my work. Stay by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber. I wrote
06:09Slow Motion for Trey Songz. I wrote Harley's in Hawaii by Katy Perry. Fan favorite. But it's all
06:18a blur. I don't really remember. What is See You Again by Charlie Puth about? See You Again is
06:26actually about my friend Vale, who passed in 2012 when we both attended Berklee College of Music.
06:33He always told me that I would write that song. He would describe it, but not musically describe
06:40it. He would just say that it was going to be a song that a lot of people were going to hear.
06:44And it was pretty surreal just two years later writing his song that he said that I would always
06:50write. What Charlie Puth song are you quiz? I don't know if that's grammatically correct.
06:59What does that mean? What Charlie Puth song are you quiz?
07:10I think all of my songs are obviously super personal. There has to be some sort of
07:15innate personality going into these songs with melody for them to sound like me. But I don't know
07:22if I'm as mean as the song Attention or How Long, even though I wrote them. But I guess all of
07:30songs just kind of thrown in a little bowl and mixed up with some Betty Crocker mix. Thank you.
07:36What are Charlie Puth fans called? Now I'm going to get endless shit for this, but I don't think
07:41there's a name for them. I'd like everybody to express themselves and their individuality
07:47separately, but maybe Charlie Puth fans. What songs Charlie Puth sing on tour? Well,
07:56we're actually going on tour later this year, not in the US, but in Asia. And I get to sing
08:02some songs off my second record Voice Notes, which I haven't sung in quite some time along
08:06with the new stuff. But I'm working on the next album now. So next year, you'll hear me sing
08:13all the songs that I'm singing now alone every day. What's with Charlie Puth's eyebrow? It's a
08:20scar. It's not shaved or anything. I can't believe I'm still answering that after all these years,
08:26but it's a scar. What is Charlie Puth's phone number? Obviously not doing that, but I've
08:33changed it a couple of times. So I've gotten that question recently, not on a whiteboard.
08:38Ken Charlie Puth beatbox. Yes. You know what's funny? I was thinking about this the other day.
08:43I didn't write this song. I claim no responsibility for its production or anything, but a good friend
08:48of mine, Johan, produced Dangerous Woman by Ariana Grande. And a couple of years after it came out,
08:54he pointed out that he had taken... When I smack my lips together, it makes a little pretend clap
09:00sound. Kick drum. And he took that, and you can hear it. It's very distinct, but you can hear it
09:07and very low in the mix. You can hear it in the very beginning of Dangerous Woman.
09:11So it's a pleasure spitting all over that song. Is Charlie Puth in a relationship? Yeah,
09:17I just got married. I have a beautiful wife named Brooke, who I've known my entire life. And
09:22what's really cool is that our parents have also known each other. And I've been married
09:28have also known each other for all their lives. So it's two families coming together.
09:34Final question, Charlie Puth playlist. I have a secret playlist, which I have no problem telling
09:41you about. It's called 12am in the back by the kitchen. It's on Spotify. And it's a collection
09:48of all my favorite New York based hip hop artists. And the reason why it's called 12am in the back
09:57by the kitchen is because I was on a date three years ago, and they were playing not great music,
10:02but the restaurant was so cool. And where we were sitting was so cool. And I thought it would be so
10:07great if they had this song, this song, this song, I'll let you check it out. Just Google
10:10that or search it. I don't know how you do that. I thought those were good questions. I'm humbled
10:15that people still want to know things about me, but I don't mind answering those questions.
10:19I it's part of the part of the gig, I guess.
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