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Charlie Puth takes first-ever chance to be ‘incredibly honest’ in his new music<\/p>\n Charlie Puth takes first-ever chance to be ‘incredibly honest’ in his new music<\/p>\n
Charlie Puth has had a busy routine lately from performing the Star-Spangled Banner to open the Super Bowl LX at Levi\u2019s Stadium last month to his fourth and latest studio album, Whatever\u2019s Clever! via Atlantic Records, which dropped today, March 27.<\/p>\n
Billboard reported, that as the pop singer spoke of his album, he mentioned, \u201cI had to take a closer look at myself to make this record and sing about things I normally wouldn\u2019t sing about.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAudiences knew my music more than they knew me because I never really gave them a chance to know me. This is the chance,\u201d Puth revealed.<\/p>\n
The Attention hitmaker\u2019s ambition was to \u201cmake a rich, warm, and big-sounding record.\u201d <\/p>\n
To turn his video into reality, BloodPop came on board as co-producer and to push Puth \u201cto use sonics I hadn\u2019t touched before, to sing about subjects I\u2019d never sung about, and write songs that might\u2019ve made me uncomfortable in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album features assistance from Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, who contribute to the yacht rock song Love In Exile; actor Jeff Goldblum, whose spoken word lyrics are worked into Until It Happens To You. <\/p>\n
This comes after Puth graced the screen with March 26 appearance for a spot on ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he performed album cut Sideways alongside Coco Jones.<\/p>\n
Then, his WHATEVER\u2019S CLEVER! World Tour would kick off on April 22 at San Diego\u2019s Viejas Arena, followed by pan-European concerts in June and July.<\/p>\n
Charlie Puth\u2019s streams top 35 billion, he\u2019s collected nine multi-platinum singles, four Grammy Award nominations, three Billboard Music Awards, a Critic\u2019s Choice Award and a Golden Globe nomination.<\/p>\n
He has also enjoyed a 12-week stint at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his Wiz Khalifa collaboration on 2015\u2019s Fast And Furious hit See You Again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s funny is I don\u2019t consider any of these 12 songs to be clever, I consider them to be real,\u201d Charlie Puth recently told Tom\u00e1s Mier during a sit-down at Blue Note Jazz Club Los Angeles. Whatever\u2019s Clever!, he insists, is \u201cinherently jazzy\u201d and \u201cincredibly honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Puth takes first-ever chance to be ‘incredibly honest’ in his new music Charlie Puth has had a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-350300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}