{"id":351498,"date":"2026-03-28T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:17:08","slug":"coco-jones-joins-charlie-puth-on-sideways-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351498\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Jones Joins Charlie Puth on ‘Sideways’: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pop singer and producer Charlie Puth<\/a> has teamed with Coco Jones<\/a> for his new song \u201cSideways.\u201d It\u2019s lifted from his fourth album,\u00a0Whatever\u2019s Clever! out today (March 27) via Atlantic Records.<\/p>\n

Produced by Puth, alongside BloodPop\u00ae, \u201cSideways\u201d tells a love story worth saving. Puth and Jones\u2019 voices meet over lush instrumentation, where they sing of a couple willing to navigate obstacles together.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if it goes sideways (Sideways) \/ Even if we scream out enough\u2019s enough (Enough\u2019s enough) \/ I believe that we\u2019ll always find a way to weather the storm,\u201d they harmonize in the chorus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI love working with vocalists who can take a song to the next level \u2014 and Coco did just that,\u201d said Puth. \u201cWhen writing \u2018Sideways,\u2019 I wanted to evoke a very cinematic picture through the chords and melody. And this vision came alive the moment Coco sang into the microphone. She is an incredible artist and it\u2019s been a joy to work with her on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones added, \u201cCharlie is such an incredible artist, constantly refining his craft. We had so much fun bringing \u2018Sideways\u2019 to life, and it was such an honor debuting the song at Charlie\u2019s Blue Note show together in Los Angeles. I\u2019m so excited that the world can finally hear it!\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday night (March 26), Puth and Jones performed \u201cSideways\u201d on Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the first time on television.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whatever\u2019s Clever! also includes a collaboration with Ravyn Lenae<\/a>, who appears on the \u201980s-tinged \u201cNew Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on his new album, co-produced by BloodPop\u00ae, Puth said, \u201cI had to take a closer look at myself to make this record and sing about things I normally wouldn\u2019t sing about. Audiences knew my music more than they knew me because I never really gave them a chance to know me. This is the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSideways\u201d arrives a week after Jones released her era-launching single \u201cLuvagirl<\/a>.\u201d The Shae Jacobs-produced track marks her first official release since her debut album, Why Not More?<\/a>\u00a0which dropped in April 2025. The Grammy-nominated project included the No. 1 hit \u201cHere We Go (Uh Oh).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Listen to Charlie Puth and Coco Jones\u2019 \u201cSideways\u201d below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop singer and producer Charlie Puth has teamed with Coco Jones for his new song \u201cSideways.\u201d It\u2019s lifted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[43654,186236,156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-351498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-charlie-puth","tag-coco-jones","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351498","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=351498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}