If you’ve ever questioned Charlie Puth’s dedication to his craft, now’s the time to put it to bed. Literally. As the artist recently revealed that he once stopped having sex midway through just to jot down a song idea.
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In a conversation with Interview Magazine, Charlie shared that the initial spark for his song, “Marks On My Neck,” came to him “in the middle of the act.”
“Maybe I should have focused on the act a little bit more,” he admitted, “but the melody just kind of popped into my head. I actually had stopped and recorded a little quick voice note and then had to get back into the act,” Puth also went on to reveal. “But that’s where that melody came from.”
Sharing a bit more context about that particular encounter, Charlie said, “I was getting over somebody and what better way to do that than meet new people? It probably wasn’t going to work out with this person and that was what I was energetically picking up, which is OK. It’s all about the experience.”
“I remember waking up and looking at myself in the mirror, noticing these marks on my neck, and every day they’d heal and fade but so would the person who put them on me,” Puth continued. “And we went our separate ways. I’m thankful for the experience and maybe they are as well, but I just thought it was interesting that a person can fade away at the same pace of the scars on your neck.”
Being naked seemed to be one of the common themes throughout Charlie’s conversation with Interview. Determined to be “careful how I choose my words, because I don’t want people to take this the wrong way.” Charlie admitted he’s always “loved being naked” and is no stranger to admiring himself in the mirror from time to time.
“I’m going to be careful how I choose my words because I don’t want people to take this the wrong way,” he said. “Again, I’m not captivated by the way that I look, but I know that I’m not ugly. So sometimes I’d look at myself in the mirror and I’d be like, ‘I really do have kind of a nice butt.’”
“What’s wrong with liking your features?” he asked… “Even today, I woke up and it’s kind of fun to look at yourself naked and admire your body.”
When it comes to his most recently dropped album, Puth did admit he does not “consider the album to be a sexy album.” But rather “a lyrical self-correcting-of-bad-habits record, where I had to force myself out of a bad habit in a not-great relationship and do a lot of self-reflecting and become a better person.”
“This next album, however,” Charlie shared, “now that I’ve grown as a person, the goal is to make the music that’s going to be playing in the background when I do look at myself in the mirror. Because I’ve never made music for myself. I’ve always made it for other artists and I’ve always made it for other people.”
Check out Charlie’s entire conversation with Interview — HERE.
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