Inspiration comes whenever you least count on it. No one is aware of this higher than Charlie Puth, whose signature candor just lately revealed particulars about his private life we by no means might’ve anticipated. In a June 13 dialog in Interview, the 31-year-old musician spoke concerning the lengths he is prepared to go to in pursuit of the proper observe, admitting he as soon as took a break throughout intercourse to seize an surprising stroke of genius. “I wrote the song in the middle of the act,” he mentioned of his track “Marks on My Neck.”
Puth added, “Maybe I should have focused on the act a little bit more, but the melody just kind of popped into my head and I actually had stopped and recorded a little quick voice note and then had to get back into the act.” (Who says chivalry is lifeless?)
“I wrote the song in the middle of the act.”
Puth went on to elucidate the that means behind “Marks on My Neck,” which appeared on his self-titled album launched final yr. He additionally swore the story wasn’t as dangerous as it could initially appear: “That’s where that melody came from. 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.” No love misplaced. Although, this probably wasn’t how Puth’s muse anticipated to search out out that they had “energetically” impressed the tune to a pop hit.
“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,” he continued. As for his former accomplice? “We went our separate ways.” Now, all that is left is his new sexually charged report and the data that, for Puth, his inventive course of comes first.
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