5 Minutes with Charlie Puth

Charlie Puth talks about his new song "Changes", life as a newlywed and Jillian even gets a lesson from "Professor Puth" about why songs get stuck in our heads.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Charlie Booth is here.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hello, so excited to see you. It's been so long.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It is very very nice, happy to have you here.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, let's get straight to the new music. How long
has it been since you've put out an album?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Three years? Why did that go by so quickly?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
You've been doing a lot, I guess, but I feel
like there has to be less time in between.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, we would prefer that, but let's talk about the
new music and your brand new song changes Changes.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Me and blood Pot made this whole album in a month.
Basically it was a very chaotic musical, like like I
picture an entire orchestra being like shoved in a little box.
I heard the drum beat in a very classic way
and put the piano down, thought about life, made a song.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And with the changes in your life going on personally,
I'm sure that had to do with different feelings, different
different ways of approaching this.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's kind of been all you know.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
It actually started out and like this, it's you. You move,
a friend moves. You're suddenly not spending every day with
each other like you used to. Things have changed and
you don't know why, but it's probably for the best.
That's how it originally started out, and then there's so
many layers to changes. Not my song, well there there

(01:17):
are to my song, but just changes in general. And
I was like, well, that's not the only change in life.
Let's make a three minute song.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And with the new album coming out now, I know
that you're doing these little mini residencies at Blue Note
at the Blue Notes and that's a jazz club.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's a jazz club. So is that I'm living my dream.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right now as you started with jazz music, right like you?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
That was Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
The first concert I ever played was at the Bitter
End in the West Village, a jazz club, and I
remember it was for one hundred people and it took
two three months to sell out, and I was so
excited when it sold out. And now maybe over a
decade later, obviously it sold out much quicker.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So it's it's a very I also feel.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like I'm rusty playing these tiny shows because if you
make a mistake people that I feel like they feel
it and hear it. They're just looking at you. There's
less echo in the room, there's like less smoke and mirrors.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
It's just very raw.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, from a fans perspective, I've never noticed an artist
messing up. I think we're just so excited to see
you on stage. Mess ups are good, we just let
it go.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, yeah, we're I and I embraced the mess up
while making this album. Not everything is sosonically perfect. It's
just it's just real.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's like the.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Album's called whatever is clever, but there's really no clever
song on here. If it maybe that's a cathartic way
of just waving goodbye to an old way of thinking,
we're gonna get really deep right now.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
No. I appreciate the professor Pooth videos on TikTok.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I've learned so much that makes that you have that
that makes me so happy. If I weren't doing this,
i'd probably be a teacher.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, you're so good at it. My mom was a teacher,
so no wonder.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, and I always appreciated when any teacher would come
in and make a valiant effort to make the lesson
super interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, I have a suggestion for a lesson.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Is there a science to a song being catchy, like
a song that we just cannot get out of our head?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, it's usually repetition, which is the number one thing
my mom My, Sharona, my Sharona. I came to dance, dance, dance, dance.
I'm in the clothes, I'm with my hands, hands, hands, hands.
It's repetition always seems to be the way to get
a lyric melody into someone's mind, whether it's the same

(03:44):
melody over and over again, and sometimes people get a
lot of flak for it, but it's it's definitely the
way to It gives you that feeling of like, why
can't I get the song out of my head because
the artist, the producer just sang it ten times in
your ear.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
This makes sense because it's linger for me from the barriers.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Do you have to do? You have to? Oh? I
have to?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, one last thing before I let you go. I'm
a newlywed as well, married a little bit.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Over your gradulate.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Welcome to the club. I got my wife and I
celebrated a year too September. It's the greatest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's crazy, how at least with me, Like when you
find the one person that you are supposed to be with,
that love that you have for them, like my husband Jeff.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
How long have you known Jeff?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Three years?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Wow, I know you've known Brook a very long time.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I've known Brook my whole life. But it's nice.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I feel like I grew up overnight and I yeah,
it's the same feelings that you have for Jeff, I
have the same for for Brooke.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
To double date, let's do it. It's a cool club
to be a part of.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, we're very excited for the new music. Thank you,
Thank you for coming in today, Thanks.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
For playing it. Yeah, I'm getting it. In my first interview,
I'm feeling I'm feeling looser now.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
It's an honor to be your first interview.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, thank you. You're back at it. Appreciate thank you.