Songwriting Course of, New Music, Bic Marketing campaign

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Peel again Charlie Puth‘s perfect pitch, nine multi-platinum singles and 35 billion+ career streams, and you’ve acquired a man who wholeheartedly lives and breathes music.

The singer, songwriter and producer catches up with The Hollywood Reporter about what he’s been engaged on, life on the go (he travels backwards and forwards between Los Angeles and New York) and his very becoming partnership with Bic pens (he handwrites all his lyrics). He additionally breaks down his inventive course of, backstage must-haves and what he’s most wanting ahead to within the coming months (trace: it entails new music).

Let’s bounce proper in. Tell me about your songwriting course of. Is it at all times the identical or completely different primarily based on the place you’re in life or what you’re writing?

I imply, it’s completely different in every single place as a result of life is completely different day by day. I’ll write completely different sounding music primarily based on the situation. I bear in mind writing “We Don’t Talk Anymore” within the Philippines, and it was a very popular day. It was most likely 100 levels… Fahrenheit, not Celsius (Laughs). I noticed palm timber, and I believed to myself very merely, “I’m going to make a song that feels like vacation, sounds like vacation.” This is earlier than the lyrics have been written, in fact.

And then, “Light Switch,” the music I put out in 2022, was a results of me simply being locked within the studio due to post-COVID instances, and I wished one thing upbeat and quick to sort of get me going as a result of nothing at that cut-off date was. I wished to make one thing that excited me.

Can you elaborate in your bodily writing course of?

I handwrite lyrics. I by no means kind lyrics on my telephone or a pc. It simply feels just like the music isn’t a music if I kind it in — it wants my persona. It’s simply one thing psychological. Bic produces a product that I actually use day by day of my life to make music: the 4-Color Pen. The completely different colours will set off completely different elements of my musical thoughts. So I take it on tour. I take it on airplanes. I take it in every single place I am going. If I don’t like a lyric, I’m going to make use of the colour pink to scratch it out. Red’s dangerous. Green’s my favourite shade. Green means go. That’s often a superb lyric.

Other than your pen, what are your must-have journey objects?

I’m a very fundamental traveler. Bose headphones. I’ve my iPad. I’ve my neck pillow. And there’s this little pocket synthesizer by Teenage Engineering that I exploit. I’ve by no means recorded with it, nevertheless it’s identical to little blips and bleeps… I draft what might be concepts on it.

Side be aware: I simply observed that your Zoom identify is “MusicRocks1991.”

Yeah, you may write that within the article too as a result of music does rock.

I’m totally writing that within the article. OK, so we did journey, however do you could have any backstage necessities?

Several notebooks and pens. I’ve to have a bit of keyboard backstage as nicely as a result of I really feel like generally I can’t discuss. And if I’ve to satisfy a few individuals earlier than I am going on stage, I’ll simply sit behind the little keyboard and play stuff as I’m speaking and I really feel just like the phrases will come out simpler. It truly helps me converse higher. I don’t know what’s flawed with me.

That’s such a inventive individual factor to say.

Yes. I’ve heard individuals describe me as inventive. (Laughs.)

What would you say is the perfect piece of recommendation you’ve ever obtained that you’d give to an aspiring artist?

Best piece of recommendation I ever obtained was to not overthink issues. Don’t re-sing the vocal a bunch of instances. Don’t rewrite the script. Just no matter your intestine is, do it. Multiple folks that I’ve regarded as much as have informed me that, and that’s what I’d proceed to unfold.

How have you learnt whenever you’re performed with a music?

That’s a superb query. When there’s nothing left so as to add to the music, or whenever you attempt to add issues and it doesn’t change it in any respect. There’s a music I wrote referred to as “That’s Hilarious” in 2022, and it’s a quite simple manufacturing, and I used to be listening again to it pondering to myself, “this is too simple; it needs a guitar.” I add it. It feels misplaced. “Okay, well, it doesn’t need a guitar. Maybe it needs another hi-hat.” I add it. It feels bizarre. It feels awkward now. When I take it out, it felt a lot better. I assume, whenever you begin to add issues in and it feels just like the cup’s been stuffed, that’s how you recognize whenever you’re performed with the music.

What else are you engaged on proper now? What are you enthusiastic about within the coming months?

I’m enthusiastic about music on the whole. I can’t share when, however I do plan on placing music out quickly. And when it does come out, I really feel like plenty of query marks are going to be answered. [There will be] plenty of issues that I haven’t sung about. Life for me is far completely different than it was 10 years in the past when “One Call Away” or “See You Again” got here out, so there’s some issues to say.

And I’m always impressed by my environment, each musically and otherworldly, and I simply, I hope I get to do that for the remainder of my life.