{"id":83929,"date":"2025-10-17T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:11:08","slug":"charlie-puth-drops-changes-announces-new-album-whatevers-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83929\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Puth Drops ‘Changes,’ Announces New Album, ‘Whatever’s Clever’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCharlie Puth<\/a> dances with claymation instruments and appears to hint at fatherhood in the new music video for \u201cChanges,\u201d the first offering<\/a> from the singer-songwriter\u2019s next album, Whatever\u2019s Clever!.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChanges\u201d is a pure hit of super polished Eighties pop delight, filled with prickly guitar lines, glossy keys, gated snares, and a booming choir to help bring home the final chorus: \u201cThere\u2019s been some changes in our life\/I can feel the distance, space and time\/Made everything different, day and night\/Everything has changed but I don\u2019t know why.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe accompanying video, directed by Charlotte Rutherford, fittingly harkens back to videos of the same era, as Puth embarks on a goofy adventure through a pre-digital world filled with charming claymation figurines and old-school stop motion effects. Puth\u2019s wife, Brooke Sansone, also makes a cameo in the clip, and at one point, the couple touches Sansone\u2019s belly, ostensibly hinting at a very big change on the way: The couple\u2019s first child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhatever\u2019s Clever!\u00a0is set to arrive on March 6, 2026, via Atlantic Records. Puth co-produced the album with BloodPop, best known for his work with Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Beyonc\u00e9, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhatever\u2019s Clever! will be Puth\u2019s fourth album and first since 2022\u2019s Charlie<\/a>. While \u201cChanges\u201d will definitely appear on the record, a full track list hasn\u2019t been revealed yet, so it\u2019s unclear if the album will also feature some of Puth\u2019s other singles from the past few years, including \u201cThat\u2019s Not How This Works,\u201d<\/a> \u201cLipstick,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cHero.\u201d<\/a> (Last year, Puth also dropped a one-off holiday song, \u201cDecember 25th,\u201d<\/a> which he said he wrote \u201con a whim\u201d while working on Whatever\u2019s Clever!)<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, Puth debuted \u201cChanges,\u201d and a few other songs, at a four-night residency<\/a> at New York\u2019s Blue Note Jazz Club (with one show featuring a cameo from one of Puth\u2019s songwriting heroes, Kenneth \u201cBabyface\u201d Edmonds). Puth will kick off a similar solid-out run at the Blue Note in Los Angeles tonight, Oct. 16, with shows scheduled through Oct. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Puth dances with claymation instruments and appears to hint at fatherhood in the new music video for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[43654,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-83929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-charlie-puth","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83929","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=83929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}