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Charlie Puth previews his new album and updates us on life lately during an Audacy Check In at Hard Rock Hotel New York.
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00:00yeah i made probably two albums before this wow they were nice sounding but i just wasn't it just
00:06wasn't like hitting me in the gut right right you're very critical of yourself for sure
00:10all right this is your odyssey check-in at the hard rock hotel new york i am here with charlie
00:19pooth and we have so many things to talk about and we're gonna get to the upcoming album and
00:24the new song but first i i was thinking about this um you know leading up to this interview
00:29i'm actually surprised you don't have your own like record label at this point has that ever been
00:37you're such a fan of music i just imagine you would want to curate this roster of talented people
00:42right i think one day i feel like um i feel like it'd be a bit selfish of me right now because i
00:47have so many goals of my own that if i signed an artist i'd be like okay so you'll be with this
00:53producer this songwriter okay i'm going on tour for two years see you i think when the time is right
00:59i'll do it yeah you would want to be more hands-on with them i think i don't want to just sign
01:03someone and be so caught up in my own career that i don't pay any attention to them so i'm cognizant
01:08of that yeah yeah that's cool that's smart because um you know some some people do end up doing it
01:14prematurely and then i feel like you know the the artists aren't uh getting the mentor that maybe
01:19they'd hoped for not that we're mentioning names but no no no that was a very very general statement
01:25anyway moving on let's talk about the new album uh you know what what would you say was the biggest
01:32risk you took when it comes to uh this new album i like that question that's the biggest risk
01:39was not abandoning that's not the right word but putting to the side my former way
01:48of constructing a song that i had so proudly illustrated on the internet for such a long
01:56time taking the air conditioning and right oh now it's a song i think it became in full transparency
02:02kind of gimmicky for a while and there was a little bit of emotion missing and i realized that
02:09and being challenged to a blood pop the producer my friend that i made the record with kind of
02:15challenged me to have uncomfortable conversations and see like if there's any songs subs any subject
02:24manner that i haven't written about yet that was a that was definitely that that i i resisted it for
02:30a while it took like six months to kind of get my feet wet so because of that were there a lot of
02:35records that were like scrapped that you just yeah i made probably two albums before this wow and i
02:43just it was nice sounding i tell the truth you know i'm the artist that tells the truth but i they
02:50were they were nice sounding but i just wasn't it just wasn't like hitting me in the gut right right
02:54you're very critical of yourself for sure and i think probably at some points it's like to a fault
03:01but i think that's good to you know hold yourself accountable like you know i'm trying to push myself
03:05to the best of my abilities um always yeah i i i know a lot about music but i don't know everything
03:12and i and i feel like and i certainly don't know every way to construct a song and the best way to
03:18learn is by being around people who do things differently and that's how this album came about
03:22so where did changes fall in the uh writing and recording process like where did that come along
03:28well what's so funny is that blood will be designing a game like literally on his windows laptop
03:34doesn't coding a game and i think it's his way of like turning his mind off and he'll he'll take a
03:42break from designing the game then like literally on the other side of the screen pull up uh ableton
03:47and just put together a beat and he put together these like four sounds changes had four sounds it
03:54sounded very like uh computery and until i put the cp70 keyboard down the with the f major chord and then
04:02the c major over f chord which it's just the piano but i put over the very computerized chords
04:08it suddenly became alive and we both looked at each other and we're like oh it's called changes
04:13it's it sounds like a because musically it sounds like a metamorphosis yeah yeah and kind of just it
04:19was like tennis we just like went back and forth and just wrote the song that he added a sound i added
04:24a sound i love it man it sounds so good and the the music video compliments it perfectly i love the
04:29whole aesthetic of you in it i mean this tie here yes man i love it it's so good i gotta at least
04:36dress like a teacher i guess this is in my very hip teacher well thank you this this and this is this
04:41is how a i guess a hip teacher dresses denim on denim on denim yeah i i got my denim denim jacket
04:47somewhere over oh over there so we were you know we're on the same page yeah you were teaching things
04:52i just find whatever's in my closet and just throw it on oh were were you guys in a professional
04:57recording studio or was it done kind of there and kind of you know at the house or what it started
05:03at the house and then we took it to a place called conway on uh in east hollywood um where we recorded
05:12the orchestras the horn section the choir all the people that we couldn't fit in my living room okay so
05:19unless you're doing that do you think there will become a time when professional recording studios are
05:26obsolete no i always feel like there's going to be a reason to have them there's a nostalgic factor
05:34that i don't feel like is going away anytime soon and it's always exciting working at those studios
05:39because you usually and that's a really small studio too so you usually run into other artists
05:44and like i said you get inspired by different creators and and people so it's always fun to run
05:50into them and they come into studio a and listen to what you're working on sure sure it's really
05:54private and and it's nice part of changes is about you becoming a dad at least it could be
06:01uh interpreted that way i guess yes you're the first to get that right right it didn't start that
06:06way and it's not specifically saying anything but you know it's coming with the territory and
06:12everything that's yeah i i think changes is actually about parting ways in a friendship but not
06:21in a bad blood kind of way it's people move on people get older people get married they move
06:27circumstance based it's uh the people you hang out with now are sometimes sometimes unfortunately not
06:36the people you're always going to hang out with right and it's it when i was thinking about that
06:41while i was writing the concept with blood i was like that's not a sad thing nor a happy thing it's
06:47kind of like right in the middle it's uh you might be bummed out but like there might be a really great
06:51thing happening in your life because of it whether it be like a job opportunity or what have you i also
06:57feel like anybody can relate to that yeah and honestly to your point bro there are very few people
07:02you carry with you your entire life that are able to change like at the same time that you know
07:09timeline that you're moving along absolutely well said it's a again it's something anyone can relate to
07:16i've experienced it but when we were filming the music video the song is called changes i'm looking
07:23at brooke she's looking at me and kind of just give each other the look like this should be part of the
07:27announcement when we do decide to announce was she nervous to do it that way not at all because it was
07:32kind of filmed in a stop motion way so it wasn't awkward at all it was a start here and then charlotte
07:39the charlotte rutherford the video director uh was like okay now do this and now do this and yeah yeah
07:44piece it all together like rock paper scissors yeah it was uh so it's very everyone made us feel
07:49very comfortable good do you think having a child because i know you've talked in the past like no
07:54matter what you're doing you feel like your mind could somewhere be somewhere else like even when you
07:59were getting married you were thinking about music and creating um do you feel like a child is gonna
08:04calm your mind and and maybe make you more present yeah absolutely and being present is how i make in my
08:12opinion my best work i used to have this incorrect thought process that i had to have um a chaotic
08:19life in the background to make good art couldn't be more wrong and mold and a lot of artists have said
08:26that too yeah it's um it's interesting how uh because i guess from the outside in you look at an artist
08:30you think oh that's a rock star he or she must be going really going through something to write x y and
08:37z but they might actually be the happiest they've ever been at least for me i've made the best work
08:42just the happiest i've ever been and i feel like i am the happiest i've ever been and having a baby
08:48will just add to that absolutely man do you think if your mom didn't introduce you to music at a young
08:54age and and kind of uh cultivate that that relationship do you think it still would have found
08:59you regardless it's hard to say i think i i i just i i can't imagine my life without music yeah maybe i
09:08would have um my dad builds houses and i i love that too and i'm very like i admire what he does
09:15so maybe i would have gone that route yeah but i don't know it's very hard for me to imagine life
09:19without music or art in some way sure that's why i think it's so funny that you married somebody that
09:25could like care less about oh she doesn't care at all about music she likes olivia dean
09:31yeah dua lipa and she likes the song latch by sam smith but the acoustic version bro she's expanded
09:38though olivia dean like i love that oh yeah olivia dean and my wife called it she very very early on
09:45when like olivia dean had like like one song out she was like this girl's gonna be a superstar and now
09:51she is yeah yeah well i i imagine you're gonna be tasked with uh curating the the birthing
09:57playlist the push playlist so make sure you put olivia dean on there then i don't think the thing
10:02is i don't think i think brooke's gonna want silence brooke when we're driving i'll i'm blasting
10:09i'm blasting like riley like by o'reilly you know that's not like juicy jay that came off his mixtape
10:15in 2011 yeah um not playing on honesty but yeah i i make it like at 110 and she was like please turn
10:23this down because i got a real banging sound system in my car yeah yeah i like paid extra for like the
10:28subwoofer yeah she she did not appreciate that that is so funny man i think you're spot on you're
10:33very in tune with it with your wife because my my wife also wanted silence and for me to be out of
10:40the way for the most part you know yeah yeah yeah it's it's funny how but brooke and i get along
10:46better than anybody yeah we're kind of different in that in that way i love that two things before
10:51we wrap brother um is there a lyric a line on the new album that you're most proud of i don't know if
10:56you could share that with me but well i think i think it's specifically in changes um like what
11:03there's been some changes in our life i can feel the distance because of space and time
11:06yeah there's yes there's distance because maybe you haven't seen each other in a long time the
11:11space in between um uh i can feel the distance space how does my song go space and just like
11:18literal and also has made every has it's made everything different i think rhyming the different
11:23and changes which when you say changes against different they don't they don't rhyme at all right
11:27right it's like kind of like a loose rhyme but like you you hear everything it's a complete
11:32sentence i was i was proud of that course yes yes very eminem of you right yeah
11:36i'm not as good i'm no eminem and lastly do you have a favorite song on the new taylor swift album
11:43i love father figure because because i because i love george michael yes yes and um yeah i love
11:52max martin and shellback they're good friends of mine yeah i think they did a phenomenal job on that
11:56totally that record and i loved i love that she shared she shared um behind the scenes of uh making
12:02that record too yeah we're so excited for you man it's always a pleasure when you pop in here
12:06uh congratulations and thank you for taking out the time anything y'all need from me i'm always happy
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