Charlie Puth Talks About Making Music with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins

Charlie Puth says working with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins made him realize: "I’m not alone."

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00:00And what did you take away from that experience of working with them?

00:03That I'm not alone. That there are musicians that have been doing it for much longer than I, that have

00:09a very similar approach to chords and implementing all the jazz into pop music.

00:18And I slapped myself on the head. I'm like, Doi, of course, you got all that stuff from the two

00:24people, the two legends that are sitting on your couch writing this song with you right now.

00:29So it's a reminder that I'm not alone.

00:31Did you come in with something that you'd started for that?

00:34No, nothing. I just kind of felt the energy. And Kenny was like, Let Mike play the piano.

00:40Because I was playing something. We weren't really going anywhere with it.

00:43And the two of them were like kids in a candy shop. They had never seen.

00:46Usually you have like when they were making these records, they have the drummer over here and I have the

00:53virtual drum machine in contact.

00:55And they were like, What's, what's that? Like, it's a, it's the sound. It's like addictive drums. It's a, and

01:02they're like, it's a fake drum, but made to sound real.

01:07And they heard it and they were like, That's punchy.

01:10And they heard it and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it

01:10and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it

01:10and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it and they heard it.