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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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00:00all right this is your odyssey check-in at the hard rock hotel new york i am here with charlie
00:07pooth and we have so many things to talk about and we're gonna get to the upcoming album and
00:13the the new song but first i i was thinking about this um you know leading up to this interview
00:18i'm actually surprised you don't have your own like record label at this point has that ever
00:25been you're such a fan of music i just imagine you would want to curate this roster of talented
00:31people right i think one day i feel like um i feel like it'd be a bit selfish of me right now
00:36because i have so many goals of my own that if i signed an artist i'd be like okay so you'll be
00:41with this producer this songwriter okay i'm going on tour for two years see you i think when the time
00:47is right i'll do it yeah you would want to be more hands-on with them i think yeah i don't want to
00:51just sign someone and be so caught up in my own career that i don't pay any attention to them so
00:56i'm cognizant of that yeah yeah that's cool that's smart because um you know some some people do end
01:02up doing it prematurely and then i feel like you know the the artists aren't uh getting the mentor
01:07that maybe they'd hoped for not that we're mentioning names but no no no that was a very
01:12very general statement anyway moving on let's talk about the new album uh you know what what would
01:20you say was the biggest risk you took when it comes to uh this new album i like that question
01:26that's the biggest risk was not abandoning that's not the right word but putting to the side my
01:35former way of constructing a song that i had so proudly illustrated on the internet for such a long
01:45time taking the air conditioning and right oh now it's a song i think it became in full transparency
01:51kind of gimmicky for a while and there was a little bit of a emotion missing and i realized that and
01:58being challenged to a blood pop the producer my friend that i made the record with kind of challenged
02:04me to have uncomfortable conversations and see like if there's any songs so any subject matter that i
02:13haven't written about yet that was a that was definitely that that i i resisted it for a while
02:19it took like six months to kind of get my feet wet so because of that were there a lot of records that
02:24were like scrapped that you just yeah i i made probably two albums before this wow and i just it was
02:33nice sounding i tell the truth you know i'm an artist that tells the truth but i they were they were
02:39nice sounding but i just wasn't it just wasn't like hitting me in the gut right right you're very
02:44critical of yourself for sure and i think probably at some points it's like to a fault but i think
02:50that's good to you know hold yourself accountable like you know i'm trying to push myself to the
02:54best of my abilities um always yeah i i i know a lot about music but i don't know everything and i and i
03:01feel like and i certainly don't know every way to construct a song and the best way to learn is by being
03:07around people who do things differently and that's how this album came about so where did changes fall
03:13in the uh writing and recording process like where did that come along well what's so funny is that
03:18blood will be designing a game like literally on his windows laptop doesn't coding a game and i think
03:25it's his way of like turning his mind off and he'll he'll take a break from designing the game then
03:32like literally on the other side of the screen pull up uh ableton and just put together a beat
03:38and he put together these like four sounds changes had four sounds it sounded very like uh computery
03:44and until i put the cp70 keyboard down the with the f major chord and then the c major over f chord
03:53which it's just the piano what i put over the very computerized chords it suddenly became alive and we
04:00both looked at each other and we're like oh it's called changes it's it sounds like a because
04:04musically it sounds like a metamorphosis yeah yeah and kind of just it was like tennis we just like
04:09went back and forth and just wrote the song that he added a sound i added a sound i love it man it
04:14sounds so good and the the music video compliments it perfectly i love the whole aesthetic of you in it
04:20i mean this tie here yes man i love it it's so good i gotta at least dress like a teacher i guess
04:26this is in my very hip teacher well thank you this this and this is this is how a i guess a hip
04:31teacher dresses denim on denim on denim yeah i i got my denim denim jacket somewhere over oh over there
04:37so we were you know we're on the same page yeah you were teaching things i just find whatever's in
04:42my closet and just throw it on oh were were you guys in a professional recording studio or was it
04:48done kind of there and kind of you know at the house or what it started at the house and then we took
04:54it to a place called conway on uh in east hollywood um where we recorded the orchestras the horn section
05:02the choir all the people that we couldn't fit in my living room okay so unless you're doing that
05:09do you think there will become a time when professional recording studios are obsolete
05:15no i always feel like there's going to be a reason to have them there's a nostalgic factor that i don't
05:23feel like is going away anytime soon and it's always exciting working at those studios because
05:29you usually and that's a really small studio too so you usually run into other artists and
05:33like i said you get inspired by different creators and and people so it's always fun to run into them
05:39and they come into studio a and listen to what you're working on sure sure it's really private and
05:43it's nice part of changes is about you becoming a dad at least it could be
05:48uh interpreted that way i guess yes you're the first to get that right right it didn't start
05:54that way and it's not specifically saying anything but you know it's coming with the territory and
06:00everything that's yeah i i think changes is actually about parting ways in a friendship but not in a bad
06:10blood kind of way it's people move on people get older people get married they move circumstance
06:17space it's uh the people you hang out with now are sometimes sometimes unfortunately not the people
06:25you're always going to hang out with right and it's it when i was thinking about that while i was
06:30writing the concept with blood i was like that's not a sad thing nor a happy thing it's kind of like
06:36right in the middle it's uh you might be bummed out but like there might be a really great thing
06:40happening in your life because of it whether it be like a job opportunity or what have you i also feel
06:45like anybody can relate to that yeah and honestly to your point bro there are very few people you
06:52carry with you your entire life that are able to change like at the same time that you know timeline
06:58that you're moving along absolutely well said it's a again it's something anyone can relate to i've
07:05experienced it but when we were filming the music video the song is called changes i'm looking at
07:12brooke she's looking at me and kind of just give each other to look like this should be part of the
07:15announcement when we do decide to announce was she nervous to do it that way not at all because it was
07:21kind of filmed in a stop motion way so it wasn't awkward at all it was a start here and then charlotte
07:27the charlotte rutherford the video director uh was like okay now do this and now do this and yeah yeah
07:33piece it all together like rock paper scissors yeah it was uh so it's very everyone made us feel very
07:38comfortable good do you think having a child because i know you've talked in the past like
07:42no matter what you're doing you feel like your mind could somewhere be somewhere else like even
07:47when you were getting married you were thinking about music and creating um do you feel like a child
07:52is gonna calm your mind and and maybe make you more present yeah absolutely and being present is how
08:00i make in my opinion my best work i used to have this incorrect thought process that i had to have
08:06um a chaotic life in the background to make good art couldn't be more wrong and mold and a lot of
08:14artists have said that too yeah it's um it's interesting how uh because i guess from the
08:18outside in you look at an artist you think oh that's a rock star he or she must be going really
08:23going through something to write x y and z but they might actually be the happiest they've ever been at
08:29least for me i've made the best work just the happiest i've ever been and i feel like i am the
08:34happiest i've ever been and having a baby will just add to that absolutely man do you think if
08:39your mom didn't introduce you to music at a young age and and kind of uh cultivate that that relationship
08:46do you think it still would have found you regardless it's hard to say i think i i i just
08:53i i can't imagine my life without music yeah maybe i would have um my dad builds houses and i
09:00i love that too and i'm very like i admire what he does so maybe i would have gone that route yeah
09:05but i don't know it's very hard for me to imagine life without music or art in some way sure that's
09:11why i think it's so funny that you married somebody that could like care less about oh she doesn't care
09:17at all about music she likes olivia dean yeah dua lipa and she likes the song latch by sam smith but
09:24the acoustic version bro she's expanded though olivia dean like i love that oh yeah olivia
09:30dean and my wife called it she very very early on when like olivia dean had like like one song out
09:38she was like this girl's gonna be a superstar and now she is yeah yeah well i i imagine you're gonna
09:43be tasked with uh curating the the birthing playlist the push playlist so make sure you put olivia dean on
09:49there then i don't think the thing is i don't think i think brooke's gonna want silence brooke
09:54like when we're driving i'll i'm blasting i'm blasting like riley like by o'reilly you know
10:01that's not like jcj that came off this mixtape in 2011 um not playing on odyssey but yeah i i make
10:09it like at 110 and she was like please turn this down because i got a real banging sound system in
10:14my car yeah yeah i like paid extra for like the subwoofer yeah she she did not appreciate that
10:19that is so funny man i think you're spot on you're very in tune with it with your wife because my my
10:25wife also wanted silence and for me to be out of the way for the most part you know yeah yeah yeah it's
10:31it's funny how but brooke and i get along better than anybody yeah we're kind of different in that
10:37in that way i love that two things before we wrap brother um is there a lyric a line on the new album
10:43that you're most proud of i i don't know if you could share that with me but well i think i think
10:47specifically in changes um like what there's been some changes in our life i can feel the distance
10:54because of space and time yeah there's yes there's distance because maybe you haven't seen each other
10:59in a long time the space in between um uh i can feel the distance space how does my song go space and
11:06just like literal and also has made every has it's made everything different i think rhyming the
11:11different and changes which when you say changes against different if they don't they don't rhyme
11:15at all right right it's like kind of like a loose rhyme but like you you hear everything it's a
11:20complete sentence i was i was proud of that course yes yes very eminem of you yeah yeah i'm not as
11:26good i'm no eminem and lastly do you have a favorite song on the new taylor swift album i love father
11:34figure because because because i love george michael yes yes and um yeah i love max martin
11:41and shellback they're good friends of mine and i think they did a phenomenal job on that
11:45totally that record and i loved i love that she shared she shared um behind the scenes of uh making
11:50that record too yeah we're so excited for you man it's always a pleasure when you pop in here
11:54uh congratulations and thank you for taking out the time anything y'all need from me i'm always happy
11:59to be here
11:59you
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