Charlie Puth just released the first single for his second album, and fans are speculating it's about Bella Thorne. The concept sparked for Puth when, scrolling through Instagram, he had the idea to write about cultural obsessions with attention -- 'everybody uploading pictures, and perfecting their faces,.
Charlie Puth's second album, Voicenotes, is available now. Jimmy Fontaine/Courtesy of the artist If you've flipped through a radio dial recently, there's a good chance you've stumbled on Charlie Puth's voice — maybe on a few stations at once. His song 'Attention' has been everywhere for months; the full album, Voicenotes, is out today. That title is a nod to process: Like many songwriters, when inspiration strikes he'll sing little fragments of melodies into his smartphone. Less common is where he goes from there — writing, recording and producing fleshed-out tracks in a room of his Beverly Hills mansion, where he recently got a visit from Morning Edition. 'I'm so used to doing everything myself,' he tells NPR's David Greene. 'It would be kind of pointless for me to hire an engineer because I would just continuously push them out of the way.'
Puth has been a one-man production house since he was a kid in New Jersey recording songs in his bedroom — and a natural performer since, as an 11-year-old churchgoer, he was called on to fill in for an organist who was out sick. 'My feet couldn't even reach the pedal boards,' he says. 'But I played Christmas masses, like all from memory, because every Sunday I would go to church and hear the same songs over and over.'
YouTube Watching Puth mess around with his sound equipment, it's easy to forget the scale of what he is producing. His first hit, as the hook man on Wiz Khalifa's ',' was featured in a The Fast and the Furious film in 2015; it spent 12 weeks at No. 1 and the video has been streamed more than 3.5 billion times.
'The fame is fun, at times. There are paparazzi and people who are literally just chasing me to make money for themselves — like, what is it, like 500 bucks a picture?
It's probably a hundred bucks for me. But I don't know what the hell is so interesting about me getting coffee,' he says. 'I'm a private person. I like being recognized for my work today, but I don't like being recognized for things that have nothing to do with what I'm showing you right now.' In the lyrics of 'The Way I Am,' which Puth says is the first song he's ever written completely from his own experience, he hints at some of those feelings: 'Maybe I'ma get a little anxious, maybe I'ma get a little shy / 'Cause everybody's trying to be famous, and I'm just trying to find a place to hide.' That place seems to be his cluttered home studio, where he says he's a bit more comfortable than he is onstage. 'I think I like this 10 percent more, just because there's nothing more exciting than the process.
I love making little sounds and putting them into the song,' he says. 'That's fun to me.' Hear the full conversation with NPR's David Greene at the audio link.
. Jacob Kasher Charlie Puth singles chronology ' (2016) ' Attention' (2017) ' (2017) Music video on ' Attention' is a song recorded and produced by American singer. Co-written by Jacob Kasher, the track was released through on April 21, 2017 as the from Puth's second studio album (2018). 'Attention' is a midtempo song with elements of soft-. Commercially, the song was an international success, becoming Puth's 2nd most successful single and has reached number one in Israel, Latvia, and Russia as well as the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Its music video was released on April 24, 2017. Contents. Background and release The original idea of 'Attention' began to develop in 2016 when Puth started to record bits of the song while he was on tour in Japan. Puth premiered the song in an 'immersive music exhibit' in Los Angeles called 'The Attention Room' on April 19.
The pop-up installation features an LED 'infinity tunnel' and is designed to replicate the brain's reaction to receiving attention. Two days later, 'Attention' was officially released as the lead single of Puth's second studio album. Composition 'Attention' is a midtempo song that features elements of soft-. Throughout the song, the singer realizes that his partner only wants to be around him for attention and other ulterior motives instead of loving him for who he is.
It is performed in the key of with a of 100 beats per minute. Puth's vocal span from E♭3 to B♭4.
Critical reception Writing for, Mike Wass suggested that 'Attention' is a 'Song of Summer contender'. He added that Charlie 'is still the boy next door, just a little more jaded and a lot more willing to speak his mind.' Praising the song's production, he said that 'That boldness also comes through on the production, which Charlie handled himself, chugging along with chunky bass and faint traces of disco.' Lars Brandle of described it as 'polished' and 'groove-injected.' Music video The official music video was released on April 24, 2017, on YouTube.
It was filmed in Los Angeles and directed. Cameras capture Puth brooding at the club while scoping out a blond girl, played.
Throughout the song, he realizes that she only wants to be around him for attention and other ulterior motives instead of loving him for who he is. The music video has over 850 million views on YouTube as of November 2018. Promotion The song has been used on its first day of release in a popular Snapchat filter. Puth performed 'Attention' live for the first time on on May 10, 2017. He also performed it on on May 18, 2017. He later performed the song on on the October 10, 2017 episode, then on on October 11, 2017.
Chart performance 'Attention' has peaked at number five on the, making it Puth's third top ten single, his highest-charting as a lead artist, and his first top 5 hit on the chart since '. He also led the Radio Songs all-format airplay chart for four weeks. On, 'Attention' gave Puth his first number-one on this chart as a solo artist in its September 2, 2017 issue, eclipsing 'See You Again,' which peaked at number 3 on this chart in 2015.