Hi I'm Charlie Puth,
and this is Closer. I believe you can
take old genres of music and take old
styles of music and just kinda trick people
into what they're used to hearing. If it weren't
for my Dad, I wouldn't even know what the
genre of R&B is and if it weren't
for my mom I wouldn't know what Folky Americana
Classical Music... and I brought Jazz music onto
myself. I don't know how many piano teachers
have slapped my hand for not reading the
music. I always hated reading the music cause
I always thought it was so much more
fun to listen to various recordings of, you know; I can, I can just
hear the record and play it back from
memory, I guess subconsciously I would change a couple of
notes and the teachers would be like, you know; This girl’s really pretty I'm going to like
that picture. I decide the night before what kind
of song I want to hear and I set it as
my alarm so I'm like pleasantly surprised and
then I light this thing which is Sandalwood and
do this movement, clear the bad energy, I
throw on my Gucci flip flops, kind of
start the day just based off of that.
Let's go, to the studio, first step, turn
on the MIDI keyboard, cool lamps, cool vibes,
candles are usually lit but I'm not feeling
it today, I don't want to light any
candles today. This is literally where everything
is made, I had started Attention, I was on
a train to Tokyo, it just came to
me that I wanted to like write an
orchestral piece like with pizzicato strings, like; and I
heard all of these chord changes and like
this lush orchestra playing so I started, I
took out contact or something and just started
layering strings, so I got back to the
hotel and I replaced the *string sounds*,
with a guitar and I took my phone out and
recorded an E flat, B Flat, E Flat, B Flat, F Sharp,
F, E Flat, B Flat, D Flat, A Flat, D Flat, E Flat, F.
Every song I produce I add my beat box.
*beatboxes* All my music it's
Really exciting right now in my life because
it's all starting to, kind of like come
together, it's all starting to sound like a
vibe where I'm super proud of, of the
um, the old stuff but it was really
me figuring out like where I wanted to
go musically. World exclusive. *music plays* That was stupid. Jazz chords. I have to picture the music video in
my head while I'm making it so when
I'm making this song and I'm hearing
the post chords, I'm picturing people like
at a salsa bar like dancing like you
know, guy twirling a girl around or whatever,
I can't dance for s***, but you know what
I mean. I think I order a shake
every morning, I actually workout you mentioned Adele
before, I saw her working out at the gym
one time which was pretty cool, I like
working out, working out with Adele. I need
a haircut so badly, this is unacceptable. One way I
can use this app on my phone
which is why I'm calling my album
VoiceNotes, is cause every song was made
with the Voice Notes app. I'll do that
and just have fun with it. *music plays* I don't know how
well you can hear that but it's just
like feels like I'm playing with a band,
and I'm the band so I can control,
um I can control everything which is super fun
for me, I get excited just thinking about
it. It's very crazy and I have 8 million
subscribers, I forget that I'm like one of the bigger
YouTubers. Youtube is the reason why I have confidence
to perform on stage because before YouTube I
didn't, I had no, you know basis to perform
in front of people, I didn't want to
because I was too afraid, and YouTube gave
me you know, having growing a fan base
on YouTube gave me the confidence to, go
on stage. I'm really bad at writing
out music notes so I actually just write
the letters out and I have perfect pitch
so I know that, this is an F sharp. Yeah like, you can't deny that this sounds
like so good because it does and
it’s all from these notes here. *music plays* Ohh, it's so like,
just the *sings melody* I want everybody to in places that I
can't like go to overnight, music can reach
them immediately, it's universal in a way that's
not just specific to one region. Australia has
been waiting for me to go to Australia
for a long time but every time I
get ready to go something happens where
it has to get like postponed a month,
and then it gets postponed another month like
when I go to Australia it's going to
be a party, I'm going to like, oh I'm
going to have so much fun, when I
go to Australia. I love like working
with hip-hop producers like Mike Will, just
cause there's no like, there’s no formula it's all just based on
feeling and when you work with guys who
are making music based on what they're feeling
it's usually, it's just like, the music feels
better it doesn't feel so contrived. Where do
I see myself in 10 years? Hopefully just
as happy and motivated as I am right now
and not jaded by any success. I want
to make a boy band, I want to
like produce a record for like a boy band,
like I want to put them together and
like, just see them just dominate the world.
That would be super cool.
