Charlie Puth on redirecting his career

if we don't talk anymore we don't talk  anymore we don't talk anymore [Music] singer-songwriter Charlie puth was a musical  prodigy at age six a superstar by 23 then a chance   encounter forced him to rethink everything he's  talking for the record with Tony dekoupil [Music]   if you remember the melody you may also remember  the young man at the piano it's been a long day   without you my friend Charlie puth then just 23  co-wrote and then co-performed with rapper Wiz   Khalifa the 2015 song see you again and I'll tell  you all about it when I see you again it became   became biggest pop hits of the decade spending 12  weeks at number one and getting nearly 6 billion   yes billion views on YouTube launching puth as a  bona fide star run around run around run around   throwing that turtle on my name he followed it up  with two big solo albums full of huge hits [Music] but in early 2020 puth announced that his  much-anticipated third album would be scrapped   because as he put it none of the music felt real  you were a bankable star multi-grammy-nominated   billion stream songs you were touring you were  selling out stadiums so it's a big deal to say   actually stop what was that moment like where you  said no we're not doing this I'll never forget it   I I went to a restaurant in West Hollywood right  when I had decided that I was going to start over   and maitre d came over to me and said Elton John  would like to meet you through a friend the pop   Legend had heard an early version of the album he  said that music you just put out was not very good   and I was like a little taken aback by that  because it's not like I disagreed with him   but it's not every day you get to run into Elton  John at a restaurant and have him tell you exactly   what you were just thinking 10 minutes prior  I gotta imagine that hurt a little bit it did   but it didn't it stung for about two minutes and  then I walked back over to the table and I just   pouring it upward and was like that confirms  everything this is it was a moment that made   Puth think back to falling in love with music  growing up in the New Jersey Shore town of Rumson   his dad was a builder his mom  a music teacher I would wake   up with her playing piano every day  that was the alarm clock her playing we first talked to him back in 2018 sometimes like I think my brain would be musically awake before  I even had breakfast [Music] and we learned that   pretty soon Charlie's parents had realized their  son had a unique gift for memorizing songs I   found it way easier to listen to The Beatles if  I'm playing who knows hello I loved you my 10   year old brain thought I could just listen to the  record and play it back just by hearing it and I   thought that was a normal thing by 10 this musical  prodigy was performing at school and in church   starting with the day the organist didn't show  up I had heard the mass the music so many times hallelujah hallelujah I just played the entire  Mass it's almost like that thing on a plane   was like is there a doctor on the plane but it  was like is there an organist in the church is   there an organist in the church and I raised my  little hand and I my feet didn't even reach the   pedals what gave you the courage to do that in  a room full of adults in God's house I've always   just wanted to save the day and it wasn't just  grown-ups who took note's classmates did too   were you shy I was shy but at the same time  I wasn't when I was in my musical element I   wasn't shy when I was doing a science project I  was very shy but you can walk right on the stage   at church and play the organ or school assembly  yeah because I knew I got it I knew that no one   else was going to be able to do that that day in  the most humble way possible I could say that I   don't think you have to get that humble I just  like making people happy that led Puth to Major   music schools in Boston and New York City  was just working really hard to make a name   for myself and in this community all the while  he was performing his songs First on YouTube then on an actual stage starting right  here at The Bitter End in Manhattan I was   so nervous and I played an hour set and I  had 200 people [Music] wow it's grew [Music]   and on tour with him back in 2018 who  sure seemed to love every second of it but later that year when we met him at his  home in Los Angeles the musician had begun   a pretty serious self-review even after  the Breakaway success of see you again   we had the biggest song in the world I had  to put an album out it was rushed and we had   songwriters who didn't know me or even  talked to me half the time put records   together for me it sounded fine but the  message on those songs meant nothing to   me not long after he decided to pause and  rebuild though the pandemic hit F major   Belgium looking for a new outlet he turned to  Tick-Tock what if this song started off like and then the bass would go  I thought I was gonna teach   people and just produce music for other artists co-writing the number one stay with the kid  Leroi and Justin Bieber I was like okay that's   what I'm gonna do from now on I'm gonna make  other people's dreams come true but I was kind   of lying to myself [Music] instead he started  writing for Charlie puth once again [Music] now   3 three years later the pop star is back with a  wildly popular collaboration with Jungkook of BTS and while Charlie is officially  his third album The now 31 year   old artist says it feels in some ways  like his first I'll be telling the truth   from here on out like you can't lie and write a  song I'll be telling the truth from here on out   sometimes to my detriment but  at least it'll be the truth

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

Views: 310,767

Keywords: CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, news, fame, wiz khalifa, see you again, charlie puth, musician

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Length: 7min 28sec (448 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 11 2022