Charlie Puth has revealed he cried after hearing Taylor Swift namecheck him in the title track for her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. One of the most talked-about lyrics on the pop star’s record-breaking 11th album is when she sings: “You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate/ We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.” The mention of Puth sent Swifties (Swift fans) flocking to his social media to congratulate him for being mentioned on their favourite artist’s new album.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Puth – known for singles “Attention” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore” – said he first heard about the shout-out through a friend after Swift’s album leaked online. “My brain immediately went to, ‘Oh, like in an interview or something. That’s cool.
I love Taylor Swift,”’ he said. He then told the magazine he questioned if artificial intelligence had been used to make the song, saying he thought: “I’m going to wake up tomorrow and it was just a big joke that someone was playing on me because someone thinks I shouldn’t be a bigger artist, so get the biggest artist since the Beatles to say that I should be a bigger artist. Ha ha ha.
” It was only when the album officially came out in April that he believed it was real. “My first thought was like, ‘Wow. She said my name.
’ She kind of said it like P-O-O-T-H”, he said. “And I just cried, dude.” The 32-year-old singer said the name check gave him.
