Charlie Puth opens up about upcoming album, social media, his relationship with TikTok, and his well-being sex life. Image Source: Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Charlie Puth has thoughts about a lot of things. 

Charlie Puth recently spoke with Bustle about his upcoming album, social media, his relationship with TikTok. Charlie Puth attended Berklee College of Music, published viral YouTube covers that landed him on Ellen, and produced two R&B-pop albums — Nine Track Mind in 2016 and Voicenotes in 2018 — that he says he's only 20% and 60% proud of, respectively.

During the interview, Charlie Puth revealed that when he released his third album in 2019, none of the singles charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and Elton John told him that his tracks were bad, and now that he thinks about it, he says that he was too deferential to trends and too big-name collaborators who he thought knew more than he did. Charlie says that songs that were popular ten years ago may no longer be so, and that, looking back on 2019, he is embarrassed by his musical performance and the fact that he isn't as famous as fucking Harry Styles. At the time, Charlie Puth was going through a traumatic breakup, which he described as like it was a huge ice cream cone with two scoops of shit. 

Charlie added that it helped him understand that he had to take a pause, which he did, and found healing via therapy and worship. The singer also found some solace on TikTok, where his witty and sweetly filthy videos have benefited his public image more than any of his previous songs. In 2003, he remarked, that the internet saved his life, and he believes it did again in 2020. Charlie Puth's characteristic shticks on TikTok show that being a silly shitposter and a musical genius aren't mutually exclusive—in fact, they probably feed each other. In one, Charlie Puth, who has perfect pitch, will recognize the notes in a variety of ordinary sounds, including his car starting up, a guitar falling over, or a dog barking and for the other one, he'll take listeners behind the scenes of his creative process, showing them how he constructs songs from instrumental ideas and random noises.

Katy Perry, who collaborated with Charlie Puth on songs like Small Talk and Harleys in Hawaii, called him a genius and said his strange sense of humor is one of the reasons they get along so well. When it comes to work, Katy says Charlie Puth is a beast in the studio and added that it's almost as if he can read your mind and translate it into a song or feeling, even if you're having trouble explaining it since he's so musically inclined. She went on to say that the artist just has so much access to so much music and would approach it uniquely.

Charlie said that he needed to showcase his personality to his audience, but he was not able to do that because he was surrounded by producers and record label executives who told him that he was a huge act who needed to go away and focus on his art for a while. The singer explains that the pandemic taught him that he does not only needs to do that, but also to do the exact opposite, which is to display every stage of the process. Charlie Puth mentioned during the conversation that he would be more offended if somebody opens up his TikTok and they had no opinion about it or if they were indifferent and added that he wants them to be either very angry about it or in love with it.

Charlie Puth is geared up to release his third album. Image Source: Bustle.

Charlie Puth's third studio album, 'Charlie,' will eventually be released, which he defines as his "first record if he had entire confidence in himself at the very beginning of his career." The first track from it, "Light Switch," is a sexed-up homage to stupid judgments, while the second single, "That's Hilarious," goes far deeper. It's a song about the aftermath of a breakup, and the pain in his voice is palpable.

Charlie Puth claims that in the past, he was advised to hide away and only produce music behind closed doors, with a security guard present at the studio—you don't want anyone hearing this stuff too early—but now it's ready, and he simply wants it to let the world in. Charlie claims that he was taking himself too seriously before discovering TikTok. Charlie Puth shared that he has now understood that certain videos wouldn't do as well as others, and some songs wouldn't be welcomed as well as others and he was able to obtain the information in real-time and it was not like he had 16 million followers, therefore he is going to be fantastic no matter what.